Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Remembering

Rememberings: Scenes From My Complicated Life by Sinead O’Connor

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Cbr13bingo Pandemic This book got a lot of attention when it was released a few months ago, largely because of a story O’Connor tells about Prince which puts him in a none-too-flattering light. As far as I’m concerned though this memoir is more impressive for the honesty and soul-bearing of its author. Full disclosure: I have been a fan of Sinead O’Connor since I first heard the single “Mandinka” in 1987/88. She is one of those female artists who have been kicked around over the […]

A return to the beginning. Sort of.

A Terrible Fall of Angels by Laurell K. Hamilton

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A Terrible Fall of Angels is the first in a new series by Laurell K. Hamilton. It is much more akin to her early Anita Blake novels than anything she has written since Narcissus in Chains (including the Merry Gentry novels). Centering on Det. Zaniel “Havoc” Havelock, a detective in the Los Angeles police department’s Metaphysical Coordination Unit, aka the Heaven and Hell Unit. This is a Los Angeles where angels and demons walk amongst us, and children are taken from their parents at a […]

This way lies madness. And it is glorious.

A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor by Kathryn Moon

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Y’all. Y’all. Y’ALL. I really don’t know where to start with this one. At the beginning, I suppose. I have recently fallen down the rabbit hole that is TikTok. It took awhile for the algorithm to figure me out, but eventually it got me to BookTok. Specifically SmutTok. It was here that I first heard of a novel by Kathryn Moon entitled A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor. I cannot believe that I am about to type this particular combination of words, but here goes: For […]

“Nothing is inevitable, and you always have to go back farther than you expect.”

The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

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CBRBingo: They/She/He – Non-binary author On their podcast Our Opinions are Correct, Annalee Newitz describes themself as a “science journalist who writes science fiction”. I love the podcast and the novels of their co-host and life partner Charlie Jane Anderson, so I thought it was time to check out Newitz’s work for the They/She/He bingo square. Timetravelling, feminist science fiction is most definitely right up my alley.  The world of this novel is a sidestep from our own, much the same, but clearly on a different timeline.  […]

An 11-year-old chemistry enthusiast explores potions, pies and philately

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

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In March, Myanmar was descending into near-daily violence under a junta about a month in after the military ousted democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi from power in a lightning-quick coup. Sixteen-hour days were common for our newsroom in Bangkok as we tried to navigate safety concerns for our reporting staff in Yangon, while dealing with a really intense news cycle. Any time off I had, I just couldn’t do anything “serious” — I stopped watching dramas and switched to 20-minute comedies. I re-downloaded a […]

More superheroine action and romance!

Heroine Worship by Sarah Kuhn

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CBR 13 Bingo: Rec’d – I’m reading this series because of teresaelectro’s recommendation! Heroine Worship is the second book in Sarah Kuhn’s “Heroine Complex” series.  In the first volume, Heroine Complex  Evie Tanaka is a restrained, quiet assistant and best friend of super heroine, Aveda Jupiter, with a secret, she’s been hiding her own fire superpower.  This time around, Aveda is the narrator and the story picks up about three months after the events in the first novel.  It is discovered that a minor demon is […]



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