Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Once Upon a Time in Holy Wood

Eric by Terry Pratchett

Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett

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  CBR Bingo: Red (Eric) CBR Bingo: Arts (Moving Pictures) I’m continuing my (almost) in-order read of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series with the ninth and tenth books, Eric and Moving Pictures. Eric is the fourth book in the subseries focusing on the Wizards of Unseen University (it’s got some slight references to the events of Sourcery, but it can likely be read without having read that one previously). Moving Pictures is technically a standalone but does feature quite a few reoccurring characters (with Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, an […]

“You make family where you can, and you make the best of a bad hand every time. That’s all you can do.”

By the Horns by Ruby Dixon

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CBR17 Bingo: B – Behold, the title. Gwenna is determined to join the Royal Artificer’s Guild, where she’ll be able to leave behind her past life as a maid – but between her budding necromantic powers and her growing attraction to Raptor, who suspects she may be a thief, her dream might be slipping out of reach. I utterly loved this book, which improves on the good points of the first book in the series (world-building, humor, and complex main and supporting characters) while improving […]

“The chief wrong which false prophets do to their following is not financial… but the real harm is on the mental and spiritual plane.”

Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age by Leah Sottile

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CBR17 Bingo: Borrow – Support your local library! Like many of my reads, I borrowed this book from my local public library. The story of cult leader Amy Carlson and Love Has Won burst onto the news due to the unusual circumstances surrounding her dead, but she and her group are just the latest incarnation of New Age new religious movements in the United States. I have a bit of a fascination with new religious movements (which are not always cults, though all cults are […]

Realistic shades of friendship

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

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CBR17 Bingo: “Culture” – this book is very much rooted in the culture of a small town near Naples, Italy. I had never heard of My Brilliant Friend (2016) until I saw the NYT’s “100 Best Books of the 21st Century.” I had read a good number of books from that list, but I was a little disappointed that I had missed number one. If nothing else, I am a sucker for a list, so it didn’t take me long before I got around to remedying my […]

Bingo Blackout + Cannonball!

This Will Be Fun: A Novel by E.B. Asher

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Cbr17bingo review — by Finnyfinfinn E.B. Asher is the pen name for the three authors who wrote This Will Be Fun together: Bridget Morrissey, Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka. They are all romance authors, and while there are a couple of lovely romances in this story, it is also an adventure full of bickering and swashbuckling. It’s funny and highly entertaining while dealing with some more serious issues like grief, betrayal and survivor’s guilt. Thanks to Finnyfinfinn for the previous review. In the mythical Queendom […]

A Mediocre Procedural

Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell

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Bingo: Border. Story deals with the borders between good and evil, life and death, rage and reason. Patricia Cornwell’s Postmortem is the first in her Kay Scarpetta series. Scarpetta is chief medical examiner and she is plunged into a case where four women have been assaulted and strangled. The book is a standard procedural about a serial killer with relatively poor characterization. Scarpetta is not a compelling protagonist; she is somewhat stiff and colorless. Her colleagues in law enforcement are typical types—sexist gruff police officer, […]



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