Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Of course cats are sentient and working with villains

Starter Villain by John Scalzi

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CBR15 Bingo: Adulthood – Charlie struggles with many of the downsides to adulthood, loans, parental loss, divorce, and barely scrapping by.  Bingo #3! History (replaced with Nostalgia) to Europe. John Scalzi is almost an auto buy for  our household.  However, the most recently trilogy had us feeling a little cold.  Then last year’s The Kaiju Preservation Society was a spectacular showcase of what makes Scalzi such a fun writer.  Based on The Kaiju Preservation Society I was already looking forward to my preorder of Scalzi’s newest […]

A fairytale in all but name

Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher

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CBR15 Bingo: Using my Getaway key to replace History with Nostalgia and make bingo #2! Diagonal, History to Sex.  I used Nettle and Bone for nostalgia because fairytales always make me feel nostalgic for my childhood reading.  Note: It has been awhile since I listened to this book and I have forgotten names.  Also, I don’t know how names are spelled so please forgive any transgressions. It feels like a few weeks ago (but the reality is it was probably several months ago because time is […]

None for me, thanks

The Invisible Hour: A Novel by Alice Hoffman

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When I picked up this novel, I did not know who Alice Hoffman was. I have since learned that she has written many novels which often involve the use of magic and the supernatural. I suppose if I had known that going in, the twists in The Invisible Hour would have been less startling to me but I’m not sure it would have changed my feeling about this novel, which is pretty “meh.” The Invisible Hour starts with a very interesting premise that drew me […]

All the world’s a stage

The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn

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The Whalebone Theatre is a coming of age novel set in the decades before and during WWII. The main focus is on the three Seagrave half siblings, especially the eldest Cristabel Seagrave. More than a “growing up and learning” kind of story though, The Whalebone Theatre is about misfits and about the saving grace of art. Cristabel Seagrave was born to lead but finds herself often frustrated. The Seagraves are a propertied family with a seaside estate called Chilcombe, but of course, women don’t take […]

Double Cannonballing with an unexpected book.

The Sweet Spot by Amy Poeppel

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 3 Book 1/30 I was genuinely surprised by how much I liked this. I very rarely really connect to contemporary fiction anymore that doesn’t have some sort of genre twist or queer angle. But this was just so charming! I would advise not reading the blurb, because it spoils something that doesn’t happen until over 60% of the way through the book. The Sweet Spot follows several women in Manhattan whose lives are either falling apart or finally coming together. […]

Absolutely not.

Cat Lady by Dawn O'Porter

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DNF @ 42% I can’t believe I’m actually doing this, and for this book, but I just can’t do it anymore. The cover says it was a bestseller, but I’m having a hard time believing that. Maybe they did what I did, and bought it off vibes alone and then never finished it or hated it. It’s just so unpleasant to read, and bad weird things are going on. The part where the book officially lost me, I think, was when the main character’s inner […]



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