Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Dead gods, decapitated corpses and dastardly ex-husbands

Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher

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CBR17 Bingo: Purple (most of the cover, barring the cover image, is a lovely lavender purple) Stephen is one of the paladins of the Saint of Steel (who was a god, despite the name), who died very suddenly and unexpectedly a few years back. No one thought gods could die, and a lot of his paladins killed themselves and caused massive amounts of damage when it happened. Now, Stephen and the six other paladins who remain are housed at the Temple of the White Rat […]

A Whole New World – At Least to Me

A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn

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cbr17bingo TBR This was fascinating, a murder mystery set in a time and place that was unfamiliar to me.  In the early 1950s, South Africa had just entered into its apartheid era.  What had been previously informal, now became rigidly structured by law.  The population was strictly divided between the whites (original Dutch settlers and the mostly English settlers that followed – two distinct groups), the native Africans, and the colored population (for the most part settlers from India and anyone who was of a […]

Major Tom? Can You Hear Me?

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

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cbr17 bingo Migrant   Like the title says, an archive, a family one, loaded into boxes and carried across country from New York to Arizona.  The family is a hybrid one – the husband with his son and the wife with her daughter, yet the two children are a team.  Good thing they have each other to rely on.  The parents met as part of a project to document the soundscape of New York City, but when the wife meets the mother of a classmate […]

Mooses? Meese? Why No Plural?

Massacre Pond by Paul Doiron

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cbr17bingo Favorite Well, there is a massacre of sorts involved here, but Massacre Pond is identified as being somewhere else than this locale, and isn’t really involved with this story.  Makes you wonder who chooses a title, and I suspect in this case, it wasn’t Doiron. Anyhoo, the massacre victims consist of ten moose.  All shot point blank on a game refuge, and clearly not for the meat.  Someone (make that two someones) are clearly trying to send a message.  There is a season for […]

Never mind Ms O’Leary’s Cow

The Fifth Floor by Micheal Harvey

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cbrbingo   cbrbingo17 red cbrbingo17 Red Michael Kelly, ex-cop and private investigator, is looking for a little information, and sources don’t get better than Fred Jacobs of the tribune.  Let’s meet Fred. Fred was six feet two and weighed slightly less than your average house cat.  He was chasing sixty with . . . a head of black hair the color and consistency of shoe leather. . . .  Fred was a life-long bachelor.  Suffice it to say, he didn’t get a lot of chicks.  […]

“So much of her life had been about escaping, in dreams and books and out of windows, that she didn’t quite know how to stay.”

The Geographer's Map to Romance by India Holton

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Buzzword Cover Challenge 25: Monochrome CBR17 Bingo: Green (A book with a green cover) Official plot summary, because I finished the book in early April, and perimenopause is doing my powers of recall no favours: Professor Elodie Tarrant is an expert in magic disasters. Nothing fazes her—except her own personal disaster, that Professor Gabriel Tarrant, the grumpy, unfriendly man she married for convenience a year ago, whom she secretly loves. Gabriel is also an expert in magic disasters. And nothing fazes him either—except the walking, […]



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