Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Oooh, Nice Twist

The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison

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BINGO: Free: My colleague gave this to me when she finished reading it. Best for: Fans of mysteries told from a couple of different perspectives. In a nutshell: Jodi and Todd have been together for 20 years, though they aren’t married. Todd regularly cheats on Jodi. Todd has gotten his latest paramour, Natalie, pregnant. Natalie is the daughter of one of Todd’s childhood friends, Dean. Events transpire. Worth quoting: Really anything Todd from Todd’s perspective was so representative of how I imagine oblivious vaguely misogynistic […]

Pandemic Bingo Square: The Therapist

The Therapist by B.A. Paris

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I’m using this as my PANDEMIC bingo square.  I’ve read several of B.A. Paris’s books: Behind Closed Doors, The Breakdown, Bring Me Back…. And I generally enjoy them. This one is also generally enjoyable.  The plot: Alice and Leo have been dating for a little over a year when they decide to move to The Circle – an exclusive, gated neighborhood in London with 12 houses (kind of like a clock). Alice is surprised when Leo gets the house for a very reasonable price given […]

Eat Up

The Dinner by Herman Koch

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Read as part of CBR13Bingo: Libations.  Truthfully, this should be a “White Whale” read. I’ve been putting this one off for years and I further buried it when I wasn’t impressed with the beginning of Herman Koch’s Dear Mr. M. In fact, I probably wouldn’t have picked up a copy had I not been stuck at a bookstore with money burning a hole in my pocket and nothing else looking appealing. Sometimes, I make bad decisions regarding impulse book purchases. This is not one of those times. […]

Why did I sit on this? I should have trusted Jemisin more, I blame the pandemic

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

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CBR Bingo Square: Cityscape (To Y’all with a physical copy, did you use Google Lens to look at the animated cover?  If not, and you have Google Lens, I recommend checking it out!) I was hyped for The City We Became coming off How Long ’til Black Future Month and the Hugo Award winning run on “The Broken Earth” trilogy.  However, the first chapter of TCWB was the same as a short story in HLtBFM and for some reason this made it difficult for me to get […]

BINGO! Finally

Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

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Any time I don’t know what to read, I revert to Pratchett. There’s something comforting about the characters and the setting, of knowing you’re going back to a place that will both make you laugh and make you think. So I knew as soon as I saw the “old series” square, that it would have to be a Pratchett. I read Unseen Academicals  for the first time back in 2012. I had not yet returned to the shining ivory tower of professional academia, but I […]

Gateway Bingo Square: The Cousins

The Cousins by Karen M. McManus

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I’m using this as my GATEWAY square for bingo, because I think it’s a great place to jump into the world of YA teen intrigue and Karen M. McManus in general.  I’m familiar with McManus’s work because of One of Us is Lying, which I very much enjoyed. I haven’t yet watched the series, but that one book was enough for me to want to read more.  The Cousins follows the tradition of teens solving a mystery on an island. It’s almost gothic in the […]



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