Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

This nitwit has a FLEET of guardian angels looking after her

Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman

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Did anybody watch Mad Dogs on Amazon Prime? Something terrible happens, and the whole cast of characters spends the rest of the show making the absolute wrongest decisions whenever they’re presented with a choice, and you spend the whole time yelling at the TV? This book felt like that. Every time Erin said “Hey, let’s do this,” I wanted to yell “NO DON’T!” It was aggravating, but in a fun ‘I couldn’t put it down because how on earth is this going to end’ way. […]

Questing with snakes

Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre

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This one was recommended by fellow Cannonballers/Pajibans when I requested help finding women sci-fi writers, and I am so glad! It was post-apocalyptic and interesting and original. I had read some McIntyre before, but not this one. Snake is a healer, traveling around and helping people in villages that are too small to have their own resident healer. She works with three snakes, using their poison to combat cancers or other diseases, and using the ultra-rare dreamsnake to ease pain until the end in the […]



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