Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Paging Mary Sue. Paging Mary Sue to the Tarot Academy

Tarot Academy 2: Spells of Breath and Blade by Sarah Piper

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We are still in the midst of a pandemic, so I think we all need some fun, light-hearted reads to keeps spirits high. I figured that the second installment in the Tarot Academy books would be that fun read. It became difficult to finish this book though on account that my eyes were constantly rolled to the back of my head. Where the first book in this series created an interesting and well-explained magical system that was balanced well with the romance parts of the story, […]

Makes me wish I knew more about jazz

Jazz by Toni Morrison

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CBR12 BINGO: The Roaring 20’s Have you ever gone to the movies, and as the credits roll, you can’t say that you loved the film  or that you hated it, you just kind of think, “hmmm,” but for days after you find yourself pondering it, and visions of certain scenes and themes invade your thoughts, so eventually you come to realize that you’ve experienced something special? Jazz is like that. During the first few chapters, I appreciated the beauty of the language but couldn’t help […]

Talking Slime and Generic Fantasy Gets Interesting

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol 13 by Fuse, Taiki Kawakami, Mitz Vah

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Bingo Review 22: I Wish Sometimes, even pre-now world times, there are moments of kind of daydream wishing that I might be able to be a part of a fictional world I have been reading, and it’s almost always a fantasy (pun not totally intended). That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is on the one hand, generic fantasy based on common gaming tropes, but on the other also interesting enough for some of the political and social elements of the world that have […]

You Can’t Escape Your Past

Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason

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BINGO: Fresh Start – #1 in the Reykjavik Murder Mystery series Best for: Fans of murder mysteries set in Iceland. In a nutshell: CN: Sexual Assault Detective Erlendur is called to investigate the murder of an older man. As the investigation unfolds, he discovers a possible link to crimes the victim committed in the past. Worth quoting: N/A Why I chose it: I like mysteries set in Iceland, and this series comes generally well-reviewed. Review: This book didn’t exactly go where I expected it to, […]

Jackson Brodie is a total d***

One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson

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Bingo Square: I Wish. (I thought this was set in Yorkshire but I was wrong, so it’ll have to be for the whole of the UK since I have no idea when I’ll be able to visit again.) *Wasn’t sure about adding expletives to titles but he is. I’ll get to that in a bit. One Good Turn is ostensibly a Jackson Brodie novel, and true, he is in it, but it has many other points of view so it’s often hard to see him […]

My journey was different, but I can relate

The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes

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#cbr12bingo Shelfie The Times I Knew I Was Gay is less of a coming out story and more of a “coming into yourself” story. Eleanor Crewes does not do a “deep dive” into their journey to finding their true self but all the important parts, events, feelings and people are there. These highlights create a feeling that you are reading a diary or watching a movie that Crewes is narrating. Crewes comes out to themselves (and to family and friends) several times before they finally […]



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