Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Could I have an assistant to manage dating for me, too?

The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms

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I picked this one up based on badkittyuno’s review.  All of those novels she mentioned (I downloaded two of them because they are also on Kindle Unlimited) sounded like the comfort food version of reading.  Sweet, hopeful, happy endings, not too challenging, and a pleasant way to spend an afternoon if ultimately forgettable. Three years ago, Amy Byler’s husband did not come home from a business trip to Hong Kong.  It would be one thing if he had left, but he also neglected to continue […]

A Middling Murder Mystery (BINGO #9!)

Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (author), Bernard Scudder (translator)

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Last Rituals is the first in series focusing on Thóra Guðmundsdóttir, Icelandic lawyer and divorced mother of two. We are introduced to Thóra following the discovery of the body of a young German student Harald Guntlieb at a university in Reykjavík, his eyes cut out and strange symbols carved into his chest. Police wasted no time in making an arrest, but the victim’s family isn’t convinced that they have the right person. They ask Thóra to investigate on the recommendation of her old professor and […]

It’s impressive I still want to travel here…

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Bingo Square for Dream Vacation. I’d love to go to Ireland, and funnily enough I bought this to read on my international trip where I met up with friends in Spain … after their first leg of the trip concluded in Dublin.  (Boring reasons I couldn’t go this time, but hoping to get another chance). Anyway, this is the fifth book I’ve read of French’s Dublin murder squad series, and given that theyre all about homicide, it’s pretty impressive that I still want to go, […]

The Ballad of the Reluctant Hero

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I have always loved ancient myths, I read every book of myths from every single part of the world I could get my hands on as a kid. Being that I grew up in the Western World this mostly meant Greek Myths. While I could find a couple Chinese, and Korean, and Indian myth books in my local libraries, and there were several on Norse and Celtic mythology as well, all of these were far outnumbered by the books of Greek and Roman myths and […]

One of these days, I’m definitely going to have to learn how to spell Marisha Pessl without looking.

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Its become very clear that Marisha Pessl is now a MUST author for me. I loved her debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics. And while I didn’t have the same immediate feelings for Night Film, that book crept up on me and ended up scaring me more than I thought possible. With Neverworld Wake, Pessl presents her first YA offering, and it offers a combination of the private school privileged world seen in Calamity Physics and a nightmarish view of human nature, similar to […]

Find your inner superheroine

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SPOILER WARNING! As I’m reviewing all three books in a trilogy, it’s going to be difficult for me to discuss the books without minor spoilers, especially in books 2 and 3, as they naturally follow on from and develop stuff that’s gone before in the series. So if you want to approach this series entirely spoiler free – you may just want to read the synopsis for book 1. #CBR10Bingo: Heroine Complex: So it begins Heroine Complex – 4.5 stars Evie Tanaka is the long-suffering and ever patient personal assistant […]



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