Cannonball Read 18

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One of the best books I’ll read this year

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

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#CBR12 Bingo: I Wish (Travelling anywhere right now seems like an utter impossibility, but I would love to be able to hang out on Marsyas Island with its cast of unique residents) Linus Baker does not live an exciting or interesting life. When he’s not visiting orphanages and checking up on children and teens with unusual abilities or magical powers, he sits in his utterly anonymous cubicle and writes detailed and thorough reports. He goes home to his non-descript little house, occasionally exchanges words with his […]

Warm Fuzzy Feelings

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

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I have been very vocal in the last few months on the fact that the current cultural zeitgeist is that dark equal deep and that the entertainment we consume has no place left for complex emotions like joy, sweetness and even melancholy (the good kind). This was further aggravated by the discourse around The Last of Us II, and how it forces the player to commit cruel acts for the sake of trying to create a complex story.  I also spent most of the last […]

Hungry like the wolf

Wolfsong by T.J. Klune

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Official book description: Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. He said that Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. Ox was sixteen when he met the boy on the road. The little boy who talked and talked and talked. Ox found out later the little boy hadn’t spoken in almost two years before that day, and that the little boy belonged to a family who had moved into the house at the end […]



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