Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The night of all nights

Night of Lyons by Chasity Bowlin, Ruth A. Casie, Lynne Connolly, Sandra Sookoo, C.H. Admirand, Sara Adrien, Belle Ami, Abigail Bridges, Jenna Jaxon, Aurrora St. James

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Many a Regency hero and heroine will meet their match at the masquerade ball held tonight in the Lyon’s Den, an infamous gambling hall. A Lyon With No Name (Chasity Bowlin) This was a solid start to the collection, with the tried-and-true pairing of wickedness and innocence being refreshed by William’s awareness that he must pull his affairs together for Ellie and his estate’s sake. The Lady and the Lyon’s Scandal (Ruth A. Casie) Eva is a clever character, and I enjoyed how she and […]

Lock your doors, turn up the lights, surround yourself with garlic, and never invite a stranger in!

Frights from Feral V01 Welcome to Feral by Mark Fearing

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Mark Fearing (if that is their real name and not their ghost writer name) must have been one strange child and now a stranger adult. A child that was haunted by the best of the best hauntings, ghosts and ghouls whom they made friends with and shared with us now. They introduce us to those friends in their series about the town of Feral. Freya is our detective of the odd things in this town called Feral. They know the truth (or so they think) […]

“Looks like rain…”

11 Unabridged Stories from The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard by Elmore Leonard

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Western stories are horror stories. Desolation. Solitude. The Unknown. Monsters. That’s what they’re always about. I think that’s why I like them so much – they strip civilization down to a skeleton and then they ask the most basic questions. What kind of person are you, really? What would you do to live? Would you rather survive, or keep your character intact? Can you do both? This collection of Elmore Leonard’s Western stories was recently on sale as an audiobook, and most of the stories […]

Shana Tova, y’all!

Days of Awe: Anthology by Aviva Blakeman, E.S. Wilder

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This cover! It’s gorgeous. I laughed because a good friend of mine has frequently used the anthology’s tagline to describe Jewish holidays to me, “They tried to kill us, we survived. Let’s eat!” As gorgeous as the cover is, the stories inside are fantastic. Aviva Blakeman and E.S. Wilder have put together a fantastic anthology. From the introduction to the end of the last story, Jewish authors have written stories that center Jewish resistance. The stories range from the time of the Spanish inquisition to […]

These campfire stories don’t end with smores

Bad Medicine by Christopher Twin

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The cover of the online reader copy I had of Bad Medicine by Christopher Twin was first odd and second scary. And scary won out for the final thought of what it was for me.  And so are the short stories told around the campfire by a group of teens/possibly early 20-something friends. These stories can be graphic with language and imagery, especially the last one. They are based in Native folklore, legend, mythology, everyday and realistic events. They might be talking about demons, but those demons […]

Just Because a Famous Guy Wrote It. . .

Peter the Great’s African: Experiments in Prose by Alexander Pushkin

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cbr15 bingo Europe When I saw Pushkin’s name on this, it was very familiar of course, but I couldn’t remember reading anything by him.  Come to find out, he may be the Father of Russian Literature, but he’s a poet, and I mostly do novels.  But the familiar feeling I was getting was because he was also the go-to source for the Russian romantic composers, a genre I have always loved.  Ruslan and Lyudmila?  Overture by Glinka.  Eugene Onegin?  An opera by Tchaikovsky, best known […]



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