Arlo & Pips: Kings of the Birds by Elise Gravel
Do you want to have fun while learning about crows? Then, I cannot recommend Arlo & Pips: Kings of the Birds by Elise Gravel enough. Done in story format, we have two birds (Arlo the crow and one little yellow bird who goes by Pips) who meet one day. After a lot of bragging by Arlo, Pips learns this is one of the traits of crows. Pips and the reader learn other fun facts about crows such as the loving of shiny objects (hey! I’m […]
One of Our Thursdays is Missing (Thursday Next, #6) by Jasper Fforde
This was a good time, but I wasn’t ever able to lose myself in it. Seems fitting for a book I put on my Must Read list in 2011, and then didn’t get to for nine years. Jasper Fforde is always at worst just a good time for me, but sometimes his stuff ascends to the brilliant level; this just wasn’t that for me. This book, to my surprise, doesn’t even follow Thursday, but the written Thursday, formerly known as Thursday5, who failed her Jurisfiction […]
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
Eskarina Smith is the 8th child of an 8th son born in the little town called Bad Ass. She should have been the 8th son of an 8th son, but life has a way of mucking things up. What makes Eskarina, Esk for short, even more special is that she may just be the first female wizard in the history of Discworld. Esk grows up to nearly nine without incident until the local witch, Granny Weatherwax, tries to lead her away from wizardry to much […]
Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump
Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas
Crime In Progress by Glenn Simpson & Peter Fritsch
Burglars Can't Be Choosers by Lawrence Block
The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian by Lawrence Block
The Burglar Who Like to Quote Kipling by Lawrence Block
Seinfeldia: How A Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
I'll Have What She's Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting by Rebecca Harrington
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album by Ken Caillat and Steve Stiefel
O.K., I admit it, I have not posted any reviews this Cannonball. It’s just been a weird and for too many, sad time, hasn’t it? But I have managed to do a little reading. These may just be capsule reviews, but that’s just about all I can handle at the moment. There have been some good books and not so good books, but it’s 2020, so that’s par for the course. Looking at this list I realize that I have been drawn to books to […]
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvelous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice.” I was three quarters of the way through a 900 page beast […]
A Beastly Kind of Earl by Mia Vincy
This book is full on bonkers, in the best way. It constantly borders on being too silly, too ludicrous, too impossible to believe, and then pulls back just enough to keep you in on the ride. Plot: Thea is very nearly a manic pixie dream girl who loves pranks so long as the cause is good and the people being pranked suck. Rafe is a very nearly standard alphahole who is being maneuvered into marriage to Lady Arabella (fancy lady and Thea’s close friend) to […]
