Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Still Piecing Together the Puzzle

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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After reading this, I don’t know how I’m going to be able to wait for the last book to come out. Although I think Harrow the Ninth was the best out of the three Locked Tomb books, Nona the Ninth was still so good, and I want to know how everything is going to unfold in the end. Nona has a very different tone than the first two books, primarily because it’s following Nona, who could not be more different from both Gideon and Harrowhark. Although in […]

Mythic Alphabet Murders and Staying Normal

The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix

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Bingo 2: Part 2 I’m going a tad bit literal here as The Sinister Booksellers of Bath is a sequel. Once again, it’s in 1980s London, Bath, and nearby areas, with some excursions into locations/times folkloric or supernatural. Susan, Merlin, Vivien, and the rest of the booksellers and associates are all back as well. There are essentially two mysteries on hand, both involving Susan: there’s the disappearances and murders in a realm out of time and sort of space, and then there’s Susan’s growing sense […]

Now I have to wait until November/December for book 8!

Asadora!Vol. 7 by Naoki Urasawa

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cbr16bingo Rings (Japan hosting the 1964 Olympics) Asadora!Vol. 7 by Naoki Urasawa is a manga series that I, for some reason, became hooked on. I am not a manga reader, especially when it is in the traditional Japanese format. I do not usually like horror or monsters. And honestly, a couple of the characters in the story are stereotypes of Japanese people, with the “slant eyes,” odd mustaches, and old/ugly. And yet, there is something about the character Asa that just “gets me” in the […]

Anything but plain

Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol

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cbr16bingo Liberate: (Jane tries to liberate herself from the bonds of being a woman; the mermaids try to liberate themselves from ageing) Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol was on my radar for some time, but I never found a copy and reading time at the same time. I’m not sure what I expected, or honestly to like it as much as I did. I thought it would be cute, funny, not WOW but also not mediocre. And while there are no real surprises […]

When the Invisible Man’s invisible dog disappears, how do you know? 

Nancy Spector, Monster Detective 1: The Case of the Missing Spot by Stephen W Martin

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cbr16bingo Part One Nancy Spector, Monster Detective 1: The Case of the Missing Spot by Stephen W Martin and illustrated by Linh Pham was a win from the publisher and sent to me as an online reader copy. I had forgotten I had signed up for and/or requested it, but it was a delightful surprise as I came away from it with a bit of a giggle, and a jonesing for the second read.  The only bump was that some of the information we are […]

Dreams can change you

Caterpillar Chryzzle by Andrew Bond

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Caterpillar Chryzzle by Andrew Bond and illustrated by Julie Völk is cbr16bingo Dreams just because there is a new adventure coming. The Caterpillar of the story is going onto another life and not standing still. They feel the “tingly” or the “chryzzle” of what lays beyond what they have in front of them. Others might laugh, and are content to stay grounded (literally in the character of Worm) but our young hero won’t be stopped. This book shows how we must allow ourselves to grow […]



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