Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Silly, Funny, Worth Your Time

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by M.T. Anderson & Eugene Yelchin

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CBR Bingo: Friendship What a wonderful little book, and perfect for the Friendship square in Bingo. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge takes place in a world where elves and goblins live in neighboring countries with an uneasy truce after centuries of war and invasions. It begins with the elfin historian, Brangwain Spurge, on a mission to goblin country to offer a gift to the goblin king. He also has a second, secret mission–to spy on the goblins and report back to elfin high command. When […]

Thank you, ElCicco!

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Thank you to my fellow Ellen! I’m so excited to try the treats and to read Yvain: The Knight of the Lion! PLUS to have my own copy of the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy. . . *sighs with happiness* And look how cutely everything came packaged! Thank you, thank you, thank you, and happy holidays!

Goblins, Elves and Diplomacy

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by MT Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

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How to describe The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge? According to writer MT Anderson it’s “…a tragic meditation on how societies that have been trained to hate each other for generations can actually come to see eye to eye.” But is it?  According to illustrator Eugene Yelchin, “A crazy story about two fools blinded by propaganda is not a tragedy. It’s a comedy.” Who’s correct? Well, both are. This National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature is a story of political intrigue and espionage, and […]

Wall-E + The Fault in Our Stars? (A review in which I am right and my husband is stupid.)

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I loved this book and read it in a few days. I enthusiastically recommended it to my husband, who also enjoys YA dystopia, and was bewildered when he was not that into it. I thought it was scary and sad and funny and nuanced and infuriating. He thinks, so far, that it’s dumb and poorly written. This was turning into the book equivalent of The Dress so I turned to Goodreads to decide who was right because obviously that is a quantifiable right/wrong thing and […]



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