Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Slow Start to a Series but a Compelling One

The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima

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Han Alister is a former street thief and gang leader trying to go straight.  Raisa is the Princess Heir struggling to find her path and navigate the court.  While the two seem to have very little in common, both are caught up in schemes that pose a threat to the Queendom.  As each of them tries to figure out what is going on, their paths intersect, and the stakes might be higher than either of them knows. This book has a slow start, but the […]

Old Fashioned Folk Tale Vibes

Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George

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The youngest girl in a family of nine children, she doesn’t even have a name and is called either Pika by most of the family or Lass by her favorite brother.  However, when her brother’s actions lead to an Isbjørn to come to their home, she agrees to go away with him and spend a year and a day.  But life in the ice palace is strange and the cost of unraveling the mysteries she finds might be high. East of the Sun, West of […]

Goodnight Kiss by R.L. Stine

Goodnight Kiss by R.L. Stine

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Heh. I needed to find something that began with the letter “G” for a bingo book game I am playing. And honestly. I thought this took place in school (it’s been decades since I read this one!) and then realized well at least it fits the “G” part since the whole book took place over the summer holiday. Do you all remember the “Fear Street Super Chiller” books? It was similar to the “The Baby-sitter Club’s Super Specials”? All I can tell you is that […]

Lost Souls Meet Under A Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura, Yuki Tejima (Translator)

Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. I absolutely loved this collection of stories told under the umbrella of a mysterious person called “the Go-Between”. A person that is able to set up meetings with the living and the dead, preferable during the full moon. Each story follows four people who reach out to this person and then the last portion of this book has us finding out who the “Go-Between” is and how they […]

A reminder of the importance of a good editor

Greatest Short Stories by Women - Grapevine Collectible by Virginia Woolf et. al

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Cbr17bingo purple Virginia Woolf, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen — these are just a few of the 17 women writers whose works are featured in this collection. While I enjoyed most of the stories, the publisher/editors made some very strange and aggravating choices that left me bewildered.  No editors are listed, and no forward or afterward is offered to explain what criteria were used to determine which writers and stories were included. The 17 stories range in original publication dates from 1832 to 1926, […]

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly

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CBR17 Bingo: Rec’d – I picked up this book after a recommendation by the true crime podcast Last Podcast on the Left, which used this book as a source for its series on the Black Death. The impact of the Black Death upon medieval Europe was astounding in its scale, but the effects it had on an individual level can get buried under the sheer number of the dead. In this book, author Kelly skillfully excavates them. The Black Death is one of those things […]



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