Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

We Thought We Knew Ye

Endless Night by Agatha Christie

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Read as part of cbr13bingo: fauna. There’s a raven on the cover. Endless Night is the rare Agatha Christie standalone and I’m finding that between this, A Pale Horse, and And Then There Were None, I’m finding that I may enjoy her standalone works more than those that feature her superstar heroes Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. (A Crooked House may be the exception to this rule. That’s one I liked a lot less than I thought I would.) I think without the need to shoehorn the large personality and abrasive, […]

Another delectable romance from Lucy Parker

Battle Royal by Lucy Parker

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CBR13 Bingo: Self Care Sylvie Fairchild rose to moderate fame four years ago as a popular contestant on the hit baking show, Operation Cake. The moment she both ended her time on the show and immortalised herself on the internet forever was when her sparkly unicorn cake went horribly wrong and hit icy and arrogant baking judge Dominic De Vere got a sparkly hoof straight in the forehead. Now Sylvie has fulfilled her dream of running a bakery, Sugar Fair, in one of the hottest […]

“There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.”

Turn Coat (Dresden Files #11) by Jim Butcher

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In one word: Satisfying Cannonball Read Bingo: Landscape Oh hello there. It’s me again. With Dresden again. I gotta say, writing up reviews for these books has become an interesting exercise. I can’t remember when I have read a series this long (like, ever), and am doing so basically back-to-back, so being here again fills me with a strange deja vu. Plus writing these reviews is a special challenge because I like to be spoiler-free in my observations so I don’t want to get to […]

Only mildly witchin’

The Winter Witch by Paula Brackston

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I like a good witch/supernatural story every now and then, so pulled this one off my shelf (cbr13bingo shelfie!) Brackston’s novel centers on Cai, a Welsh drover, and his new wife Morgana. Being a drover requires a wife, to assure the townspeople that the drover will return with their money after talking the village flocks to the London markets. Accordingly, even though Cai is not yet entirely over the death of his beloved first wife, he proposes to and marries Morgana, a younger woman from […]

Wedding belle

Once Upon a Wedding by Nancy Millar

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Last year I read a graveyard themed Nancy Millar history book (Remember Me as I Pass By) and this year I turned to something lighter, a book about weddings in western Canada. Like Remember Me, Once Upon a Wedding is armchair-light history, a brief romp back through western Canadian weddings from the 1800s through to the 1940s. Millar’s eye is drawn to newspaper announcements of weddings, old family photos and heirloom wedding dresses, and I once again did a lot of googling to see if […]

The tail wagging the dog

Hoax by Brian Stelter

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Certain of my family members are very into politics (and skepticism), so there is a steady diet of political non-fiction streaming into our house. I usually ignore these in favor of novels or more business-y or memoir-y non-fiction, but I was drawn in by the ‘behind the scenes in the Trump whitehouse’ promise of Stelter’s book. Stelter is a journalist, formerly with the NYT and now with CNN, and has spent over 2 decades covering DC politics. Hoax traces the tightly interwoven rise of right […]



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