Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

What are the readers on Goodreads smoking?

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

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CBR12 BINGO: Fresh Start BINGO: Red, Gateway, Fresh Start, Cannonballer Says, Money Storm Front reads like a novel created buy a guy who played a lot of Dungeons & Dragons as a teen and always dreamed about writing his own fantasy series. And if that’s true, more power to Jim Butcher for fulfilling his dream. I respect the effort and the ambition. Sadly, that doesn’t change the fact that the result is just not good. The premise of this series is appealing enough. Harry Dresden […]

Harry Dresden and the Dark Hallow: Yes, there are wizards, but this ain’t Hogwarts

Dead Beat by Jim Butcher

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I’m still slowly making my way through these Harry Dresden books, all read to me by the fantastic James Marsters. And, as many cannonballers before me have stated, I’m enjoying each book slightly more than the one that came before it. I’m now fully invested into Harry’s world, and I can’t wait to start the next one. In this one, Harry and Butters (the polka enthusiast-medical examiner), are on the run from a group of necromancers who have descended upon Chicago, all looking for something […]

Episode 1-24: Two People Can Keep a Secret if One of Them is Dead

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https://killingmykindle.com/2018/06/27/episode-1-24-two-people-can-keep-a-secret-if-one-of-them-is-dead/ Wherein I review: 91. The Stranger by Harlan Coben 92. Brief Cases by Jim Butcher 93. Ghostman (Jack White #1) by Roger Hobbs What would you do to keep a secret?  Harlan Coben suggests you would embark on a decades long coverup that involves the murder of your childhood friends.  Roger Hobbs believes in going full ghost on the heisting.  And Jim Butcher…returns from the grave!!!!

She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes in shape no bigger than an agate stone on the forefinger of an alderman…or at least that’s what Simon LeBon told me.

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My interest in Shakespeare came from watching a Duran Duran video when I was in the 8th grade. The song was Waiting for the Nightboat, and watching it led me to reading Romeo & Juliet for the first time. Who was this Queen Mab? And why was Simon LeBon so afraid of her? Junior High me needed to know. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ09HcvYQTY&w=560&h=315] All of this came back to me while listening to my Audible boyfriend James Marsters read Summer Knight to me last week. In the fourth installment […]

These audiobooks are great. But they’re also terrible. Hells bells, I don’t know what I think.

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I’ve now read the first three installments in the Harry Dresden series. Or, to be more specific, I’ve now listened to James Marsters read me the first three installments in the Harry Dresden series. And I still don’t really know what I think. Let me explain. I have no idea what is going on in these books. Yes, I understand that Harry is a wizard who lives in Chicago. I get that he works indirectly with the police and with other, less reputable members of […]

Harry Dresden Hits it out of the Park Again

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  Nothing better than a Harry Dresden novel narrated by Jim Marsters. Well,  there are better things, but as audio books go, this is the top end. Love that man’s voice. And Dresden Files stories – well  – Jim Butcher just keeps hitting them out of the park. Ok so first things first : if you have never read a Harry Dresden book before, well this is probably not where you want to start. There are like…15 of them. Seriously …go get Storm Front. That’s the […]



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