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Belated Thanks (Cannonball 8 Book Exchange)
Before it becomes way to late to express my gratitude, I want to thank Alexis for the awesome books she sent as part of the Cannonball 8 Book exchange. Winger by Andrew Smith and Uprooted by Naomi Novik have been on my TBR list and high up at that. Now I have a good excuse to bump them all the way to the top. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson is new to me, but I’m always looking for new fantasy series to jump […]
A Superhero Thriller that Doesn’t Take Itself too Seriously
This book is up there with Ready Player One and Lock In in terms of future and technology themes. It’s also similar to Mission Impossible and X-Men, among others. Basically, Myfanwy (rhymes with Tiffany), wakes up with no memory. Oh, and there’s dead people all around. But she finds clues to her situation in notes left by…herself? Or whoever was in her body before her? Still not clear on that. Myfanwy learns right away she can take the equivalent of the blue pill or the […]
A Wonderfully Tragic Tale of a Fateful Trip…
I went into this book thinking it was going to be a lifetime movie throwaway. While Lifetime would probably salivate over this one, I was pleasantly surprised by the story as a whole. It’s a castaway story with a little before, but mostly during and aftermath kind of stuff. We follow two individuals who have endured a harrowing plane crash and Gilligan’s Island scenario, and switch between their now and events on the island. Bleeker did a great job of writing…life. She didn’t allow her […]