Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I warmed to this novel, but it took awhile

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

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CBR 17 BINGO: Family, because family relationships (police officers Jim & Jack; Anna-Lena and Roger; Ro and Julia; the bank robber and the robber’s children) are motivating factors for the characters Back in 2017, I was, like everyone else, charmed by A Man Called Ove, so when I saw another novel by Fredrik Backman in a Little Free Library, I snapped it up. It started strong when, on the first page, I smiled at this paragraph, “This story is about a lot of things, but […]

Sorry-Grateful

How Sondheim Can Change Your Life by Richard Schoch

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CBR 17 BINGO: White (See cover) When Stephen Sondheim died in November 2021, I lost one of my heroes. A theater nerd in college with a proclivity for lyrics over music, I was won over completely by Sondheim’s poetry. Fans can endlessly debate which of his rhymes is most magnificent–the rhyming of “personable” with “coercin’ a bull” in Company is often cited, though I’m inclined to go with the brilliant throw-away line from Into the Woods regarding Jack’s cow, “There’s no time to sit and […]

Experiencing an identity crisis and burnout on your parents’ couch while a hot, single, emotionally-unavailable guy sleeps down the hall

Georgie All Along by Kate Clayborn

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I perform the task of exhausted women everywhere—taking my bra off without removing my top. Once I’ve pulled it through the armhole of my tank, I fling it onto the old, slouchy couch, sending it the disgusted glare that all bras deserve after a long, hot day. ― Kate Clayborn, Georgie, All Along CBR17 Bingo: G This is the book I’ve most recently finished. While I try to follow the order in which I read books, my “to review” list has become so daunting that […]

From Prison Cell to Royal Courts

The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni

The Gilded Cage by Lynette Noni

The Blood Traitor by Lynette Noni

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Bingo Square: Red (mostly The Gilded Cage but all have shades or hints of reds) I kept seeing this on book reels that randomly show up on my FB and IG accounts – it was one of those books that gets talked about but also isn’t so wildly popular that it’s off-putting. Just enough mentions here and there that it eventually stuck in my head. Overall, I think it’s a decent YA trilogy but like so many others, the beginning seems to be setting up […]

I inadvertently overheard some things while my ear was casually pressed to this steel door.

The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games #2) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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“No,” Max corrected. “You and I are friends. Grayson is the physical manifestation of your avoidant attachment style. He won’t let himself want you. You don’t want to want to be wanted. Everybody stays at arm’s length. Nobody gets hurt, and nobody gets any.” ― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy CBR17 Bingo: Play At the end of The Inheritance Games, one mystery was solved…sort of. Why the game was created was answered, but as to why Avery was named the heir remains unknown. The […]

Such Compelling Characters

Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb

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cbr17bingo: favorite (completes my first BINGO) I don’t think Robin Hobb can fully turn me into a wholehearted lover of multiple POV storytelling, but if anyone can, it will be her. I got frustrated each time the POV shifted because I wasn’t ready to be done with the one I was currently reading, and each time I was very quickly sucked into the new one. While I still had favorite and less preferred character POVs, each was still compelling in their own way. Robin Hobb writes […]



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