Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Rights of Women and Machines

The Haunting of Tramcar 015 by P. Djeli Clark

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Bingo 14: Machinery The Haunting of Tramcar 015 takes place in the same world as many of the author’s other works, a steampunk alternative history version of Cairo. The titular tramcar is a major part of the setting, the plot, and we even get some attention to the technical specs on how the tech is supposed to work; thus I would argue this novella/novelette qualifies for the technology focus square. The other reason for the label is that there’s a pretty detailed discussion of whether […]

When the only person who knows all the secrets is six

Spy x Family vol 5 by Tatsuya Endo

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Bingo 13: Self Care I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned in previous reviews that I tend to turn to manga and comics for comfort reading. One of my current favorite series is Spy X Family, in which a husband, wife, and daughter are gathered and have to present an ideal picture to the world, but things can get awkward at home since everyone has a major secret: Dad is a spy, Mom’s an assassin, Bond the dog who gets premonitions of the future, and daughter is […]

More superheroine action and romance!

Heroine Worship by Sarah Kuhn

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CBR 13 Bingo: Rec’d – I’m reading this series because of teresaelectro’s recommendation! Heroine Worship is the second book in Sarah Kuhn’s “Heroine Complex” series.  In the first volume, Heroine Complex  Evie Tanaka is a restrained, quiet assistant and best friend of super heroine, Aveda Jupiter, with a secret, she’s been hiding her own fire superpower.  This time around, Aveda is the narrator and the story picks up about three months after the events in the first novel.  It is discovered that a minor demon is […]

I wish I was better at baking

Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall

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CBR13 Bingo: Libations (the whole setting of the book is a televised baking show, so there are a lot of both sweet and savoury baked treats in the story and featured on the cover) Official book description: Following the recipe is the key to a successful bake. Rosaline Palmer has always lived by those rules—well, except for when she dropped out of college to raise her daughter, Amelie. Now, with a paycheck as useful as greaseproof paper and a house crumbling faster than biscuits in tea, she’s […]

Scrivers Create Marvellous Machines, Contend with Unspeakable Powers

Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett

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  I don’t know what my problem is, really I don’t. I love Robert Jackson Bennett’s works. And I really loved Foundryside, the first book in his Founders Trilogy. I knew Shorefall had been released Why did I take so long to get to it? Is it the pandemic? I’m going to blame the pandemic. Foundryside was a glorious blend of magical and political drama that had a really interesting premise: what if coding—known here as scriving—was actually magic, leaving to the development of whole […]

It Took 37 Years to Finish This Book

The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey

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CBR – Cityscape (London) When I was 15, I went to a choral camp in Pennsylvania. I lived in a city just outside the Bronx and hadn’t traveled very much; mostly to my grandparents’ houses in New Jersey and Massachusetts. I remember being just terrified on the ride there and overcome with shyness once I arrived. I was an alto, but a poor one. While I played the flute and could read music, I couldn’t read music when I sang. The camp was directed by […]



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