Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Long Due Quest

A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire

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Bingo Square: Happy (New Toby Daye makes me happy) Over the last two months, quite a few fantasy series I enjoy have had new release published. Since I tend to pre-order certain authors, I don’t always pay close attention to the actual release date, so I have woken up to a few surprises lately that changed my reading plans for that day.  For me, these new books have ranged from disappointing to very good, even if I haven’t bothered to review them yet.  A Killing […]

“What is a whole life? If you die when you’re still a child, is your life whole or half or zero?”

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

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When a boy suddenly vanishes in a slum in India, 9-year-old Jai, who likes to watch police shows on TV, decides to solve the case with the help of his friends Pari and Faiz. While they try to look for clues over the next few weeks, more children go missing which causes the already existing tension between Muslims and Hindus to increase dangerously. A corrupt and indifferent police, extreme poverty, religious and ethnic conflicts, the constant threat of the neighbourhood being demolished, child labour, and […]

“That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view.”

Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver

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Bingo Square: Friendship Liesl is an orphan. She has been locked in an attack by her horrible stepmother and hasn’t been outside in months. Sometimes she sits by the window to draw, and there a young boy named Will watches her from the street. One night a ghost appears to Liesl. He is Po. And he will help her escape the attic. Will is an alchemist’s apprentice. One night he is tasked with taking a very important box to a very important woman, but instead […]

Stan Lee and the Novel that Doesn’t Work

A Trick of Light by Stan Lee, Kat Rosenfield

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Bingo Review 21: No Money I don’t remember the exact circumstance, probably some kind of short term promotion, but Stan Lee’s A Trick of Light was a freebie download for the Kindle, and I kind of wanted to read it, so I downloaded it. The book then sat in my Kindle library for the entire time between its initial release and now. I have to say, finally having gotten to it, I’m glad I didn’t pay anything for this one. I’d have felt a little […]

The very human connection between a young woman and an alien

Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis

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The year is 2007. Fergie’s latest single is playing on the radio and Bush is president. I wasn’t expecting so many cultural references in Axiom’s End, but the first chapter along sent me spiraling back to my 17 self in junior year of high school. Thankfully, the cultural references stop there, lest this book turn into a derivative of Ready Player One. Cora is just trying to make it in LA. She helps raise her two younger siblings with her mom. Their dad, Nils, complicates […]

Was Tracy Flick the proto nasty woman?

Election by Tom Perrotta

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Cbr12bingo adaptation, Bingo #3 (vertical, Music to Violet) The movie version of this novel came out in 1999, and I have never seen it in full so I cannot tell you how faithful it is to the book. But I can say that this is a really fun read, and pretty quick. Author Tom Perrotta employs a variety of characters as narrators recalling the events of a few short weeks in the spring of 1992. One might not think that a high school election for […]



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