Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Because being of utility was more than I had expected, and yet one still does not want to be used. Of use, but not used.”

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Ann Older

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The Mimicking of Known Successes can be quickly described as what if Sherlock Holmes, but sapphic and in a sci-fi future where the Earth is uninhabitable and humans have colonized Jupiter?   Malka Ann Older’s resume is a wide combination of things, and it feeds directly into the kind of book that The Mimicking of Known Successes is. We have here a book that examines what happens next when final resources are used to leave Earth, but the goal is to go back. Pleiti is our […]

I lean towards Little Ghost

Little Ghost House Hunts by Lucy Branam

All Hallows' Eve by Anthony DeStefano

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If you are new here, or to my reviews, let me tell you: I like Halloween. However, I do not like the spooky or horror or gross, but the fun, candy getting, costume wearing part. I also like reading Halloween books, especially for kids. The novel The Halloween Tree has some great moments for the 10 to adult reader, but there is nothing like a picture book. And recently, I found two picture books (read on line, currently available) that are very different from each […]

Baby Blue your friends got you

Baby Blue by Bim Eriksson

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Baby Blue by Bim Eriksson and translator Melissa Bowers was another one of those books I looked at the cover of and said, “Why did I request this?” (As I got it through my library). I don’t remember why, but as I sit here typing this review, I think it probably is getting some attention for the fact it is pretty awesome (if not a “What did I read?” and one of the more odd reads of the year so far) book. I think it […]

The girl you really are

The October Girl Volume One by Matthew Dow Smith

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When I was reading The October Girl Volume One by Matthew Dow Smith I was not sure what I was going to write about. Therefore, the day I wrote this I was thinking how I read and finished other books after, even publishing reviews. And here I was still mulling over a fairly on the surface, easy story. A book that should not have given me any trouble writing about. Things hit me in an odd way. The story is somewhat familiar (a lost princess, […]

“When faced with true sorrow, people lose even the strength to shed tears.”

Strange Pictures: The Japaense Mystery-Horror Sensation by Uketsu; translated by Jim Rion

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Nine childlike drawings: a series of five pictures drawn by a pregnant woman, uploaded on a seemingly innocuous blog a child’s sketch of his home a drawing done by a young girl in therapy and two different drawings by two different murder victims One over-arching and terrifying mystery that connects them all. Can you solve it?   I probably should have read this book before Strange Houses; not only was it published first, but (I believe) two characters appear here that also appear in Strange […]

Light Mystery, Solid Ending

The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer

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Bingo: Borrowed. I borrowed this online book from the library. This light-weight mystery by Georgette Heyer is set in a familiar milieu: a weekend at an English country estate filled with a plethora of guests. There is the heroine, her sister, the sister’s bombastic and wealthy husband who owns the estate, a broke nephew, a man in love with the sister, a down on their luck couple whose flirtatious wife mesmerizes the bombastic husband, a middle aged widow, a vicar and his judgmental wife, and […]



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