Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

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This was so boring that I maybe lost my mind a bit. I think that it was just repetitive to the point that it induced sleep. I started this at the beginning of August and I had to keep setting it aside because it was so freaking slow. I am very annoyed that I even bought this book and should have not gotten excited about a story told about being a teenage slasher. SGJ telling the story of what makes a slasher, and the “rules” […]

Nothing like the TV series, and that’s a good thing

The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton

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Cbr17bingo “B” I loves me some Edith Wharton. Wharton wrote what she knew: late 19th/early 20th century old New York society (think “The Gilded Age”) and its dark underbelly. Wharton grew up amongst the New York elite, and in novels like The Age of Innocence, The Custom of the Country and House of Mirth, she devastates readers with stories of stifling social mores, the struggle of “new money” families to break into elite “old money” circles, and the terrible repercussions for women dependent on men […]

Brainwarp Time

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

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cbr17bingo Rec’d I was gifted and recommended this book by someone who told me there would be surprises and not all was as it would appear to be.  So I started reading it carefully, trying to put together the pieces, but it then started to be clear that I was being misdirected left and right. We start off with four strangers in the Reading Room of the Boston Public Library, sharing a table and peacefully minding their own business, when there is a sudden scream […]

A swing and a miss from Scalzi

When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

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Bingo: Black I’ve been a longtime Scalzi fan since a friend insisted I read Old Man’s War.  However, his last trilogy, The Collapsing Empire, didn’t do it for me.  Then along came The Kaiju Preservation Society, 5 star read, followed by Starter Villain, 5 star read.  Scalzi was on a roll!  After seeing him at an event for Starter Villain, I was so geeked for the final book in this triptych, When the Moon Hits Your Eye.  Scalzi explained this at the event and here is a concise description […]

“Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.”

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

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Cbr17bingo School This short novel is considered Muriel Spark’s best work. Set in a girls’ school in Edinburgh in the 1930s, it tells the story of a group of school girls and their influential, charismatic teacher Miss Jean Brodie. “The Brodie Set,” as the girls and their teacher are known, attract envy and suspicion from both students and staff at Marcia Blaine school as Miss Brodie flouts convention and invites her young students into confidences that are deeply inappropriate. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie […]

If it were me, I’d be hiding in one of the mansion’s many libraries.

The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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Well, my other suggestion involves preemptively whacking the entire Hawthorne family, and I was afraid you’d take that as a euphemism. ― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games CBR17 Bingo: Green Avery Grambs is no stranger to pain. Orphaned after her mother’s death, and abandoned by her father, Avery is left to raise herself. Other than her older, half-sister Libby, the only one looking out for Avery is Avery. When Libby’s abusive boyfriend moves into their apartment, Avery moves out. Sleeping in her car, working […]



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