Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Yet another book to save for when you’re not hungry

The Professor Next Door by Jackie Lau

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CBR13 Bingo: Pandemic This book was granted to me as an ARC from the author in return for an honest review. I had already pre-ordered the book, as Jackie Lau is now an auto-buy for me. While this is technically the third entry in the Cider Bar Sisters series, each of the books in the series works perfectly well as a stand-alone. The first book in the series, Her Big City Neighbor is currently available free, however (as of me writing this), so if you’re […]

Ghostbusting doesn’t so much make them feel good as is absolutely necessary to fix a foolish mistake they made

Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega

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Lucely (pronounced Lu-sell-i, at least by the audio book narrator) Luna may be living alone with her father (her mother left them when Lucely was little) but due to an unusual family legacy, she’s able to see the presence of all the family’s departed members. Her father, who once had the gift, can only see them as fireflies but accepts that they’re there and cooks massive meals to provide for all the extended members who keep Lucely company. The family spirits are all tied to […]

Code Switching Times Two

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

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Cbr13bingo Book Club (Good Morning America Book Club selection) The J.P. Morgan Library in New York is world renowned for its manuscript and art collections thanks to its first librarian Belle da Costa Greene. She served as J.P. Morgan’s first and only personal librarian from 1905-1913, and then as the librarian for the Morgan Library until 1948. Belle became famous in her time with J.P. Morgan because she was the only woman working in a field of trained specialists and wealthy collectors from around the […]

Women’s pain manifested as madness

Animal by Lisa Taddeo

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The world had set me up to believe that it was women who went mad. It was simply women’s pain that manifested as madness. Bingo: People CW: rape, sexual assault, suicide Joan has just witnessed a man shooting himself in a crowded restaurant, where she was eating dinner with her lover, a married man. After this traumatic event, she decides to drive from New York to California, looking for a woman named Alice, who she thinks can help her unravel her past. One of the […]

A raging fire that begins to surface

The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado

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Bingo: Gateway TW for the book: rape, sexual assault, stereotypical red-headed pimpled misogynistic teenage boys. If creepy settings, queer POC characters, and reckoning with sexual assault are your thing, this is your book. I went into this comic TP completely blind, having picked it up only because I knew Carmen Maria Machado was the writer behind it. Machado can do no wrong as far as I’m concerned, she’s a stunning writer. El and Vee are best friends living in the town of Shudder-To-Think, Pennsylvania, where […]

Master class on subtlety

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

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CBRBingo: White Whale My local book club is reading classics this year, and this was our April selection.  I had seen the movie with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson back in the 90s, but had never read the book, even though I had it in my huge Unread folder on my Kindle. This book is a master class on subtlety, the story of a man who inhabits a role that is increasingly out of place in his world.  A butler, son of a butler, he […]



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