Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

About Moonlight Reader

CBR11 participant

Cannonball Read 11 is my first foray into cannonballing. This year I am working my way through A Century of Women, which means that you'll get lots of reviews of books by women written between 1900 and 1999. Also, I read mysteries by the dozen, most of which I won't review. Also, cancer sucks, so let's get out there and kick the shit out of it. I blog at All The Vintage Ladies - come visit me there!

Moonlight Reader's Reviews:

Why isn’t dinner on the table, and other complaints of hardworking men

Puppet for a Corpse by Dorothy Simpson

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I picked up one of these Luke Thanet books for a couple of bucks at the UBS before Christmas – I am always looking for new classic mystery series, and this looked like a decent option. This is the third book in the series I’ve read at this point. I read the 6th book, Dead on Arrival, first, and then I bought the second and third books because they must have been on sale, as I got them both for under $3.00 each, and the […]

The Streets of Isola are a Cold, Bleak Place

The Pusher by Ed McBain

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This is not the first 87th Precinct mystery that I’ve read – I bought a whole bunch of them when the kindle editions went on sale for .99 back in 2012. This one wasn’t available at the time, so I skipped it. The first one, Cop Hater, also wasn’t available at that time, a fact which I just realized sitting down to write this review. Having gotten that organizational explanation out of the way, let’s talk about The Pusher, which was published in 1956. The […]

Let’s All Have Some Tea and Muffins

At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie

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At Bertram’s Hotel is the 11th Miss Marple, published in 1944, and Jane is winding down her career – there are only two more Miss Marple mysteries after this one: Nemesis, published in 1971 and The Sleeping Murder, published in 1976 (but apparently written much earlier). Bertram’s Hotel is an old-fashioned hotel in London, with an impeccable reputation and an equally impeccable tea tray. One can get *real* muffins here, slathered in butter, to go with one’s tea. As an American, I have no idea […]

Wild nights are my glory

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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This was a reread – I first read A Wrinkle in Time as a girl, and read it again as an adult four years ago. I decided to reread A Wrinkle in Time again because I am also going to reread the remainder of the Murry/O’Keefe series and I am one of those people who needs to begin at the beginning. Even after all these years, I remain in awe of Madeleine L’Engle’s extraordinary humanity. She was a remarkable woman, and I’m not sure that […]

Just take out a loan to buy food, Sophia. Grocery stores will work with you, if you can’t afford to eat…

Our Spoons Came From Woolworths by Barbara Comyns

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“I told Helen my story and she went home and cried.” I have an ongoing reading project called “A Century of Women,” where I am reading a book written by a woman author for every year in the 20th century, from 1900 through 1999. For that reason, you’ll be seeing a lot of reviews of books written – by women – before 2000. Published in 1950, Our Spoons Came From Woolworths is told in the first person by Sophia Fairclough, who meets and marries Charles […]

Gone Girls, 1900 Edition

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsey

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Picnic at Hanging Rock is a small book, only 224 pages, that packs an outsize punch. I can’t remember where I stumbled on it – if it was through blogging or goodreads, or just by following one of the bookish rabbit trails that I find myself chasing when I start looking at books. The book description on Goodreads likens it to “Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, and Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides as a masterpiece of intrigue.” […]



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