Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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My first CBR was 2021. It was COVID and I was reading and determined to do something with the time. Two years now and I'm in a very different situation all the way around. My goal for this year is to write more reviews of how a piece of reading made me actually think and feel, not just a recap.

MegsDarcy's Reviews:

The series ended with the softest and boringest of whimpers

Grace Under Fire by Julie Garwood

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Oh nostalgia, you fickle fickle tricky beast. I read Julie Garwood because my mom read Julie Garwood. When I was a pre-teen and desperately needed something new to read that wasn’t a kids book nor school book I found on one of my mom’s numerous book cases called Saving Grace. It was about an abused woman who has to escape to the highlands of Scotland and marry a stranger to be safe and survive. It was a historical romance and what I liked most was […]

The madness of Florida and TFG and snakes

Squeeze Me by Carl Hiassen

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I don’t know how to describe how much I enjoyed this book. I listened to it as a book on tape for a long drive between the mountains and it hit the spot in a way I didn’t know I needed. It is a very long book that probably could have been smaller, but the author had a story to tell that encompassed the last year and bit of TFG’s reign of horror and after he lost. There were many times in the book when […]

Alan Rickman: a bit catty, a bit snobby, and maybe a bit dirty?

Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman by Alan Rickman (Author) Rima Horton (Afterword), Emma Thompson (Contributor)

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Do you have ‘Bathroom books’ or know what they are? For me, a bathroom book is a book you can take up or put down easily and not worry too much about losing your place. This book is the absolute perfect bathroom book. In fact, I would argue it is best read in small chunks a year at a time. It is not the type of book you savour, but it will probably encourage you to go out and get a diary (as I did […]

A kids book written for youth marketed to adults

Beezley and the Witch: Selected Spells by Willow Mason

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An interesting premise: Check! A good heroine and interesting secondary characters: check! A location that makes me want to visit: check A fully-fledged idea that is well executed: eh…. check? I have no idea how to write this article without sounding like an ungrateful wretch. I got 3 books for less than the price of one by a special promotion online. All of the books kept me engaged and interested in their stories, there was nothing glaringly bad in the writing, and yet… Beezley and […]

How to solve mysteries and alienate coleagues

The Coroner by Matthew Hall

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I listened to this on the very long trip from Vancouver to Edmonton. And it was in some ways the perfect roundtrip book. It was engaging, excellently written dialogue, a complex and interesting protagonist, a case that was interesting, and not too much fluff to distract from the main story. Jenny Cooper was a barrister (lawyer) in the UK until her husband suddenly filed for divorce and she started having severe and debilitating panic attacks. Looking for a fresh start she gets the job as […]

Perfect summer anthology for the anti-romance beach reader

Otherworld Chills by Kelley Armstrong

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My summer reading has already been cut short by longer days, and the end of restrictions meaning I want to DO something. (Not that reading isn’t doing something, but I meant exercising my body more than mind). With that in mind, one of my favourite authors, Kelley Armstrong has a couple of anthologies of her short stories hanging around. I had read the entire ‘Otherworld’ series but hadn’t gotten through the anthologies yet. This book in particular has some stories of secondary characters from Otherworld […]



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