Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

cbr12bingo – No Money!

Bright and Dangerous Objects by Anneliese Mackintosh

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Full disclosure: I received this ARC from the Tin House Galley Club The atmosphere here in Bright and Dangerous Objects is heavy. It’s laden down with creeping grief, sudden disappointment and the growing dread of continuing to exist while things crash apart around you. Sensitive tattoo-artist boyfriends, fancy craft beer,  and getaways in stone cottages cannot save you from yourself. Solvig has inherited her mother’s furious brain. She has inherited her father’s tend towards self destruction. She has inherited a hunk of malachite that is supposed to […]

The best #Pandemic read I could ask for

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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Bingo Square: Pandemic This pandemic period, I did a great thing for my happiness: I read Gideon the Ninth. I’m going to eschew a plot description/blurb here and just say what everyone else has been saying: lesbian necromancers in space. Need a little more? Fine. Gideon is not a necromancer (but she is into girls). She hits things with swords so she’s recruited (unwillingly) to go to a big possibly haunted space castle/research facility with her worst enemy, her planet’s only surviving necromancer (who is into bones). […]

Sometimes Friends Give You Bad Books

Pay the Piper: A Rock n' Roll Fairytale by Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple

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  As a librarian, Crystalclear is always on the hunt for books in her friends’ wheelhouses, and so I got a text from her asking if I’d like to read Pay the Piper. She hadn’t loved it, but thought maybe she was just the wrong audience. Would I give it a try and an honest review? I’m the perfect audience; faerie legends and fractured fairytales are my jam. I was really excited to read this. ::Sigh:: The book is split between chapters in the world of […]

A quiet tragedy

On The Beach by Nevil Shute

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On The Beach was Shute’s most celebrated novel, published in 1957 when nuclear annihilation was still a somewhat novel and nebulous threat, rather than its own pop-culture genre. The novel takes place mostly in Melbourne, Australia, as a cloud of nuclear ‘dust’ descends from the northern to the southern hemisphere. The dust originated from over 4,000 nuclear detonations, set off in a brief but cataclysmic war between most of the world’s major and minor powers. The USA, Russia, and China are all named, but it […]

Stan Lee and the Novel that Doesn’t Work

A Trick of Light by Stan Lee, Kat Rosenfield

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Bingo Review 21: No Money I don’t remember the exact circumstance, probably some kind of short term promotion, but Stan Lee’s A Trick of Light was a freebie download for the Kindle, and I kind of wanted to read it, so I downloaded it. The book then sat in my Kindle library for the entire time between its initial release and now. I have to say, finally having gotten to it, I’m glad I didn’t pay anything for this one. I’d have felt a little […]

“It might be that saving the world is idiotically simple. Maybe we just need to connect and care for one another.” #CBRBingo – Shelfie

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2) by Hank Green

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I give this beautiful eyesore of a book five stars. Well, 4.5 rounded up. I kind of don’t know what to say about this book! It was a lot! And, honestly, I liked the first book in this duology (3.5 stars worth), but it didn’t blow my socks off or anything. This one kind of did. I think there was a huge jump in quality here, but also a huge jump in scale. There was a focus on April in the first one that kept […]



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