Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Think about that, you blasted apocalypse, and be aware that when it’s my turn, I’m going to make you know my rights.

A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by K.J. Charles

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I loved A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel. It is a sequel to The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen, set several years later. In Secret Lives, Luke Doomsday is an adolescent, the abused and neglected nephew of Joss, whom Gareth saves. In Nobleman’s Guide, Luke is an adult, educated and working professionally as a secretary. Major Rufus d’Aumesty has unexpectedly (to the rest of the d’Aumesty family) inherited the title of Earl of Oxney. After a year of defending his inheritance from his uncle, Rufus is trying to […]

Gay-Lesbian Solidarity

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

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CBR 15 Bingo – Queer Lives: Both the main characters in this book are queer, and one of the major plot-lines concerns itself with what must change in society for them to live their lives openly. Hundreds of years after the time of Arthur Pendragon, his descendent Arthur Delacey is betrothed to Gwen, the princess of England. If only she wasn’t more interested in the only female knight in the realm; if only he wasn’t more interested in her brother… I picked up this book because […]

Sometimes he felt like he was in a particularly brutal version of Groundhog Day, stuck in a wheel that would never stop spinning.

Twisted Secrets by Katee Robert

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Forever Publishing is rebranding Katee Robert’s The O’Malleys series. The O’Malleys are a Boston mafia family. In addition to new covers and new titles, Robert has reworked some things that she felt didn’t hold up. I always appreciate her, “when you know better, you do better” attitude. I am not sure what has changed in the text, because I hadn’t gotten around to reading the series before now. Twisted Secrets is the third in a six book series. I appreciate it more as a part […]

We not only have faces and names; some of us have extensive bibliographies.

Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba

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I became aware of Myriam Gurba on Twitter when she tweeted about her review of a forthcoming bestseller, American Dirt, being killed because it was too mean. My first thought, being intimately familiar with the liberties white women take with other people’s stuff, was that she was, at a minimum, as mean as she needed to be. (I am a white woman, born and raised in Texas, so when I say I am intimately familiar, I mean it is my heritage.) There is an essay […]

Roll Call of the Anonymous Dead

Lay Them to Rest by Laurah Norton

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CBR 15 Bingo – On the Road: Laurah and Amy spend much of the book on various road trips around the United States chasing down leads on the identity of “Ina” Jane Doe. True crime podcast host Laurah and forensic anthropologist Dr. Amy work to uncover the identity of the Ina County Jane Doe, who has been unidentified since her partial remains were found in 1993. Though I enjoy the true crime genre, I generally avoid stories which don’t have conclusive endings – I’ve always found […]

To boldly go where no (wo)man has gone before!

The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush

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CBR 15 Bingo – Strange Worlds: The titular six (and I) jet off to the strange worlds of NASA and outer space in this book. It was many years after the inception of NASA and the space flight program that women were allowed to become astronauts. Though not all of these initial six women are household names today, they all worked to advance both space exploration and women’s rights in their own ways. It rather surprises me that I’m not very interested in space exploration – […]



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