Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Now I’m craving scones, tea, and a nap in a cozy railcar

The Mimicking of Known Successes: The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti #1 by Malka Older

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CBR16 Bingo: Earth Day A man vanishes off the platform on the edge of the planet. No one saw him leave but his sudden disappearance is noticed by the small community of people who call this sparsely populated platform home. Mossa, an official investigator, is sent to find out what happened to him. After her initial search turns up nothing but a small lead, she travels to Valdegeld and seeks out Pleiti, a classical Earth researcher and her ex-girlfriend. The story is told from Pleiti’s […]

My head is saying, “Fool, forget him.” My heart is saying, “Don’t let go.”

Sleep: London Love Book 4 by Sophia Soames

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Even though my stomach was churning, I felt in some kind of control, like I could still steer this situation home, dock it gently in a place where I could walk away unscathed. The problem was, I didn’t think I wanted to walk away unscathed. I wanted to hurt and bleed and heal and scream.” ― Sophia Soames, Sleep CBR16 Bingo: Dreams We met Mabel in Taste: London Love book 2. Mark and Mabel work as a team at The Clouds Westminster Hotel in central […]

For a being as sophisticated as you are, it is baffling how little understanding you have of the composition of your own mind

Network Effect by Martha Wells

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CBR16 BINGO: Tech, because Murderbot is a construct of robotic and human parts (Obviously) As my Bingo board can confirm, I’ve been zipping through the Murderbot Diaries this summer and having a good time getting to know SecUnit and its “friends.” Book #5, Network Effect, is the longest entry in the series so far, the first “full-length” novel in a series previously comprising novellas. In Network Effect, Dr. Mensah, SecUnit’s favorite human, sends it on a research mission with a couple of new characters–Mensah’s teenage […]

“I know now that what’s tragic isn’t the moment. It is the memory.”

Another Brooklyn: A Novel by Jacqueline Woodson

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Cbr16bingo Disco, bingo  (1970s New York, marginalized communities) In the author’s notes at the end of this novel, Woodson writes that her inspiration came from her thoughts on “what it means to grow up a girl in this country,” particularly in 1970s Brooklyn. Those familiar with Woodson’s novels — read Brown Girl Dreaming and Red at the Bone, both excellent — know that she has an incredible talent for writing about the experiences of Black girls in specific points in US history such as the […]

We Didn’t Start the Fire; She Did, Actually.

Demon Daughter by Lois McMaster Bujold

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So it turned out I’ve been asleep for a bit, because I hadn’t realized that Lois McMaster Bujold had released some more Penric and Desdemona novellas. So some catching up was in order. And a good thing too, because the next review I had previously planned is a bit of a doozy, and it may take me a little while to complete Demon Daughter is the kind of title that made me think that this particular Penric and Desdemona novella was going to be very […]

Bleeding Innocence Dry

Saving Susy Sweetchild by Barbara Hambly

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CBR16 Bingo: Disco – This mystery’s set amid the bright lights of 1920s Hollywood, featuring both it’s fast-living stars and the people behind the scenes who prop them up. English widow Emma has settled comfortably into her new life in 1920s Hollywood as her silent movie star sister-in-law’s companion and part-time script doctor. When a child star and her mother are kidnapped, she gets swept up in the mystery, if only because she and Kitty may be the only ones who really care if Susy […]



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