Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“There’s really no point in asking what if? The only question worth asking is: what’s next?”

Me: Elton John Official Autobiography by Elton John

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Bingo Square: Repeat (Music) He’s a music legend, what else can you say? This book takes the reader through the entirety of Elton John’s life, from his early years in the London suburb of Pinner, where he is a lonely only child with a disinterested father (and parents who really shouldn’t be together anymore), to his early shows in America that rocket him to stardom, his drug addiction and getting clean and his family life that he has now. Written in a way that you […]

The ties that bind us

The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel

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Bingo Square: Music Gavin is a little lost. After making it as a journalist in New York, his girlfriend has left him and he spirals into making up quotes for his stories. Found out and fired, he heads back to his hometown in Florida, humiliated. He also suffers terribly from heat stroke, an affliction he’s escaped on leaving. Taking a job with his sister, she shows him a photo of a child that resembles her and has Gavin’s ex-girlfriend’s last name. The timeline fits. Is […]

Return to the Arena

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

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Bingo Square: Green Suzanne Collins is back with another book in the Hunger Games world. This time it’s a prequel, following Coriolanus Snow – later President Snow, of course – as he navigates the world of the Capitol. 18 Years old, the once glorious house of Snow is struggling. Their money is gone, and all that’s left is their penthouse apartment and their class status. Snow needs to make it to graduation and go to university in an attempt to keep himself, his grandmother and […]

Sarah J. Maas – now with a whole lot of supernatural creatures and more swearing

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

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#CBR12 Bingo: Red Official book description: Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. By day, she works for an antiquities dealer, selling barely legal magical artifacts, and by night, she parties with her friends, savoring every pleasure Lunathion—otherwise known as Crescent City— has to offer. But it all comes crumbling down when a ruthless murder shakes the very foundations of the city—and Bryce’s world. Two years later, her job has become a dead end, and she now seeks only blissful oblivion in the city’s most […]

Sth, I know that woman.

Jazz by Toni Morrison

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CBR12 Bingo – UnCannon This is a reread so my review is going to wander at times and focus on singular parts of the story. I also listened this audiobook while the last time I read it, I read it straight. I also was strangely walking around Richmond as I listened and they’ve been taking down Confederate statues this week and they’ve be scrubbing and cleaning up spaces not Confederate (or linked) also tagged by graffiti, so there’s a funny contrast of what the city […]

This would be an excellent introduction to science fiction

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

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#CBR12Bingo: Gateway (this would work as an excellent gateway into sci-fi fiction) All Systems Red – 4.5 stars I have reviewed this first novella before, back in 2018, and my original post can be found here. I decided to re-read this first Murderbot story and then read the following three novellas in preparation of the full novel about everyone’s favourite misanthropic sec unit, being released in May 2020. By now, when I’ve finally gotten around to writing my review, the book has of course been out for […]



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