Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A review that’s taken me over a month to actually write

The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn

An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn

Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

To Sir Philip, With Love by Julia Quinn

When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn

It's In His Kiss by Julia Quinn

On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn

The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After by Julia Quinn

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So, The Bridgertons series came out on Netflix on Christmas Day 2020, and I binge-watched the entire series that day.  Then I proceeded to binge-read the book series, which admittedly to longer than a day. (I did knock out five of them in one day, though!)  Each of the main book reviews also features a “Shitty parent scale” for that book!  So, here are my thoughts on the Bridgertons:   The Duke and I   This is the book the Netflix series is based on.  […]

“The whole place had the look of a picked-at-body. But damn! What a beautiful corpse.”

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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This book has received so much hype and lived up to every bit of praise it has received!  Thank you, Cannonballers for putting this on my radar and keeping it there.  I’m almost at a loss to review Gideon the Ninth since so many of y’all have done so already.  Here is a list of things that I enjoyed immensely, in no particular order: 1 – Muir’s word choices.  It’s delightful to be confronted with an unfamiliar word and Muir did it more in this […]

Darling it’s better down where it’s wetter.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

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  I listened to this book via the podcast Phoebe Reads a Mystery which is voiced by Phoebe Judge of the famed Criminal Podcast. She reads one to two chapters a day of a classic mystery (though I’m not sure if this most recent selection qualifies). This book follows a reluctant passenger aboard the Nautilus, a submarine which must have seemed truly fantastical the time of the book’s 1869 publication, and it’s secretive Captain Nemo. French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax has, along with his faithful servant […]

God is Change

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

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Add this one to the list of books I wish I’d read in my teens rather than a butt load of Stephen King. Octavia Butler’s frighteningly prescient dystopian novel needs to be added to every high school curriculum. It is a story of economic and societal collapse, climate disaster and survival in the face of unspeakable pain and loss. It’s a difficult read but none of the horrors feel gratuitous. It comes with many trigger warnings; rape, harm to children, harm to animals and fires. […]

Tourists and revolutionaries and crocodiles – oh my!

Tourist Season by Carl Hiaason

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Described as a Miami Vice-esque caper and a fun getaway, I gave Tourist Season by Carl Hiaason a try. I’ve never actually watched Miami Vice and other than the main characters wearing pastel blazers, I have limited knowledge about the eighties hit. I went in blindly and it was definitely an interesting experience. Told vibrantly through an eighties lens in Miami, Florida, the story follows former reporter and current private investigator Brian Keyes as he tries to uncover a slew of murders targeting tourists during—get […]

I think I’m in the minority on this one: I don’t think I liked this book?

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Morena-Garcia

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After reading and enjoying Turn of the Screw, I craved more gothic literature. Silvia Morena-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic kept popping up on booklists everywhere, so I thought I’d give it a try. It’s now been three days since I finished the novel and I think I finally figured out how I feel about it. Set in 1950s Mexico, Mexican Gothic follows Noemí Taboada’s journey to conduct a wellness check on her cousin Catalina at the behest of her father. Catalina lives in a remote mountain town […]



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