I got a little thrill this year when I told Sherry Thomas on Twitter I was so excited for this book, and she liked my status. The Hollow of Fear is the third book in the Sherry Thomas series. For those who are fans of the slow burn romance between Lord Ingram and Charlotte Holmes, there are heartbreaking and breathtaking moments between those two. If that’s all we got, I would have been satisfied. There’s also a mystery involving Lady Ingram, who suddenly turns up […]
The Movie Was Better
BINGO! Cannonballer Says, Listicles, Cannonbookclub, The Book Was Better?, Home, Something Home (Yay, I did it!) When my husband suggested we go see Crazy Rich Asians, a movie he had heard profiled on NPR, I just about fell out of my chair. We don’t go to the movies together. I think the last one we saw in the theatre together was XMen 3, which came out in 2006. So off we went, and we really loved it. It was funny, and warm, and charming, and […]
This Book Will Fill You With Rage
CBR bingo square, Home, Something Home Jose Andres is a Washington, DC legend. He and a couple of other chefs made my hometown a destination for foodies. His Oyamel, Chila Chilcano, and America Eats Tavern are some of my favorite restaurants. You won’t just eat a fine meal, you’ll be treated like gold. I went to see him speak at the National Archives when he was starting his America Eats Tavern pop up restaurant in Penn Quarter to hear him speak on American food history […]
Come for the Misogyny, Stay for the Anti-Semitism
So…I didn’t like this book, at all. I stuck with it because it is the center square of Cannonball Read Bingo. But Craig Ferguson’s Between the Bridge and the River isn’t good. Two times the author refers to the two main characters with the statement “He had become interesting.” That is not correct. Neither of the two main characters is interesting, ever. One character, Fraser, is a preacher on a late night religious program whose career ends in disgrace when he is accused of sexually […]
Like Firefly, if Zoe was the Captain
I got the audio book for The Palace Job because of fun reviews from emmalita and lowercasesee. Sometimes I think the more fun part of the Cannonball is reading reviews to get new books to read. The only problem with listening to the audio book is you have to look up all the spellings for the fantasy names. The Palace Job is about a rag-tag group of misfits who plan to rob Archvoyant Silestin (a competent and formidable bad guy…hooray!). There’s a war between the […]
Wonder Woman
I found this on a list of the Best Wonder Woman comics. https://www.ranker.com/list/best-wonder-woman-comics-storylines/ranker-comics There are many such lists out there. The idea of reading a Wonder Woman comic written by a woman sounded good to me. I wanted to read some of her stories after seeing the amazing movie last year. The problem, of course, is she’s been a comics character since 1941! So every point you “jump into” has a giant back story you don’t know. Not to mention the fact that every 25 […]
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