Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Wealth is just security. Luxury is living care free.”

The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

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4.5 stars CBR17 Bingo: Culture (A lot of people from a lot of different backgrounds, countries and cultures are forced together for a time during World War II) Official plot summary: January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa has always offered elegant luxury in the wilds of West Virginia, its mountain sweetwater washing away all of high society’s troubles. Local girl-turned-general manager June Porter Hudson has guided the Avallon skillfully through the first pangs of war. The Gilfoyles, the hotel’s aristocratic owners, have trained her […]

Takes a “Characters Welcome” first approach

The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

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Bingo Square: White It’s been about a year since the events of the last Thursday Murder Club novel, and it has been quiet as characters are dealing with grief and changing circumstances. But when the best man at Joyce’s daughter’s wedding approaches Elizabeth during the reception to ask for help, it is enough to kick-start the events of the novel and get the gang back together to investigate a potential murder or kidnapping. There are also a few other loose threads from previous books that […]

What? He Quit?

The Bone Orchard by Paul Doiron

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cbr17bingo Free Meeting up with our old friend Mike Bowditch, game warden, it turns out that he is no longer a game warden!  Except for one of his first supervisors, Sgt. Kathy Frost, none of the rest of the folks he’s worked for have been too keen on him.  There is that odd predicament concerning the number of murdered people that seem to turn up in his vicinity.  He had been sent to the hinterlands of Maine for awhile now, but can finally take a […]

Gals being literary rivals, then pals, then more?

Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti

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Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and Netgalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. Lady Georgiana Cleeve was disowned by her father when she announced that she was the author of several popular novels, and has lived alone with her mother ever since, cut off from all contact with her brothers, convinced that the scandal she brought on herself and her family would irrevocably tarnish the reputations of anyone connected to her. She is selling well and her books are popular, but for […]

A pig needs a knife

Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin

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A few days after I finished the Black Flame novel by Gretchen Felker-Martin, I was trying to describe it to a coworker. I was not doing a good job. I said it was horror and you could see it at a surface level or in a deeper manner. We follow a woman, who is a seriously closeted lesbian, who restores old film. She is used as the “official Jew”  (she is called the “mailroom Jew” when sent to meet a reporter who is deliberately hurtful, […]

Friend Carl might not have liked being a book prop, but I liked this book.

Orphanland by Lauren Fischer

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The story behind the book is better than the book, Orphanland by Lauren Fischer, and it is a good book. Or at least I think so, as it made a cozy memory to be connected to a book with a not so cozy theme. I was going to read it online, but got a finished paperback (after requesting the online book and the author contacting me saying thanks for requesting) from the author. We emailed a little bit as we were talking about the book, […]



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