Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I should read more Susanna Kearsley

The King's Messenger by Susanna Kearsley

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StoryGraph Easy Reading Challenge 2025: All Alone – Read a stand-alone book Thanks to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for this ARC. My opinions are my own. It is 1613 and Prince Henry, James I’s eldest son and heir has tragically died. Rumours whisper that it might not have been by natural causes. Queen Anna is distraught, and King James is determined to punish the guilty. Andrew Logan is one of the king’s messengers and he’s tasked with going to Scotland to apprehend Sir David Moray, […]

Funny thoughts and melting glaciers

Montana Diary by Whit Taylor

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I had not officially finished Montana Diary by Whit Taylor as I typed this review. And it is only 30-odd pages (another reviewer’s entire review I borrowed:  A (very) short comic about a visit to Montana. A little history, a little nature.). It has taken me two days to get as far as I have. Now, I will say that I am sure Taylor is a lovely person and I would like to sit down and have a cup of tea with them. I would […]

A madcap road trip (with zebras)

Earl Crush by Alexandra Vasti

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3.5 stars Nowhere Books Bingo 25: Book about a road trip or travelling Disclaimer! This was an ARC granted to me from St. Martin’s Press through NetGalley. My opinions are my own. Lydia Hope-Wallace is a wallflower, and perfectly happy to remain so, because she has crippling social anxiety and tends to throw up if forced to interact too much with people outside her immediate family or friends. She’s been secretly writing seditious pamphlets and publishing them anonymously for the past three years, and for […]

Oh It Is Fun!

This Will Be Fun by E.B. Asher

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Old friends reuniting for a royal wedding? How timely! I’m sure everyone will be so glad to see each other again after years of very determined not speaking. Ten years ago best friends Beatrice and Elowen, rogue Clare and the valiant Galwell the Great banded together to save the realm. They succeeded and it ruined their lives. Since then they’ve been burying themselves in their various vices trying to forget the past. But when the queen of Mythria sends you an invitation to her upcoming […]

God gave us horses so we could run away faster.

Prince of Fools: The Red Queen's War #1 by Mark Lawrence

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Cowards divide into two broad groups. Those paralysed by their fear, and those galvanized by it. ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools I’ve always felt that the placement of a man’s testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design. ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools Prince Jalan is the third son of the third son of the queen of Red March. Despite being a long way off from the path of succession, he’s successfully used his title of prince to maximum effectiveness. He’s a gambler, […]

A charming and amusing romp that greatly entertained me, even though I couldn’t care less about birds, and actually sort of fear them

The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love by India Holton

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Smart Bitches Summer Bingo: Only one bed (and horse) CBR16 Bingo: And also… (Repeat of the Bananas square, because this book fits the bill) Beth Pickering is the youngest professor of ornithology at Oxford, and she needs to really impress the faculty if she is to get tenure. She works with wealthy widow Hippolyta Quirm to try to locate and capture rare (and usually dangerous) birds. Just as they are about to capture the coveted deathwhistler, a rival ornithologist, the dashing young Professor Devon Lockley […]



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