Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I liked it, even though it could use more dragons

A Natural History of Dragons, A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan

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CBR BINGO: Monster, because there be dragons in here! BINGO: Rec’d, Monster, Verse, Bird, Time First of all, I love this image on the cover. The idea of a naturalist who studies dragons is appealing to me, as someone who a) enjoys naturalist memoirs and b) enjoys fantasy. The marriage of science and fantasy appeals to my nature, and I was very excited to read this book. And, I enjoyed it. But I didn’t love it as I hoped. A Natural History of Dragons is […]

Taking the Font category literally for a Bingo!

Just My Type, A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield

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CBR 14 BINGO: Font, because this book is literally about typefaces, which consist of fonts BINGO: Shadow, Adapt, Funky, Scandal, Font Before reading this book, I considered myself a bit of a typography geek, because I take pleasure in selecting the most perfect typeface for any situation, and also because I have seen the documentary Helvetica. I realize now, though, that I do not deserve that title, because I clearly do not know enough about typefaces to be able to distinguish Times New Roman from Georgia […]

The Best is Back

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Read this as part of CBR14bingo: question. I wanted to know who Carrie Soto is and what she is coming back from. Later, I wanted another question answered… I was at a bookstore about a month ago when I heard two people gabbing about Taylor Jenkins Reid’s new book, Carrie Soto Is Back. One began with, “I just finished the book…” and instead of the platitudes I expected, she continued “and I hated it. The lead character was terrible there was nothing else to go on after […]

The Complicated Splinter

The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams by Ben Bradlee, Jr.

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Read as part of CBR14Bingo: star. Ted Williams was one of the biggest stars in baseball history and this biography is worthy of him. When I read Leigh Montville’s Ted Williams: The Biography of An American Hero about ten years ago, I figured that would be the end of my journey with the life of the Splendid Splinter. I liked reading about Williams, I find him interesting, but I didn’t need more than one 500+ page work on his life. When Ben Bradlee, Jr. dropped this 775 page tome […]

Meddling With Time Never Seems to End Well

Chronin Volume 1: The Knife at Your Back by Alison Wilgus

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Bingo 19: Font The font used in Chronin volume 1 is one of the ones that basically looks like a relatively clear print handwriting. It’s too consistent to have ben actually by hand though. Set a few decades in the future, time travel is now a known technology and certain history buff undergraduate students are being allowed strictly regulated time to go study their favorite time periods in situ/tempore. One such student is Mirai who has traveled to 1860s Japan just before a revolution was […]

How a wannabe Sherlock Holmes might live in an Online Dating World (no romance)

The Verifiers by Jane Pek

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Bingo 18: Minds A Sherlock Holmes mystery would count as a Mind-centered story, so why not a Holmesian wannabe? In probably only the lightest twist on the real world, The Verifiers imagines that basically the only way people can find prospective partners in via online services that guide your choices based on compatibility; no one seems to think there’s any other way. The rise in such services also brings doubts about how honest your potential spouse has been about their profile or who they really […]



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