Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Featured Review Archive

These reviews, which were promoted in CBR social media, on our homepage, and in Pajiba Love, appear below by review publication date, not by date featured.

 

One for the Citizen Detectives

My Murder by Katie Williams

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What if the murder you had to solve was your own? I hope everyone has been brushing up their investigative skills! Lou is the happily married mother of a young toddler. Lou was also the fifth victim of a serial killer. Cloned along with the other four victims and brought back to life by the Replication Commission, Lou is just trying to settle back into her life and the job she loves. Very quickly Lou realizes that her life before was not as picture perfect […]

“I met a man who wasn’t there…”

The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère

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Strange worlds, bingo I ‘found’ Emmanuel Carrère in a Guardian summer reads column. I must not have read it too carefully, because I didn’t end up reserving the recommended book at my library, but an earlier work, which I then absolutely tore through. The Adversary is a work of true crime, superbly translated by Linda Coverdale, about a man who annihilates his family. Jean-Claude Romand is a bourgeois doctor, a World Health Organization (WHO) researcher, who lives in France near the Swiss border. He is […]

Simple but interesting

The Awesome Human Journal: A Tool Kit for the Tough Days, the Good Days, and All the Days in Between by Nataly Kogan

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CBR15Passport genre   I have almost 590 reviews to hit 15 Cannonballs for Cannonball 15. And while it is possible (vel veeter did fourteen and change in 2019), is it practical for me to have that goal/thought/need/etc? Probably not. However, the reason I started my review off like this is because I was wondering if The Awesome Human Journal: A Tool Kit for the Tough Days, the Good Days, and All the Days in Between would be a good journal for me to have someplace […]

CBR15 Bingo: Politics

Jingo by Terry Pratchett

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4.5 stars CBR15 Bingo: Politics (the word is used 18 times over the course of the novel) Official book description: It isn’t much of an island that rises up one moonless night from the depths of the Circle Sea — just a few square miles of silt and some old ruins. Unfortunately, the historically disputed lump of land called Leshp is once again floating directly between Ankh-Morpork and the city of Al-Khali on the coast of Klatch — which is spark enough to ignite that […]

A nostalgic, charming romp

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

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This was loaned to me by a friend who said he and his teen daughter loved the whole series, and it is delightful. As someone who grew up with the Oz books, it felt familiar, like a love letter to all our favorite childhood books.  September is 12, living in Nebraska and feeling bored. When the Green Wind calls her ‘somewhat irascible’ and offers a trip to Fairyland, she jumps at the chance. She feels a little bad about not waving goodbye to her mother […]

Tennis, Anyone?

Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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I played a lot of sports in middle school and high school and somehow, I had never touched a tennis racket until about two years ago.  I promptly put that racket back after that first outing, because I was absolutely terrible.  I have read a lot of TJR’s books and really loved The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, I like Daisy Jones and the Six, and I enjoyed the rest of her oeuvre enough to read them on the beach. So it shouldn’t have been […]



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