Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

About Ellesfena

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I mostly read nonfiction (especially public health-related), mysteries, and fantasy. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Ellesfena's Quick Questions interview.)

Ellesfena's Reviews:

I Have Seen the Nipple on Your Soul

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

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You know those workdays where you get a lot done in the morning, and you think to yourself, “I’ve done enough, I think I can take it easy this afternoon”? Well, consider that my attitude for the rest of 2022, as my greatest achievement of the year is behind me: I finished this damn book. I’ve wanted to read Haruki Murakami for a long time, and I was so intrigued by the premise of this book: A woman, Aomame, begins to discover subtle differences between […]

Yay for finishing my Bingo card! But mehhhh to this book.

Stranded by Sarah Goodwin

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CBR Bingo: Shelfie (Purchased the e-book–it’s cheap!) Yay! I can’t believe I finished my Bingo card, this is my first time ever doing that! I wish I would have finished on a stronger book, though. Stranded is the story of Maddy, a woman who has been cast on a Survivor-esque reality show where eight people are left on an island for a year to try and survive and build a community. After a couple months of uneasy cooperation, things start to go wrong. If you’ve read Lord […]

That Didn’t Really Happen.

Saga Vol. 9 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples

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CBR Bingo Category: White Whale Series: Saga. I read (and reviewed) Vol. 1 in 2018. What I remembered about this series prior to reading this book: A lot. Marko and Alana are from a planet and a moon which are at war. They fall in love, have Hazel, become fugitives thanks to their forbidden romance, and a million intergalactic adventures and eccentric characters follow. Why I stopped reading the series: Over the past few years I read Vols. 1-8 fairly quickly, but I’ve had Vol. […]

More Bertie, Please

Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall Smith

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CBR Bingo: Reader’s Choice (replacing the Machinery square) Series: 44 Scotland Street. I read (and reviewed) Book 1 in 2017. What I remembered about this series prior to reading this book: Not very much–I definitely remembered Bruce, the Gaston of the book, who had some underwear-related adventure in the first book that made me laugh out loud although I can’t remember the details any more. And Bertie, the 6 year old whose mother forces him to wear pink pants because she’s trying to raise him […]

Tense and Suspenseful

The Janes by Louisa Luna

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CBR Bingo: Landscape My whole plan this year of picking up series I’d abandoned kind of got, well, abandoned when Bingo started, but I was glad I found a square for this series as I enjoyed the first book quite a bit. Series: Alice Vega. This is Book #2, I read (and reviewed) Book #1 in 2020. What I remembered about this series prior to reading this book: I remembered the two main characters, Alice Vega (the no-nonsense, prone to explosive violence PI) and Max […]

Just ok, but with plenty of familiar cozy beats

Death at Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn

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CBR Bingo: Self-care (favorite genre to read for comfort, plus I read it while on a self-care vacation) Daisy Dalrymple, like so many cozy mystery heroines before her, lives in post-WWI England, comes from a wealthy family but it somewhat impoverished due to her insistence on making her own way, and is bright, pretty, and assertive. If you’ve read cozy mysteries, you’ve read about women like Daisy, but that doesn’t make her any less likable–just not very memorable. Death at Wentwater Court is the first Daisy […]



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