Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Another Man’s Poison (George & Molly Palmer-Jones #5) by Ann Cleeves

Another Man's Poison by Ann Cleeves

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I think every book I read this weekend was a three star read. Nothing Earth shaking at all. I think I am disappointed with this one because the prior George & Molly Palmer-Jones books were really good. This book’s reasoning behind the murder just didn’t make sense because Cleeves in my opinion did something I don’t like with mystery writers, just tossed out information on something you would not get to until they tell you. It just came out of nowhere for me. Also, for […]

Culture has many forms

The Runaway Pancake by Tiny Fisscher

Sleep Here, Wake There by Caio Zero

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cbr17bingo Culture (Runaway Pancake) and Work (Sleep Here, Wake There) When you are a reader of the children’s genre you find all types of books. One of my favorites are picture books as they are fun, unique and quick reads. Still, they can have deep messages and/or be quirky and fun.  The Runaway Pancake by Tiny Fisscher and illustrated by Sophie Pluim (currently available but read via an online reader copy) (CULTURE) is a fun and quirky one with a  fun take on the Gingerbread […]

The Children of Eve by John Connolly

The Children of Eve by John Connolly

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I don’t know guys. I love Charlie Parker but this was just not that great. It’s definitely not in my top five of this series. This is even more filler (why is Parker so important—the world will never know) and the main plot is just very unsatisfying. I just felt like there were too many holes and not enough people for me care about outside of Charlie, Louis, and Angel. We do get more of Charlie and his daughter Sam which I appreciated. I wonder […]

Not the kind of in-depth I was looking for

Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh

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Not in Love (Ali Hazelwood) *** Rue Siebert is a scientist who loves her work. She spends her days at a tech company trying to improve the shelf life of perishables; as a child who dealt with a lot of food insecurity, it is personally important to her. It also provides her with financial stability and her best friend works there too. But then a hostile takeover occurs, and Rue is very surprised to see the man leading the takeover is Eli Killgore – the […]

There were also nuns in the book

Danger to Others by Crites, Martha

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Bingo row 4 – red (Why did I splay out the book like this? To show how red it is.) I recently read and partially read a few books that should have been enjoyable, but they weren’t. Maybe I was in the wrong place for books I would have enjoyed at another time. Maybe those books just weren’t for me. But whatever it was, what I needed was murder mysteries. Danger to Others by Martha Crites is a standalone sequel to her first book. If […]

Citation and murder

All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby

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bingo row 5 – citizen S.A. Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed takes place in Flannery O’Connor’s south. The protagonist – even cites her because he is so very well read. The book is set c. 2017 and was published in 2023. Normally several years doesn’t make a big difference, but considering that topics included confederate statues being taken down, Black lives mattering, and racist cops, I think setting it pre-2020 makes a big difference. But I’m not Black and I’ve never been to Virginia so […]



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