Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Location, Location, Location (200 pages of it)

Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft

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Bingo 8 (So It Begins) This makes twice recently that I have gone into the library to kill a few minutes after returning something and come out with something I’ve been wanting to read for a while. This time I found Senlin Ascends, which is book 1 of what I think is currently a trilogy, The Books of Babel. I actually saw books 2 and 3 first on the display, and after a few minutes I found book 1, which has been on my TBR […]

Some Intriguing Potential, But I Felt So Little

By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham

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CBR11 Bingo Square: Rainbow Flag Truth be told, for the Rainbow Flag square I was hoping to read Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham (is the movie adaptation with Colin Farrell worth watching? I didn’t know this existed and well, Mr. Farrell is a big draw for me, I must admit), but sadly our local library didn’t have that novel. However, they DID have By Nightfall, and no matter the subject, Michael Cunningham is still LGBT+, and I DO have a […]

Far and Away

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

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Cbr11bingo Far and Away I checked the antipodes map to see what the opposite end of the world from Pennsylvania would be. Turns out, it’s in the Indian Ocean, with the closest land mass being Australia. Picnic at Hanging Rock is a classic of Australian literature. Published in 1967, the novel tells the story of three teenaged girls and a teacher who go missing while on a picnic in 1900. This fictional story is famous for being an unsolved mystery, but it is so much more […]

Revenge Killing or Just Another White Guy Killing His Family as A Result of Economic Despair?

The Dry by Jane Harper

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Bingo Square: Far and Away I wish I had been more creative with this square and done something other than physical distance but I was in the mood for a murder mystery, and Australia is definitely one of those places I have never been close enough to seriously considering visiting.  Throw in rural Australia, and it’s even farther away. After twenty years away from his home town, Aaron Falk is back.  Tragedy forced him out of town, and tragedy has brought him back. Twenty years […]

The True Story of Supergirl’s Nia Nal Actress

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt

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Bingo Square: True Story Around the beginning of the fourth season of Supergirl, Dustin Rowles wrote an article on Pajiba about his neighbor and how their daughter had been cast as the first transgender superhero on the show.  I fell behind on Supergirl this season – the overall storyline was interesting but they were spending way too much time on a boring side plot with the Guardian/Jimmy Olsen.  I don’t dislike Jimmy Olsen but I think he is one of the characters the show has […]

Meh approach to a decent concept

Ophelia by Lisa Klein

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Bingo Square: Remix I was a bit hesitant when this showed up as one of my Kindle Deals but was seduced by the “Now a Major Motion Picture” sentence on the cover, especially when I realized that Daisy Ridley was the one playing Ophelia.  Personally, I’ve always thought it would be fun to write/read a novel in which Juliet had not died and instead survived the double suicide to go on to have a successful and happy life.  Ophelia, unfortunately, never captured my imagination that […]



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