Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Read it, like a child, into the night

Melmoth by Sarah Perry

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Helen Franklin is an English ex-pat in Prague on a mission to penalize herself for a mysterious past. However she cannot avoid the friendship of Karel and Thea and for a while she is almost happy. Then Melmoth appears. Melmoth is the an old tale of the wanderer, the one who is there to witness when no one else is and what she sees is the depravity, the loss the despair. Melmoth is just a myth, or so it seems until Karel gets a letter […]

…if It Wasn’t For You Meddling Kids…

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

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  The show Scooby Doo holds a very special place in my heart in all of its iterations because I love it just that much. Fun fact, I saw that there was going to be a Scooby Doo/Supernatural crossover show and having watched no Supernatural at all, I watched 13 straight seasons so I could know what was going on.  The joke was on me, because I didn’t know that there were stand alone episodes and that Scoobynatural was one of them.  It’s fine, I fell […]

I go down into black water. It is dark and silent, but not — never, any more — deserted.

Gnomon by Nick Harkaway

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After a bit of a slow start to the year, my reading took off. I finished seven books in three weeks and started to entertain the possibility of an elusive Double Cannonball. Then two things happened: I found a renewed sense of dedication and spent more of my time actually writing — FINALLY — and I also decided it was time to tackle Nick Harkaway’s monster of a book, Gnomon. Farewell, Double Cannonball. Maybe someday . . . In the not-too-distant future the UK has […]

Not as Good as Christie

And Death Came Too by Richard Hull

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Well. This was a bummer. I was hoping for a smart and interesting murder mystery. I just didn’t like how this was written sadly. We had many characters and Hull doesn’t develop them enough for you to care. The book also ended on a weird note before pushing me to another book that he wrote. I have no interest of that one at all. “And Death Came Too” […]

Ugh, Dad, You’re Embarrassing Me…

The Way We Die Now by Charles Willeford

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And so I have come to the end of Charles Willeford’s Hank Moseley series which, while at times was quite entertaining, mostly disappointed me after its great entry (Miami Blues). As I said in my reviews of the last two books, I expected more cat-and-mouse affairs with Moseley and criminals. I didn’t think this would be a series about a sad sack cop’s private life with some police bureaucracy and a little detective work thrown in. That’s mostly what these books are. And while I’ve […]

Persistence of Time

The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey

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It’s official: I like Josephine Tey. It’s also official: I am not a fan of the classic British mystery novel. Josephine Tey is yet another writer I’ve been meaning to come back to for a long time. I finished The Daughter of Time in one day, two separate sittings. The premise was simple but the execution took my breath away. I gave myself a headache straining to read from page-to-page. The Franchise Affair is a slightly more conventional mystery albeit with an interesting twist: a young girl claims to […]



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