Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The best Discworld book? Maybe! #CBRBINGO – Old Series

Night Watch (Discworld, #29) by Terry Pratchett

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Once again I am about to write an inferior review of a Terry Pratchett book. The problem is compounded here because this is the best Discworld book I’ve read so far. The better the Pratchett book, the more it speaks to me, the more incapable I am of articulating why I loved it so much. I just get so overwhelmed. There couldn’t be a worse time for Sam Vimes to accidentally time travel. He’s literally about to be a father at any moment, and he’s […]

“My heart is so much more than it once was, even if it now beats outside my chest.”

The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec

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BINGO – MYTHIC Angrboda is a thrice burned witch, and a thrice survived witch at that. She once was a seer for the gods, but she was ultimately burned for refusing to tell Odin, king of the gods, of knowledge beyond what anyone should know. After burning thrice and surviving, she escapes to the woods but leaves her heart on the pyre. She finds a cave and makes a home for herself. She strikes up a friendship and trading partnership with a giantess name Skadi […]

Do you already have a vague idea of what self-care is? If yes, you can skip this book

The Witch's Book of Self-Care by Arin Murphy-Hiscock

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BINGO – SELF-CARE Arin Murphy-Hiscock endeavors to instruct in practical self-care through a witch’s lens. She begins with an introduction to what self-care is and isn’t and how the idea of self-care has been co-opted by some many people and industries to make a buck. She then breaks down modes of self-care into Mental and Emotional Self-Care, Physical Self-Care, Spiritual Self-Care, and Household Self-Care. She sprinkles spells, rituals, and recipes throughout as well as practical tips on how to incorporate self-care into one’s daily life. […]

Home Before Dark

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

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This is my #home square for CBR13 bingo.  Home Before Dark was incredibly fun to read! It reminds me of the kind of meta consideration of true crime documentary subjects in a book I recently reviewed, Every Last Fear. This time, it’s a meta consideration of the subjects of a haunted house book.  Along the lines of Amityville Horror, the book at the center of this narrative tells the story of a small family who moved into a large estate called Baneberry Hall in Vermont. […]

Things are different in Wales

Ivon by Michael Aylwin

Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

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CBRBingo – Sportsball and People As I read Ivon, I couldn’t help thinking that this would be a much better book if Jasper Fforde had written it.  Fforde is a master of taking a crazy premise and populating it with such skillfully drawn living breathing humans that the setting becomes real. This is Aylwin’s first novel, and he isn’t there yet. In the world of Ivon, sport is everything.  Set in our future, after a series of pandemics that killed off all but the fittest, almost all of humanity […]

An overload of aerial acrobatics information; now what?

Proximal: An Introduction to Aerial Theory by Dara Minkin

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BINGO – SPORTSBALL Dara Minkin has set out to try and do the impossible: write a book instructing in some of the basic shapes, wraps, and transitions in aerial acrobatics. How do you take a physical movements and describe them in a book? Minkin does what she can and finds a great deal of success in Proximal. Minkin has broken down a series of movements and skills in a progression from beginner to more advanced with the hopes that the reader will be able to understand […]



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