Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

More Charm than Trick – it’s a magical heist!

The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope

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CBR14Bingo: Monster – Uh, it’s in the title? OK, ok. The Enigmas Clara deals with are pretty monstrous, and the villain does some pretty terrible and monstrous things. While I don’t read too many historicals any more, I have a definite thing for magical ones. And since I loved the author’s previous fantasy series, I was especially curious to see where she would go with this book. Well, my curiousity was well-rewarded. After all, it’s a magical heist novel! Clara was born with the ability to […]

Well, this series took an unexpected turn

The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley

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CBR14 BINGO: Cozy, because these books qualify as cozy mysteries, what with all the murders happening in this small village, always being discovered by an 11-year-old detective When I first met Flavia de Luce in The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, I wasn’t 100% sure whether I liked her. After a couple more books, I had warmed to her, because the girl can really grow on a person. By the time I picked up The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, I was curious […]

The Kind of Fame That’ll Warp My Brain

Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir by Wil Wheaton

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CBR Bingo: Star (Both because Wheaton is a celebrity, and also because of Star Trek) It feels like there’s been a lot of talk lately about child stars, what with Jennette McCurdy’s book coming out and the recent allegations against Fred Savage. Between all that, reading Still Just a Geek, and reading snippets from House of Hilton about Kim Richards, I’m starting to think maybe we should just ban Hollywood from using child actors? In the early 2000s, Will Wheaton published a book of essays (Just a Geek) […]

Good Job, Pickle

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

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CBR Bingo: Font I picked Holly Jackson’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder for the font square because the book has a lot of different fonts in the text. The book uses a variety fonts to indicate things like the main character Pippa’s interview transcripts, text messages between characters, hand-written notes about the crime, and a scary note that shows up in formal font warning Pippa away from her investigation. I have a fondness (font-ness! hahahaha) for handwriting fonts, and there are some good ones […]

“The three of them sat there – a Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save.”

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

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CBR14 Bingo: “Snake” – A character lies to a partner for fear of reprisal.  The same charac ter under goes physical transformation due to heritage and the gifts of a goddess, which includes healing. An alternate 1912 Cairo with lady investigators and magic?  Yes, please!  40 years previous magic was reintroduced to the world and djinn were released by the magician, al’Jahiz.  After a fraught time, djinn were integrated into Egyptian society.  They have since used their abilities to bring wonderous, magical and mechanical inventions […]

The Beginning of the End Hopefully Doesn’t Go On For Too Long

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes vol. 12 by Hideyuki Furuhashi, Betten Court, Kohei Horikoshi

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Bingo 13: Series My Hero Academia is a pretty popular well-known manga series; surprisingly it’s main manga spin-off is also quite popular; usually the spin-off is only kinda popular or short-lived. My Hero Academia: Vigilantes is kind of a prequel and it’s recently concluded, although I’m not quite to that point myself. Volume 12 definitely seems like it’s part of a final arc though, especially since a good chunk of it is what I suspect is meant to be revealing backstory. I’m guessing that giving […]



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