Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Thanks, Obama

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

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CBR Bingo: TBR I’ve owned The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson for at least a few years. I think I bought it because the front cover said, “One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Year” and the premise sounded interesting. Somewhat disappointingly, I ended up DNFing this one at about the 30% mark, but I got enough of an impression of it to want to write a review. In the near future (which might now technically be the past, since I took […]

Delightful, entertaining, and informative

In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

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CBR17Bingo: Migrant (because Australia is a country of migrants–beginning with the Aboriginals and their mysterious journey by ship thousands of years ago, to the first European migrants, to the current migrants [almost half of the population of Sydney was born overseas]). My husband and I began a tradition at our first anniversary of finding a book that relates to something we did during the year, and then we both read it. We haven’t been married very long, but we generally choose books about somewhere we […]

N is for Not

Not Too Sweet by Jessica Seinfeld

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Bingo 9: N is for Not (‘N’ Square) Not Too Sweet is a little bit of a misnomer. Just because the dessert recipes avoid sometimes white sugar does not mean they are low sugar or low sweet. Maple syrup seems to be the general swap, and that’s not exactly low sugar or unprocessed. Dates might be more natural, but those are really sweet. White sugar is still present in some things too. The options for “[something]-free” (gluten, grain mostly) and vegan optional don’t really seem […]

Room Mates

Make Room For Love by Darcy Liao

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Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: Recommendation. This was recommended to me at a romance bookstore when I was looking for sapphic romance tales with trans MCs. We’re in an age where the formerly established fact of multicultural democracy is becoming unsettled. And as such, more stories by gay, queer, trans, enby creatives are going to be going by the wayside. You’ll probably still have “the table” at Barnes & Noble as the bookstore tries to cash in on branding writers by their identity more […]

Light Mystery, Solid Ending

The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer

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Bingo: Borrowed. I borrowed this online book from the library. This light-weight mystery by Georgette Heyer is set in a familiar milieu: a weekend at an English country estate filled with a plethora of guests. There is the heroine, her sister, the sister’s bombastic and wealthy husband who owns the estate, a broke nephew, a man in love with the sister, a down on their luck couple whose flirtatious wife mesmerizes the bombastic husband, a middle aged widow, a vicar and his judgmental wife, and […]

“We overlooked each other’s flaws and treated each other well, even when we didn’t deserve it.”

The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat: A Novel by Edward Kelsey Moore

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Cbr17bingo Family (bingo); the story revolves around three friends who are like sisters to each other and their families I heard about this 2013 novel accidentally. The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat was turned into a movie last year and someone posted a clip on social media that got my attention. I haven’t watched the movie yet, but the novel was a wonderful read. It is the story of three women — Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean — who have been friends since their teenaged years […]



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