Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

We’re Wolves

Mate by Ali Hazelwood

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CBR Bingo: ‘Black’ The last few Ali Hazelwood books I’ve read have been sort of hit-or-miss for me. I enjoyed Not in Love, was conflicted about Problematic Summer Romance, and hated Check & Mate (it wasn’t a bad book perse, I just don’t think I was the intended audience). I do however really enjoy her writing style, and I’ve been cautiously optimistic about Mate, recently released and the follow-up to last year’s Bride (which was actually the first book of hers that I read). The narrator […]

Any mom who misses a chance to dress her kid up like a hotdog sounds like a psychopath to me.

Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid

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He’s looking to validate himself through someone else. She hasn’t caught on because she doesn’t know who she is. ― Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age CBR17 Bingo: TBR For the past week, I’ve tried to think of an appropriate metaphor for what this reading experience was like for me. In terms of amusement park metaphors, it was like a rollercoaster with the slow climb to the top, each click of the chain ramping up the tension until you’re yanked up and over, all of […]

Need a little more plot in my fiction

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

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CBR17Bingo: “Family” – because the main story is the story of a small family. I had not heard of Dept. of Speculation, (2014) and I’d never read anything by Jenny Offill, the book’s author. But my husband was reading Dept. of Speculation, and he recommended it to me. I forget exactly what he told me, but it was something about it being very readable and a page turner. This piqued my interest, and I almost immediately checked it out. It turns out that my husband and I […]

A Potpourri of Gene-Editing Perspectives

The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans by Eben Kirksey

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Earlier this summer, I started reading and reviewing a number of books related to gene technology with a specific focus on CRISPR. This was not just for my own enjoyment; I’m teaching a class on Gene Technology this winter so I thought I better brush up on everything. And since I’ve been asked to attract as many non-majors as possible, I’ve decided not to focus on just the technical aspects, but also the social and legal aspects as well. This brings us to the next […]

Meat(ball) Cute

Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver

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CBR Bingo: ‘Purple’ I loved Brynne Weaver’s Ruinous Love trilogy (consisting of Butcher & Blackbird, Leather & Lark, and Scythe & Sparrow) about serial killers falling in love, so I had been eagerly awaiting her latest novel, Tourist Season, ever since it was announced. Released last month, this is the first in a planned trilogy, set in the same universe as the Ruinous Love series, but with (mostly) new characters. The main characters are Harper, a resident of the seaside tourist town of Cape Carnage, and […]

Insubstantial Fluff

A Fellowship of Librarians & Dragons by J. Penner

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Bingo 21: Review I may have already had A Fellowship of Librarians and Dragons on my TBR before looking up reviews, but turns out I had a pretty similar reaction to Bjornsnipe: https://everyday-offershub.com/2025/10/a-fellowship-of-librarians-dragons-adenashire-book-two-bjornsnipe/ This series, not totally surprisingly, appears to be let’s take a core group, and then pair everyone off, one novel at a time. There’s not a lot of substance, and no attention to realism. This is pure wish fulfillment, where everything turns out  fine in the end, romantically, family-wise, dragon baby-wise, friend-wise, […]



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