Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small.”

Björnstad (Beartown) by Fredrick Backman

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CBR13 Bingo: Sports Ball (could easily also be used as Rec’d, since a lot of Cannonballers have read and reviewed it favourably) Official book description: People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better […]

Unfortunately, I am too firmly on Team Charles to really enjoy this…

Younger by Pamela Redmond Satran

Older by Pamela Redmond

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“How are you going to be come a brand-new person if you keep acting like your same old self?”   “That was an aspect of youth I didn’t think, no matter how good my makeup or my acting skills, I’d be able to reclaim: the belief that if you were smart or ambitious enough, you could make your life turn out exactly as you wanted.” Fresh from her divorce—40 Something Alice needs to rejoin the workforce. Twenty years of being a stay at home mom […]

Two novels, two different tv series

The Wench Is Dead by Colin Dexter

Dead Simple by Peter James

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I’ve decided to combine these two into one review as I came to both books via the TV. Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse has long been a staple of mine on Sunday nights and afternoons as has the spin off, Lewis.  I was less familiar with Peter James Superintendent Grace novels, but they too are now a tv series with John Simm, perhaps more familiar to people from Life on Mars. I remembered the episode of Morse called The Wench is Dead but couldn’t remember the […]

Toss a coin…etc

The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

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3.5 #CBR12 Bingo: Repeat (since I’ve already covered the Adaptation square) Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher. This means he roams about the countryside, travelling from place to place, killing monsters for profit. To become a Witcher, he was taken from his family as a child, and long training, magic and special potions make him a strong, fast and highly efficient killer. Based on the stories in this collection, it seems that once, there were a lot more Witchers, now they are rare and unusual, and […]

#CBR10Bingo: Award Winner – Malin reads another book she’s owned for many years (Bingo #8)

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#CBR10Bingo: Award Winner (LA Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller 2013 and an Anthony Award for Best Audio Book in 2014) Supermodel Lula Landry topples from her third floor balcony and cracks her head open on the snow-covered pavement far below. Strangely, the paparazzi that were surrounding her apartment building earlier in the evening were nowhere to be seen when it happened. After careful investigation, the police rule the death a suicide, although the tabloids have all manner of conspiracy theories, the most popular being that she […]

Not exactly like the TV show, but still very good

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From the blurb: Meet Jessica Jones. Once upon a time, she was a costumed superhero…but not a very good one. Her powers were unremarkable compared to the costumed icons that populate the Marvel Universe. In a city of Marvels, Jessica Jones never found her niche. Now a chain-smoking, self-destructive alcoholic with a mean inferiority complex, Jones is the owner and sole employee of Alias Investigations – a small, private-investigative firm specialising in superhuman cases. When she uncovers the potentially explosive secret of one hero’s true […]



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