Cannonball Read 17

“Fern wondered if all dramatic showdowns had such an awkward aftermath. It was more painful than a book group pretending they’d read the story.”

Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Bradlee

November 26, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Fern, the profaneity-heavy Rattikin and bookseller first appearing in Bookshops and Bonedust, has run her quiet little shop in her quiet seaside village for years. Now, offered a change of scenery and a potential end to the ennui she's fallen into in recent years, she transplants herself to the city … [Read more]

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:150 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: bounties, poor decisions while drunk, quests, rattikin, talking cutlery, Travis Bradlee, weird religion ·

“Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands: Book 2 of the Emily Wilde Series: A Novel by Heather Fawcett

November 26, 2025 by bjornsnipe 2 Comments

To be honest, it took me three weeks to get through this book. Not that it was overly long (at 341 pages, I don't consider it a long book), and not that I hated it (though to be honest, I would probably have to work up an emotion to it past "meh" to get towards something like hate), but because my … [Read more]

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:149 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: faeries, footnotes, Heather Fawcett, housekeeping, the grim ·

Witches and Nazis and Ghosts – Oh My

A Resistance of Witches by Morgan Ryan

November 25, 2025 by Jen K Leave a Comment

The author definitely has potential and I’d be curious to see what else she does but I’d say the novel is a solid 3 - really interesting ideas but there were plot points that could have been fleshed out more to make it stronger. Other themes and plot were very much conventional (mother-daughter … [Read more]

Jen K's CBR17 Review No:116 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History · Tags: Morgan Ryan, witches, World War II ·

Bad-a$$ gals

The Girl Who Changed Little League: The True Story of Maria Pepe and Her Battle to Play Ball. by Maria Pepe with Jean L. S. Patrick

Sparrow Loves Reptiles by Murry Burgess and Tamisha Anthony

November 25, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Girls are bad-a$$ in ways they might not know. And Maria Pepe did not really know it, she just knew she wanted to play Little League. But the powers that be said girls can’t play. Yet, Maria was not going to let herself be stopped. And Pepe with Jean L. S. Patrick showed how this could be done in … [Read more]

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:530 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Sports · Tags: amphibians, Baseball, curiosity, Jean L. S. Patrick, little league, Maria Pepe, Maria Pepe with Jean L. S. Patrick, Murry Burgess, Murry Burgess and Tamisha Anthony, nature, reptiles, Sarah Green, science, Social Themes, Tamisha Anthony ·

Celebrate Ramadan

Ramadan for Everyone: A Muslim Community Story by Aya Khalil

November 25, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Again, I almost did not read a book. I have read several books about Ramadan, and thought that perhaps Ramadan for Everyone: A Muslim Community Story by Aya Khalil would be just like those. Turns out, it is and is not like other books. We have the concept of Ramadan, the events and things one does … [Read more]

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:528 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Poetry, Religion · Tags: Aya Khalil, celebrations, family, holidays, Muslim, Muslim community, Ramadan, Rashin Kheiriyeh, Social Themes ·

Late to the party, but still treats

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

November 25, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I came late to the Carrie Fisher as an author party. I knew she had written certain ones, forgotten she’d written other ones, but never read anything. Plus, I only had a small inkling of wanting to read anything (mostly right after she passed). But then I found The Princess Diarist. Thinking it was … [Read more]

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:527 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction · Tags: actors, actresses, carrie fisher, essays, memoirs, star wars ·

Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.

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