I needed to write one more review to reach my goal of a half-cannonball, so here’s a roundup of the books I read and didn’t review this year. Does this still count? Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas. 3 stars. I enjoyed this one, reading it on a 7 hour plane journey. The love triangle was a bit irritating in that the end took a bit of a cop out so that it could be an element in later books, but overall it was […]
Even Peacocks Have Their Uses
Megan Derr is a LGBTQ writer of the whimsical variety. Most of her older works are short stories with fairytale themes. From there she expanded into novel and novellas of a similar motif. Her most recent works have moderns settings but still retain her love for happily ever afters.The High King’s Golden Tongue is a rewrite of an earlier short story with the same name. The plot does not change between the first version and the second but the added bits provide background and make […]
It’s flu season, let’s talk about all the diseases that can kill you…
Now that flu season is in full swing, and our flu shots aren’t doing us much good this year, it’s a good time to talk about all the disgusting diseases that can kill you. But let’s up the stakes and focus on diseases that spread worldwide, we’re talking cholera, Ebola, SARS…pandemic level contagions. Sonia Shah’s book, Pandemic, focuses heavily on cholera, tracking its meager beginnings to its reemergence today. Shah believes that by studying cholera, many other world diseases can be understood. But she doesn’t […]
My #CBR Book Exchange gifts, probably
I am still not 100% sure if these books and the lovely bookmark that arrived in the mail are my CBR Book Exchange gifts, or if they’re part of the Pajiba Krampus gift exchange. However, since both feature on my huge TBR list and that was the one I sent to Katie (thanks again for organising everything), I am going to hope that these are Cannonball gifts. Because Book Depository won’t let you include gift notes, these books were anonymously sent to me – but […]