Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The GOAT

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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Cbr13bingo Self care Pride and Prejudice is my favorite novel of all time. As I believe I have related before, it is the first and only book that I’ve read which, upon finishing for the first time, I immediately returned to page one and read it all over again. For many years, I did a reread around the holidays as a gift to myself. My first ebook download was Pride and Prejudice. I’ve seen a couple of the adaptations (the definitive A&E/Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle series, […]

Corporate teambuilding retreat goes terribly wrong

Force of Nature by Jane Harper

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CBRbingo: Landscape Sense of place is Jane Harper’s trademark as an author, and this is no exception.  In her sequel to The Dry she takes forensic accountant Aaron Falk well out of his element, into Victoria’s dense’ly forested high country. A corporate teambuilding exercise has gone terribly wrong.  Four women make it to the rendesvouz point half a day late, exhausted, hungry, injured.  Abrasive Alice is missing.  “In the chaos, in the night, it was impossible to say which of the four has asked after Alice’s […]

“That is the significant part of telling our own stories: by doing so, we demonstrate our cultural continuance.”

Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection Volumes 1-3 by Hope Nicholson, Elizabeth LaPensee, and Michael Sheyahshe, editors

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Cbr13bingo rep That quote in the title of these reviews comes from Michael Sheyahshe’s introduction to Moonshot: Volume 1 and it serves as a rallying cry for all three volumes. The Moonshot series, published in 2015, 2017 and 2019, is, as the title says, a collection of comics written and drawn by Indigenous writers and artists. These volumes were also published and distributed by Avani and Inhabit Education Books, which are Inuit owned. The reason for the volumes is pretty obvious — Indigenous people have […]

I was today years old when I discovered this book and I are pretty much the same age

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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3.5 stars CBR13 Bingo: Machinery (space ships, the guide, Marvin – a lot of examples) Arthur Dent wakes up one morning to discover his house is about to be bulldozed. He’s very upset about it and goes to lie down in front of one of the bulldozers, so it can’t knock down his house, but is interrupted by his friend Ford Prefect, who has some very important things to tell him, and very little time left to do so. It turns out Ford Prefect is […]

Dresden short stories made for enjoyable health stomps

Side Jobs by Jim Butcher

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CBR 13 Bingo Square: Old Series – The first Dresden Files book, Storm Front, was published April, 1st 2000 Side Jobs contains eleven short stories, little adventures that happen between the novels.  Some were written for promotional reasons and some were written at the invitation of anthology editors.  These stories occur from before Storm Front to just after Changes.  This was my first audio book experience and I enjoyed it immensely.  Ardaigle’s waxing rhapsodic over James Marster’s narration convinced me that I needed to hear it for myself.  […]

Things are different in Wales

Ivon by Michael Aylwin

Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

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CBRBingo – Sportsball and People As I read Ivon, I couldn’t help thinking that this would be a much better book if Jasper Fforde had written it.  Fforde is a master of taking a crazy premise and populating it with such skillfully drawn living breathing humans that the setting becomes real. This is Aylwin’s first novel, and he isn’t there yet. In the world of Ivon, sport is everything.  Set in our future, after a series of pandemics that killed off all but the fittest, almost all of humanity […]



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