Chelsea Cain – Cannonball Read 17

July-August 2024 Leftovers

Heartsick by Chelsea Cain

Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney

Confucius for Christians: What and Ancient Chinese Worldview Can Teach Us about Life in Christ by Greg A. Ten Elshof

Lucky At Cards by Lawrence Block

A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block

Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner

Doing the Devil's Work by Bill Loehfelm

The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Leta McCullough Seletzky

The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter

Burning Angel by James Lee Burke

The Queen City Detective Agency by Snowden Wright

Poetic Justice by Andrea J. Johnson

September 14, 2024 by Jake Leave a Comment

Because I’ve been posting most of my reviews due to Bingo, I haven’t kept up with the leftover ones until now. Hope everyone had a good summer. It’s my least favorite time of year but this one wasn’t so bad. Heartsick***: I took this book too seriously when I tried to read it the first time. I relaxed and enjoyed the ride the second. Goofy fun, nothing more. Brief Answers to the Big Questions****: I do enjoy listening to Hawking’s desire to push the boundaries […]

She’s a Killer Queen

Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain

July 18, 2024 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR16Bingo: Part 2. This is the second in the Gretchen Lowell and Archie Sheridan series, which currently has six books and is apparently counting. I’m trying hard not to be a jerk here. This is me. Look people should write whatever they want. And have fun with it. Writing books is hard. A gender swapped Silence of the Lambs? Hell yeah, baby! Sounds right up my alley, even if I don’t like serial killer books. Ok so this is gonna be a […]

Do you like kickass superheroes?

Mockingbird Volume 1: I Can Explain by Chelsea Cain and Kate Niemczyk

Mockingbird Volume 2: My Feminist Agenda by Chelsea Cain

September 11, 2020 by pixifer 1 Comment

I first read Marvel’s 2016 Mockingbird series in 2017 and immediately fell in love with it. The pandemic has had me down and with the 100 degree days keeping me trapped at home, I needed a pick-me-up. Mockingbird, the smart-ass, smart as hell, feminist superhero, came to my rescue. Mockingbird Volume 1: I Can Explain start with S.H.I.E.L.D agent #19 Barbara “Bobbi” Morse, aka Mockingbird, being called in for a medical check. Bobbi was previously exposed to a combination of Super Soldier Serum and Infinity […]

A book to experience, but you are not always glad you did.

Man-Eaters Volume 1 by Chelsea Cain

May 7, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I was not sure what Man-Eaters Volume 1 was going to be about by the cover. But since it was in the children’s/young adult section I figured it could not be too bad. Okay, maybe a few big cats or dogs or some funny-looking “scary” monster were going to attack people but nothing I hadn’t seen before. Just a thriller story. There was a “funny-looking scary monster” all right. It is called the Female Teenager. Chelsea Cain and various illustrators created a graphic novel series […]

Wait a Minute, Haven’t I Seen This Before?

HeartSick by Chelsea Cain

February 4, 2020 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

All right, the writing was pretty decent, no quibbles there. I just got hung up on the impossible key character. So, real life serial killers, right? Dime a dozen out there, right? And you know how they always turn out to be these gorgeous blonde brilliant psychopaths, who not only kill scores on their own, but even cultivate their minions, much like a troop of Manchurian candidates, who at any time will unleash their own personal killing spree just to glorify her, because she’s just […]

I’m Nuts About Corgis too, Hunter

December 4, 2017 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

I had been itching for a while to get my grubby mitts on Chelsea Cain’s eight issue run of Mockingbird. I had been following along with some stellar reviews here at Cannonball Read, as well as Chelsea Cain’s experiences with this her first venture into comics via the media. She was nominated from a Best New Writer Eisner for this run but Marvel Corp failed to pass along pertinent information to her about how to attend, etc. this summer and all that happened after rabid […]

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