tikkersweet – Cannonball Read 17

“It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.”

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

February 15, 2020 by tikkersweet Leave a Comment

I am not that familiar with the Kelpies or other water horse folklore so I don’t know how much of this story is based on folklore or just the writers imagination but man eating water horses, I’m in! The setting for the story is an island named Thisby and the book does a great job getting that small town feel, where some people can’t wait to get off of the island and others could not picture any other life. The islands economy is made up […]

Am I a Dunce?

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

March 10, 2019 by tikkersweet 2 Comments

I caught a little bit of the Great American Read from PBS which led me to their website. I reserved several books at the library from the list to try and expand my reading. Well the first one that came available from the list was a DNF (One Hundred Years of Solitude) and I am kind of torn on this one. I snickered out loud all through this book but I cannot say I enjoyed it and I cannot reconcile in my brain not enjoying a […]

Are Your Plans Good Enough To Hold Up to Time Travel and Amnesia

An Echo of Things to Come (The Licanius Trilogy, #2) by James Islington

February 16, 2019 by tikkersweet Leave a Comment

Time travel, mind control, amnesia, flashbacks, immortals, stalkers, secret identities, magic swords, and battles; there is a lot happening in this book. It is not a stand-alone book and you will need to read the first in order to follow the second. I have to admit, even with reading the first I was a little lost on this one and will probably have to go through it again before the third one is released. To give you some background of the story there are people that […]

Mrs Cranky

Mr Mercedes by Stephen King

January 27, 2019 by tikkersweet 4 Comments

I have been in a cranky mood this week so I don’t know if it was me or this book but I AM CRANKY. Every time his neighbor went into Jerome Feel-good Delight mode – CRANK, The ridiculously unbelievable love story shoe horned in so they could kill the woman off to give the main character more of a reason to catch the bad guy – CRANK, all of the clunky racist dialoged from the killer – CRANK, n-word this, n-word that, n-work, n-word, n-word- CRANK, CRANK, CRANK. The […]

Arrr, There be Pirates and Voodoo Here

On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers

January 20, 2019 by tikkersweet Leave a Comment

I needed a book to listen to at work and this came up in the available now selection at my library. I have never seen the movie so I don’t know if this follows it or if it is even based on the book. John Chandagnac, a puppeteer, is sailing on the Vociferous Carmichael to confront his uncle who stole his fathers fortune when it is attacked by pirates. On board are Beth Hurwood, her father Benjamin, and his doctor Leo Friend. After wounding the pirate captain, Philip Davies, with a […]

Daughters of the Lake

Daughters of the Lake by Wendy Webb

January 14, 2019 by tikkersweet Leave a Comment

This book follows several generations of women that have a connection to Lake Superior and goes between current time and the 1900’s in alternating chapters. Kate Granger goes to her family’s house along the lake after splitting with her husband and a body washes up on shore. Kate realizes she has been dreaming about this woman since before she washed up on shore and that is why she knows the woman is holding an infant. When she dreams it is through this woman’s eyes and […]

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