Cannonball Read 18

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Cheek it out

Uranus Is Full of Gas: Farty Facts about the Cheekiest Planet in the Solar System by Chris Ferrie and Michael Slack

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Uranus Is Full of Gas: Farty Facts about the Cheekiest Planet in the Solar System by Chris Ferrie and illustrated by Michael Slack.  Due February 2027; read via an online reader copy. If you are not familiar with me, let me introduce myself: I am an adult reader who is mentally a 10-year-old boy when it comes to gas, farts and body humor. And when you get a book called: Uranus Is Full of Gas, you know I am not going to look any farter… […]

Can’t wait to see how this connects to The Mercy of the Gods

Livesuit by James S.A. Corey

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I never got into the show The Expanse though I was curious from the buzz and the set pictures. I think I watched two episodes and it just didn’t quite get my attention. I tried the first book that the Prime show is based on, and while it was fine, I also wasn’t in a rush to get back to it, and now it’s been so long, I don’t think I could even pick the series up without a reread. And yet, I wanted to […]

Three extremely different books about space

Otherworldly by Dwain Worrell

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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I’m being lazy and combining these three VERY DIFFERENT BOOKS because Space! I read Otherworldly and Project Hail Mary as ebooks, and Atmosphere as an audiobook. Otherworldly first! So, one of my favorite book genres is space horror. My list of fears (to read or watch a movie / TV show about) is not very long. Deep down in the ocean scares me to bits, and so does outer space. I think they’re similar in that once you’re there, you’re at the mercy of however […]

These (Slow) Burning Stars

These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs

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These Burning Stars, by Bethany Jacobs, is a revenge-driven, bloody, action-heavy space opera. It’s full of political intrigue, social commentary, and gun fights. And I thought it was excellent. It was, however, slow to start for me. In fact, I originally started it several months ago and got a little stuck in the first chapter due to all the unfamiliar terminology. The author doesn’t include a glossary, so it was a bit hard for me to keep track at first. That feeling went away after […]

“I didn’t need any help getting angry, I was great at that on my own.”

Platform Decay by Martha Wells

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Monthly Keyword 26: Decay Thank you to Tor Books and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is out on May 5th, 2026. Murderbot (who has installed a mental health module now, and keeps doing Emotion checks on itself) is on a rescue mission on a large artificial planet controlled mostly by Barish-Estranza. What starts out as needing to find and escort three people from the hostile territory becomes a lot more complicated when Murderbot is forced to agree to locate […]

Current events done fun

Space Chasers V01 by Leland Melvin, Joe Caramagna, and Alison Acton

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The graphic novel Space Chasers V01 by Leland Melvin, Joe Caramagna, and Alison Acton (illustrator) is probably one of the most unbelievable books I have recently read. Oh sure, ages strong 8 and 9 to aged 13 readers are going to LOVE it, because it is about kids and the cool thing they get to do: save the world by screwing up and going to space! Yeah I would have loved this too at that age. I mean, we are kids! I mean we’re awesome! […]



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