Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A different kind of time travel?

Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

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CBR17 Bingo: “White” – for the white writing on the cover When I finish an audiobook now, I usually go straight to my library catalog to find my next one. I’ve gotten into the habit of searching for audiobooks that are available now–sorting by popularity. I still have to sift through some series and genre books, but it usually points me in the right direction. And that is how I found Wrong Place Wrong Time (2022) by Gillian McAllister. I was hoping this novel would keep my […]

Question of Logistics

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Bingo: “N” **SPOILERS, Don’t proceed if you don’t want to learn the “twist.”         Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go is an odd book. It tells the story of Kathy, the protagonist, and her two friends, Ruth and Tommy, whom she lives with in a residential school called Hailsham. Hailsham is a place for students like them to grow up, be educated, and put their hearts into artwork, poetry, and other activities. These students are not your typical learners, however. They are […]

Things Are Really Beginning to Take Shape

The Gray Wolf Throne by Cinda Williams Chima

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Raisa has managed to make it back to the Fellsmarch, but her troubles aren’t over.  In fact, they seem to have multiplied.  Her mother has died, possibly murdered, and there are those who are trying to put her thirteen year old sister on the throne.  Plus the various factions that do support her have some different ideas of how they should proceed.  Throw in the fact that Han now knows her true identity and feels betrayed by her, Raisa has her hands full keeping herself […]

Spending a little extra time with some characters I love.

Ghosts: The Button House Archives by Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond

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Everyone has their comfort entertainments and one of mine is the television show Ghosts. It started with the BBC version which aired 2019-2023 and I think I’ve watched it at least annually since I discovered it in the early part of COVID lockdowns. Ghosts: The Button House Archives is the kind of series companion book that is fan-service, but in an enjoyable “a fun bit of extra content that deepens some of the jokes and visual gags of the show while sneaking in some additional […]

Silent—and Silenced—Stories

The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri

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cbr17bingo: migrant I knew little about Iran and nothing about refugees prior to reading this memoir, which is an important, and at times distressing, book. Dina Nayeri primarily writes about her family’s flight from Iran, with the book broken into five sections that correspond to elements of this flight: Escape, Camp, Asylum, Assimilation, and Cultural Repatriation. Told from a non-linear perspective and interspersed with stories of other refugees’ lives, Nayeri depicts the arduous, often trauma-filled journey that refugees go on and the long-lasting impact of […]

A Less Than Gentle Nun

The Dawn of Yangchen by F. C. Yee

The Legacy of Yangchen by F. C. Yee

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“Well, that’s too bad,” she said. “Everyone you meet in Bin-Er is in someone else’s pocket. From the moment you appeared, I was trying to figure out whose pocket you were in. Now I finally have the answer.” A fresh slash of a grin spread across her face. “Mine,” Avatar Yangchen declared. “Now you’re in mine.” Been a long week, so once again I’m skipping over the more weighty books in my rotation in order to indulge in the Avatar-verse.  The Kyoshi books were a great way […]



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