Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

To DNF or not DFN

The Antique Hunter's Death on the Red Sea by C. L. Miller

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Scenario: You start reading a book, and then get a reminder that it’s due back to the library soon. Assuming no renewals, do you 1) speed through the rest, or 2) give up. The Antique Hunter’s Death on the Red Sea is going to be a ‘give it back not completely read’ for me. There’s nothing wrong with it as far as I’ve gotten, but it’s not quite what I want right now. I kind of wonder if I’d read the first in the series […]

No one is born knowing how friends work. You figure it out as you go along.

Icarus by K. Ancrum

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This house was loud and bright and full, and Icarus shivered into it like it was the first time he was being allowed in out of the cold. ― K. Ancrum, Icarus CBR 16 Bingo: Celestial Icarus is a seventeen-year-old boy in his senior year of high school. As soon as he graduates, or even as soon as he turns eighteen, he plans to leave home. His father, Angus, is an art thief. However, he and Icarus only steal from Mr. Black. Icarus does not […]

January 2024 Leftovers

The Battle of Hastings: The Fall of the Anglo-Saxons and the Rise of the Normans by Jim Bradbury

Time to Murder and Create by Lawrence Block

Charlesgate Confidential by Scott von Doviak

Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell

The Trouble With Peace by Joe Abercrombie

Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey

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A lot of folks said this month was slow but I thought it flew by… The Battle of Hastings: The Fall of the Anglo-Saxons and the Rise of the Normans *** Bit too stuffy and academic but gave me a great outline as to the importance of the Battle and its outcomes. Time to Murder and Create **** This is the second time I’ve come out of a Matthew Scudder re-read with a better impression than the first time I read it. How it bodes for the […]

“Art thieves steal more than beautiful objects; they steal memories and identities. They steal history.”

Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures by Robert Wittman, John Shiffman

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Sometimes professional curiosity places books on my to read list, and that’s certainly how Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures ended up there. While I don’t work in an art museum something that remains a point of interest for me from my days in grad school is the world of stolen and looted art and its recovery. Historical objects can fall into this category easily (and represent a good portion of the cases covered in Priceless) but art and antiquities […]

Mossad on the Trail of Arab Bad Guys …. Again

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 Gabriel Allon, our favorite art restorer and Israeli Mossad assassin is back, and he is about to become the father of twins and replace a former associate as the head of Israel intelligence. The plot, as usual, is so implausible as to require a total suspension of belief, but the plot lines are so complex, the characters so colorful, and the payback to the bad guys so creative that one can almost ignore the fact that the author’s rage at Middle Eastern bad guys totally […]



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