Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Funny but a little bit dated in LGBTQ+ depiction

Practical Demonkeeping: Pine Cove Series, 1 by Christopher Moore

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CBR 13 Bingo: Self Care and Bingo #3!- I listened to this book while taking my daily health stomps to take care of myself. Rarely do my book reviews elicit any reactions or comments on my Facebook page but my review of Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal had multiple friends commenting how much they love Christopher Moore and the next book I need to read is Practical Demonkeeping. So once I completed listening to the Dresden Files short stories, I used the […]

“We can’t expect one person – or even two – to take on the entire burden of resisting on their shoulders. We all have to stand up and say NO.”

The Everlasting Rose by Dhonielle Clayton

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CBR 13 Bingo: Flora The Everlasting Rose is the sequel to Dhonielle Clayton’s  The Belles.  To quote myself regarding The Belles, “This was fantasy the likes of which I haven’t read before, full of decadence and frippery, a magic system based on beauty, and I was entranced.”  The Everlasting Rose is a different beast of a book compared to its predecessor as it is a fugitive and resistance story. The soon to be new Queen of Orleans, Sophia, is setting the pieces in place for a […]

It’s not you, it’s me. I think?

Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

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Bingo: Travel. (This novel takes place in my home country, the Netherlands. I moved away 14 years ago and haven’t been back in four years – I miss it so much! It was interesting reading an outsider’s perspective of the Netherlands, though the country largely functions as a backdrop.) An unnamed, young woman moves from New York to The Hague, after the death of her father. She has taken on a new job as interpreter at the International Court, where she has to translate for […]

A surprise from the past

The Listening House by Mabel Seeley

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Bingo: Fauna It’s 1938. Gwynne Dacres is a young, divorced copywriter who has just been sacked because of a mistake her boss made. Having to make ends meet on a tighter budget, she finds a cheap set of rooms in a boarding house owned by a Mrs Garr. While her new lodgings and neighbors seem fine at first, it’s not long before a dead body shows up. And then another one. Gwynne sets out to discover what is happening inside the house, and before long […]

“…wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

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Cbr13bingo Travel This short, internationally acclaimed novel reads like a parable. The Alchemist is the story of a young man, simply known as “the boy”, in his quest to find his treasure. Similar to other literary quests or odysseys, the young man will encounter those who help him as well as obstacles along the way, but it is the internal journey he takes, the things he learns, that matter most. The Alchemist is a very spiritual book that emphasizes the connectedness of all things and […]

They would have gotten away with it too…

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

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CBR13 Bingo: Book Club (the July selection of my fantasy/sci-fi book club here in Oslo. I read it in early June) Official book description: The surviving members of a forgotten teenage detective club (and their dog) must reunite as broken adults to finally solve the terrifying case that ruined them all and sent the wrong man to prison. Scooby Doo and the gang never had to do this! 1990. The teen detectives once known as the Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small […]



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