Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

It was happening again. Another fight with narrow-minded, hateful people.

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

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CBR BINGO: Shelfie (because I had this sitting on my shelf wayyyyyyy past it’s library due date.) Book 3 in the Court of Thorns and Roses DID NOT DISAPPOINT. Breaking what I call “the third book slump” in most series, this book was by far my favorite. My devotion to these characters is getting deep, people. I’m in Outlander love territory here. I can see its shortcomings. I recognize the sometimes messy history and repetitive phrasing, but, I’m all in. This is a book about […]

She Has It In Spades

The Audacity by TV's Katherine Ryan

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BINGO: Fauna: Her dog is on the cover with her. Best for: Fans of humorous but also heartfelt memoirs. In a nutshell: TV’s Katherine Ryan shares her story, from growing up in Sarnia, Canada, to making her way in the comedy world, to the different ways she has built her family. Worth quoting: N/A (Audio book) Why I chose it: As a middle-aged white woman living in the UK, I think I’m legally required to at least watch one of her comedy specials. But I […]

A modern view of Greek myths

Circe by Madeline Miller

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This was a double book club book for me. My college book club picked it, and then my local club read it as well (because I suggested it). So Book Club square on the Bingo for this one. I was vaguely aware of the story of Circe from the Odyssey, she was a sorceress on an island that Odysseus and his ships stopped at, and she turned the men to pigs. This is (apparently) a feminist retelling. As it is a retelling of an old […]

“Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion.”

Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky by Thylias Moss

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I picked up Thylias Moss’s Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky through a variety of reading challenge tasks (Read Harder’s read a book of nature poems, Read Women’s tasks about a book about the natural world, a collection of poetry by a black woman), book club squares (Going with The Wilds), and some internet sleuthing. While I find it difficult to review poetry, I can tell you that I agree with the book’s blurb, it is a powerful book with poems that present the […]

Up Close and Personal

Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

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Read as part of CBR13Bingo: uncannon. The novelist is of Japanese descent and her book comes from the perspective a non-white character.  Reading Intimacies was a beautiful struggle. I wanted to like it more than I did. It has a lot going for it. But it’s kind of a donut book in that there’s a big hole in the middle: we know almost nothing at all about the protagonist. There’s little about her background, who she is, what her interests are, etc. Katie Kitamura even withholds her name. […]

Tense and Suspenseful

The Janes by Louisa Luna

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CBR Bingo: Landscape My whole plan this year of picking up series I’d abandoned kind of got, well, abandoned when Bingo started, but I was glad I found a square for this series as I enjoyed the first book quite a bit. Series: Alice Vega. This is Book #2, I read (and reviewed) Book #1 in 2020. What I remembered about this series prior to reading this book: I remembered the two main characters, Alice Vega (the no-nonsense, prone to explosive violence PI) and Max […]



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