Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Locked Down

The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan

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Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: black cover Greenwich Village is perhaps the most beautiful neighborhood in the world’s greatest city. I love walking through it: the winding streets, the townhomes, the cafes and bars, the rich history. It feels like the best the city has to offer. I remember passing by the spot where the Women’s House of Detention was and thinking how beautiful the new building looked. I was curious to see where Mae West had been locked up and assumed when I […]

Going to San Francisco

The White Van by Patrick Hoffman

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Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: red cover And so I now come full circle to Patrick Hoffman’s catalog. Hoffman is a quality over quantity writer. Every 3-4 years, we are gifted with a new book of his that functions as a soup-to-nuts examination of how criminal justice works in America. A massive drug shipment in Every Man a Menace. Corporate espionage in Clean Hands. The war against white supremacists in Friends Helping Friends, which came out this year and is one of the best things I’ve read in 2025. […]

North Brooklyn

Greenpoint Brooklyn's Forgotten Past by Gregory Cobb

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Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: book begins with the letter “G” I worked in Greenpoint for two years and really came to love the area. My grandmother was from east Baltimore, the same east Baltimore featured in John Waters’ Hairspray. Patterson Park, Canton, Dundalk. Those were her stomping grounds. Those neighborhoods featured a glorious mix of ethnicities, religions, languages, and cultures coming together in a dense rowhouse-packed area. She always spoke fondly of growing up there. Greenpoint gave me a similar feeling, though like most of […]

The Patriarchal Cult

The Purity of Vengeance by Jussi Adler-Olsen

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Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: green cover. See photo. I’ve had some major life changes this year; mostly good, some not so good. As a result, I’m not only behind on my reading but I’m not cataloging here like I usually do. Maybe at some point, I’ll do a series of posts on the books I’ve read this year that I just didn’t have time or energy to write about. I lift this up because I’ve been diving through the Department Q series thanks […]

The Thiefs

Old Black Magic by Ace Atkins

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Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: starts with O I have heard from many living old school mystery writers that the modern PI mystery tales in the States can be traced back to Spenser. Having gone out of vogue with the deaths of Chandler and Hammett — and with only Ross Macdonald elevating the genre — the hardboiled PI tale had taken a back seat by the time Robert B. Parker began building his prodigious catalog in the early-70s. Which is why I’ve given more […]

And the Rose Goes Oh No

Here For the Wrong Reasons by Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang

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Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: review. I read this based on the review here.  My journey into sapphic romance continues with this fun little number. Also, before I begin, the women who co-wrote this apparently fell in love each other while writing it, which is the most adorable thing ever. And in the last romance I read, the writers were a wife-wife team. So maybe I have a thing? Or maybe it’s just coincidence. Either way, I don’t follow The Bachelor or shows like […]



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