Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I think this story should have been told by someone else

Fables vol 7: Arabian Nights by Bill Willingham

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Bingo: Myths (and another bingo, with column 4) This is the 7th volume in the Fables series, and the first to put a focus on non-Western stories. I read the first 6 volumes of Fables years ago and while I enjoyed the setting and the first few stories, it didn’t hook me enough to keep going, so I was curious to see if this collection would spark my interest again. Reader, it did not. There is the seed of a good story in this volume; […]

A girl called Tove – plus, my first (half) cannonball!

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen

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Bingo: Reader’s Choice (Sportsball) CW: abortion, drug addiction Before reading this, I had never heard of Tove Ditlevsen.  I’m not into poetry, and as far as I’m aware have never picked up a book by a Danish writer. But when The Copenhagen Trilogy was re-released earlier this year, it got such glowing reviews that I had to read it. Ditlevsen was born in 1917, and in Childhood she tells her story of growing up poor, with parents who did not understand her, and discovering that she […]

“Hope was no longer a tiny, flickering flame. It was a bonfire.”

Some Assembly Required: A True Story of Love and Organ Transplants by T.J. Condon

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In one word: Authentic Cannonball Read Bingo: Pandemic Full disclosure, TJ is a new acquaintance of mine and I was so excited to support her debut book! I of course was also a little nervous about reading it, what if I didn’t like it, how would I review it honestly? But no worries there, this book is (somehow) a refreshing and fun look at how both she and her husband survived her husband’s liver transplant, with their humor and marriage still intact. As a human […]

There Goes The Neighborhood

Echo Park by Michael Connelly

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Read as part of CBR13Bingo: Cityscape. My cover has a cityscape photo of Los Angeles in the background, with Echo Park presumably in the foreground. As I said in my last review of a Michael Connelly book (City of Bones, which I liked), you know from the start usually whether or not it’s going to be a good Harry Bosch tale. This one was lacking, though it had its moments. A seasoned mystery reader is going to see how a story like this unfolds from […]

Even the sophomore slump is a great read

Tris's Book by Tamora Pierce

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BINGO – Landscape (technically a seascape, but I think it counts) We pick up with the four powerful mage children Sandry, Tris, Daja, and Briar not long after the earthquake that struck Winding Circle in Sandry’s Book. The earthquake has damaged many of the Winding Circles defenses, and pirates threaten to invade the surrounding villages and Winding Circle itself to steal priceless magical tomes and artifacts, as well as take mages as slaves. The four children and their teachers must fight against the pirates in any […]

Every man you ever meet is nothing but the product of what was withheld from him, what he feels owed.

What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad

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CBR13 BINGO: Travel (Alexandria Egypt to a Mediterranean island) BINGO! (Free to Machinery row) I love it when CBR Bingo brings something into my life that I may not have picked up otherwise. On the hunt for the “Travel” square, this title jumped out from the new book display at my library and turned out to be one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. When bodies wash up on a small Mediterranean island, the local officials gather the remains and comb through the detritus of […]



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