Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I’m a dick, I’m addicted to you

Lights All Night Long by Lydia Fitzpatrick

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Bingo Update: Lights All Night Long counts as my Listicle square, since it was on our list of picks for my workplace book club. It also is the reason I went to my first book club meeting here! Lights All Night Long is a multi-timeline story of two Russian brothers, the prodigy and the fuck up. Ilya is our prodigy, a young man with immense talent for English and education and therefore a world of possibilities spread before him. Vladimir is his older brother, less […]

Stars Hollow meets the detective novel

Still Life by Louise Penny

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Still Life is the first Inspector Gamache novel in Louise Penny’s series, and for me it’s a backtrack- I started with the second novel, Dead Cold (alternate title: A Fatal Grace), back in February.  Still Life introduces us to all the main characters that show up in the later books, including the town of Three Pines and its close-knit community members.  (For such a quaint and friendly town, I get the feeling there are a lot murderers in Three Pines’ midst, if the length of […]

Blessed Be The Fruit of Margaret Atwood’s Mind

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

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Oh boy, where to begin. I read The Handmaid’s Tale for the first time two years ago and I was terrified.  I agree with the many think pieces on how the timing was right for a resurgence, what with the creeping anti-abortion laws in the southern States.  Despite this, I always thought that Canada was beyond the American abortion debate but the last two years suggest otherwise: Alberta elected an anti-abortion Premier (Jason Kenny) and the leader of our official Opposition Party (Andrew Scheer) is […]

This is a man’s world

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez

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I first heard about this book when the author, Caroline Criado Perez, was interviewed on the podcast 99% Invisible.  I was intrigued from first listen and paid an exorbitant amount to order it on Amazon (US$30 plus shipping from the UK!). Perez’s book is about two things: 1) the ways in which Western societies were founded on and continue to promote ‘maleness’ as the normative centre; and 2) how maleness at the centre is not just inconvenient for women- statistically 51% of humanity- but in […]

This other bacteria, permitted to age, does not kill a man but leaves in its wake the hulk of a creature torn and twisted.

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

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CBR11 BINGO: Back to School Square BINGO BLACKOUT!!! I don’t often re-read. I like to live in the world of a book for a bit and then move on. While there is currently a metric crap ton of books from my high school and college past staring at me from the book shelves in my house, the dust is rarely blown off one unless I am trying to foist it on my teenage son. “Here! This is a gooood book!” I am 99.9% sure that […]

One of Poirot’s most far-flung cases: an interview (#TwoHeadsAreBetterThanOne)

Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie

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I’ve recently introduced my husband to the Poirot TV series and then to the books, because there were some episodes I refused to let him see until after he had read the book. We ended up getting some of the audiobooks, because he’s a big fan of the format, so we’ve listened so far to Death on the Nile, Appointment with Death, and the Murder of Roger Ackroyd. For #Two Heads are Better than One, I decided to interview him on Appointment with Death, which […]



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