Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Siskel & Ebert Get the Biography Treatment

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer

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The core of Opposable Thumbs is the relationship between Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert and how it turned into the entity “Siskel & Ebert” that still dominates the movie review and criticism landscape more than a decade after the death of its last surviving member. It is the nature of that professional relationship, born from a natural wellspring of competition, which turned into decades of increased media literacy. It began in earnest in 1975, when the two men met for lunch in a Chicago pub […]

Assassins, Princes, & Magical Cats Oh My

Prince and Assassin by Tavia Lark

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Whisper is a Hound, an elite assassin controlled by blood magic.  It’s the only life he’s known.  And his latest mission comes with a reward he’s been waiting for.  It’s an unusual mission though.  Whisper is to infiltrate the court of Prince Julian Sandry, keep him alive until the signal comes, then kill the prince when the signal comes.  Getting into the playboy prince’s good graces isn’t the hard part.  But Whisper quickly finds that beneath the playboy façade, Julian is smart, warm, and caring, […]

More Mystery Than Romance

The Silver Stag by Yasmine Galenorn

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Ember is the child of both Light and Dark Fae, which means she belongs to neither of their worlds.  She makes her living dealing with minor supernatural issues for folks in the greater Seattle Area.  However, when her best friend’s little brother goes missing, Ember is pulled into a world she doesn’t know how to navigate and a lot of danger.  Help appears in the form of Hearne who recruits both Ember and her friend into his agency.  Ember may actually have a found a […]

The Night Of

Prom Mom by Laura Lippman

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Read as part of CBR15bingo: adulthood. The book focuses on people who are moving on to adulthood in the present day after something terrible happened to them in their respective pasts.  Laura Lippman’s been on a roll in the last decade with these standalone novels. This is another winner and while it might not be on the level of Sunburn or Dream Girl, it’s still quite good. Lippman is very good at writing about people who are perpetually bound together in certain ways, often by tragedy. Here in […]

The traditions endure, but the perspective evolves

For Small Creatures Such as We by Sasha Sagan

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CBR15Bingo: You are here You are here on this planet, in this life. How you are moved to celebrate and acknowledge the passing of time and all of the joy and pain that is part of it is up to you. Rituals are, among other things, tools that help us process change. There is so much change in this universe, so many entrances and exits, and ways to mark them…each one astonishing in its own way. ― Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: […]

“Justice may be slow, but she’s also relentless.”

The Change by Kirsten Miller

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Bingo Square: Bodies, Bodies (lots of talk about the female body and menopause, but also dead bodies) Three middle aged women, tired of being ignored and facing hideous sexism, band together to take on a serial killer. Nessa hears the call of dead girls, coming from near the ocean. She was told she had this gift when she was a child, and it would surface when she was much older. Now she can’t rest until she helps these lost souls. Jo’s hot flashes are almost […]



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