Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

All Aboard the Murderbot Bandwagon!

All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

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Another shoutout to Emmalita for the gift of these two books, the first in Martha Wells’ Murderbot series. The Murderbot Diaries have been reviewed often and glowingly here on CBR and my reviews will not be much different! I am loving this series and will absolutely be reading the rest.  Murderbot is the name that the main character has given itself. It is a SecUnit, i.e., a security unit, that is a hybrid of robotic and human parts. SecUnits are equipment rented out to research […]

Slight prequel to Cormac Reilly series

The Sisters by Dervla McTiernan

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This prequel to Dervla McTiernan’s Cormac Reilly series takes us back to the beginning of Carrie Ryan’s career, when she was a keen young constable striving to break into the detective boys’ club.  Carrie is diligent, with excellent investigative instincts and people skills, but she is beginning to realise that this may be less useful in building a career than being accepted as one of the lads. Carrie shares a small studio apartment with her sister Aifric, a junior barrister who has yet to build […]

“In the stories, there was a sense of justice. Everything had a purpose…I thought if those heroes and heroines from the stories could keep going forward into the darkness, so could I.”

Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson

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Cytonic is the third book in Brandon Sanderson’s “Skyward Series”.  Here are reviews for book one Skyward and book two Starsight .  In my review for Starsight I wondered if the pandemic would affect Cytonic being released in late 2021, fortunately through what sounded like a lot of hard work editing and deadlines, he and his team succeeded.  When I set out to read Skyward I thought it was a standalone novel and had mixed emotions to find out it wasn’t.  Excited because there was more but a little […]

We’re all idiots

Anxious People: A Novel by Fredrik Backman

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I think this might be the perfect novel to start the year, and it is certainly an excellent choice for the times we live in. For the CBR13 gift exchange, I listed Fredrik Backman as an author I would like to read, and Emmalita was kind enough to gift Anxious People to me. This novel is delightful. It’s frequently hilarious, with a truly daft kind of humor, but it also displays tremendous heart and kindness to the point of tears for me. The story does […]

Who wouldn’t want to be saved from this world of pain?

Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas

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Damascus is the story of Saul of Tarsus, Saint Paul, the man who took the message of Yeshua the saviour to the Strangers.  It is also the story of a cult struggling to become a religion, outliving its founders, pulled in different directions by followers who have built their hope of salvation on their own suffering , struggling to hold onto their belief in the kingdom to come, that surely should be here by now.  “He is risen.  .. Truly, he is risen. … He is […]



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