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The Girls Get their Turn

Stormsong by C. L. Polk

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Bingo review 4: Violet Stormsong is the second of what is planned to be a trilogy, and the covers are apparently going to reflect the bisexual pride flag; book 1 was blue (Witchmark), book 2 is purple (aka violet), and the to-be-released-Feb ‘21 book 3 (Soulstar) will be pink. Stormsong is the second of what is planned to be a trilogy, and the covers are apparently going to reflect the bisexual flag; book 1 was blue (Witchmark), book 2 is purple (aka violet), and the […]

Heavy on the 90s Music Nostalgia

Heavy Vinyl: Y2K-0! by Carly Usdin

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Bingo Square 1: Music Heavy Vinyl: Y2K-O! could actually have fit more than one square, but I wanted to start in a corner, and Music is what I’d slotted it for, so this is where it all starts. This is book 2 in a graphic novel series that is set in a music store, whose employees form a band and compete in a battle of the bands, and who investigate wrong-doing or dishonesty in the music business. I liked volume 1 but I think either […]

Happy Pride Month!

Check, Please! Vol. 2 by Ngozi Ukazu

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I have posted my review of Check, Please! Vol 1 here: https://cannonballread.com/2019/02/check-please-debcapsfan/. Check Please Vol 2 continues the story of Eric “Bitty” Bittle in his Junior and Senior years at Samwell. When we last left our hero, his boyfriend, Jack, has graduated and is playing in the NHL for Seattle’s expansion team. Jack is a professional player, and they are keeping their relationship quiet. But slowly, Jack and Bitty reveal themselves to the hockey team at Samwell, and Jack’s teammates, and finally to Bitty’s parents. […]

A murder mystery in the heart of a space opera

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

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I brought this book home in March 2019.  It was Mysterious Galaxy’s featured speculative fiction hardcover pick for the month.  Over the past year this book kept getting recommended; by fellow Cannonballers, articles, and it is nominated for a Hugo award.  That nomination finally pushed A Memory Called Empire to the top of my TBR. In a normal timeline, I would have torn through this book in a matter of days.  Instead it took a few weeks.  This book pushed all the right buttons; excellent sci-fi world […]

“Missing you is profoundly inconvenient, I’ll have you know. I have things to do and places to be, and all the while I’ll feel like I’ve mislaid a piece of my soul and I won’t get it back until I see you again. That can’t be normal.”

The Ruin of a Rake by Cat Sebastian

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I should have read this one much closer to the previous two in the series, The Soldier’s Scoundrel and The Lawrence Brown Affair because so many of our previous characters reappear here and are woven into the plot. As a reader you can tell that Sebastian was getting more comfortable in her writing, overall, this book is stronger than the previous two, even if Sebastian shortchanges the plot a smidge in the final third. I continue to really like how Cat Sebastian builds her stories: […]



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