One of the things I like most about doing the Cannonball every year is getting recommendations from other ‘ballers for books I might never have heard of otherwise. Honestly, I can’t believe I had never heard of Jim Butcher or Harry Dresden before, and for that I am sorry. And I also can’t believe that its taken me this long to get around to the first of the series, Storm Front. I’m going to admit something to you about Storm Front. I had taken it […]
What am I going to do when Sue Grafton gets to Z?
One rainy afternoon, about 9 years ago, I went to the local library. I had a toddler and an infant, and the library was right next door to our apartment, so we used to drop by a lot. And I would wander around and pick up random books that looked interesting for me to read while I was up with a cranky baby all night. One of the books I got on that rainy day was a dog-eared paperback called A is for Alibi. And […]
More from my Cannonball boyfriend. He can do no wrong, really.
I love discovering new authors and then devouring their entire bibliography. It’s like a little present, just for me. And I’m still making my way through the early books written by my Cannonball boyfriend, Andrew Smith. So far, I’ve loved Grasshopper Jungle, The Alex Crow, and Winger. And while I didn’t 100% love The Marbury Lens, I was intrigued enough by its unique darkness to pick up its sequel, Passenger. Passenger is just about the darkest, most psychologically frightening, YA book I’ve ever come across. And I mean that in […]
Open your mouth as wide as you can. I need to shove some pop culture references down your throat.
Oh dear. I’m going to keep this exceptionally short, as I don’t really have anything good to say. Like many of you, I really, really wanted to like this one. I tried really hard to keep Ready Player One out of my mind, and I tried not to compare the two while I was reading this one. And for almost half of Armada, I was ok. I was annoyed, and yes, I realized that this one wasn’t as good as RPO, but I was still […]
This is my Cannonball, and I’ll make it all about me if I want to.
Welcome to a long, rambling review that’s all about me. My love affair with the Boston Red Sox began when I was super young. One of my very first memories is of my parents leaving me with a babysitter so that they could go to the World Series game (you know, the one where Carlton Fisk hit that home run) and they brought me home a hat. I loved that damn hat. And I loved that team, even though they completely bungled the series and […]
Revisiting a favorite from when I was 10.
When I was a wee Scoots, I had a few authors that I loved. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Judy Blume. John D. Fitzgerald (seriously, The Great Brain books were the best). And when I could get my hands on his books, I loved Daniel Manus Pinkwater. His books were just so crazy and weird, I couldn’t help but love them. Fat Men From Space. The Hoboken Chicken Emergency. The Avocado of Death. These books were really unlike anything I had every read before. And Lizard Music is […]
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