Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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One of the Better Bosh Books

Bosh! by Henry Firth, Ian Theasby

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I get books for Christmas, sometimes from myself. Especially if I’m in a favorite indie bookshop. That’s how I ended up taking home two cookbooks, one of which was Bosh!. This is a series I’ve reviewed from before, but I don’t think I’ve done the original, first in the series. Basically, this is a British vegan food Youtube channel (probably; there’s a chance the website plus videos was first) that went viral before that was a thing, and then there were books. The books have […]

Sandwiches of the Past to try in the Future

Sandwiches of History the Cookbook by Barry W. Enderwick

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I recently was on a long road trip to visit family for the holidays from the SouthEast to MidWest. That means a lot of radio time, which means, NPR, Christian pop, or country. I have an extremely limited tolerance for the latter two, so there was a lot of NPR. On NPR I heard an end of year book review sequence, and I had to look up one of the books. It turns out there is a podcast now cookbook on food history that I’d […]

Book Exchange Rules! and food mysteries are mostly fun.

The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai

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Yay for book exchange and holiday travel reading! There was no note, so I’m not sure who to thank, but still, thanks! Nailed that one. Cozy has been having a moment (a trend I’m mostly down with), and The Kamogawa Food Detectives is sort of cozy, but that label doesn’t quite fit. It’s a food based mystery series (in this case, almost a sequence of sort of related short stories; but also there is a sequel) featuring a father-daughter detective agency restaurant, in which the […]

The End of the World As We Know It and Happy New Years

The Little Book of Cosmic Catastrophes (That Could End the World) by Sara Webb

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Full disclosure: this review is not of the first book I finished in 2025. Part of the reason for that is because it didn’t grab me as much as I’d hoped. In theory I figured it might be kind of funny to start off the new year with popular science book on the beginning and the ending of our universe, The Little Book of Cosmic Catastrophes (That Could End the World). Basically, it’s astronomy with some physics in relatively common language. The first section covers […]

The Almost Perfect Last Book to Review for a Last Review of the Year

The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso

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The Last Hour Between Worlds might just be the perfect New Years read; it’s almost cozy, it’s fantasy, it’s got a touch of romance, it takes place during a New Year’s Eve party, the characters are pretty interesting, the world is interesting, and it’s mostly just a fun read. The Last Hour Between Worlds features a new mom at a New Year’s Eve party trying to relax her totally exhausted self, but she gets pulled into trouble that happens to fit her profession (but she’s […]

Oatmeal Can Be Predictable and Interesting at the Same Time

OATrageous Oatmeals by Kathy Hester

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So the only reason I found OATrageous Oatmeals is because I was at my usual used/new bookshop selling my annual purge of my shelves and while the buyer was going through the suitcase full of books, I browsed. I like cookbooks and plant-based cooking though I’m not actually vegan in practice, and I’d kind of been craving oatmeal. Perfect timing for the book I didn’t know I needed. For an impulse buy, this actually turned out pretty well. The first half is, as you would […]



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