Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“The hearts of men are alike wherever you go. The rest is scenery.”

Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

by Leave a Comment

In the midst of the Peloponnesian War, more than 7000 Athenian prisoners of war are left to rot in Syracuse’s quarries – except a select few whom unemployed Syracusan potters Lampo and Gelon decide will be perfect to mount a pair of plays by the great tragic playwright Euripides. You might have to reread that premise. It’s a pretty whacky one, though some mild trawling of Wikipedia later revealed to me that allegedly some Athenian prisoners in Sicily did buy their freedom by reciting Euripides […]

For Everything There is a Season

Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings

by Leave a Comment

Hounded by fairweather friends after winning the lottery, Opal impulsively buys a flower farm amid cottagecore visions of opening her own studio. But there is already someone living at the Thistle and Bloom – thorny farmer Pepper, who has no clue that her home has been sold out from under her, and is certainly not happy to learn about it. Firstly, take a good look at that cover. It is so pretty that I returned to it multiple times over the course of reading this […]

We finally get Alice and Blackwood’s story

My Inconvenient Duke by Loretta Chase

by Leave a Comment

Nowhere Book Bingo 25: A book that takes place entirely outside the US Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC. My views are my own. Spoiler warning! Because some of the issues I have with this book can’t really be addressed without me spoiling some parts of the plot, skip the parts of the review on my website that I’ve marked with spoiler tags until you’ve actually finished the book. While this is the third book in the series, most of the action takes place […]

Oh What Tangled Webs We Weave

It Started With a Secret by Tif Marcelo

by Leave a Comment

When Jared goes to the town of Peak in search of answers about his father’s family, the last thing he expects is to spend a night with Matilda, the prickly manager of their B&B. There is a lot of story packed into this fairly short book – Reconnecting with your roots! Family drama! Age gap! Forbidden workplace romance! – but author Marcelo does a decent job of giving all of it plenty of page time, even if it means some of them are a bit […]

The World Gone Mad

Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor by Steve Kemper

by 2 Comments

The attack on Pearl Harbor was shocking and unexpected to the American public and government, but for Joseph C Grew, the American ambassador to Japan, it was the only logical outcome to a decade’s worth of missed opportunities for peace. For all the many times we rehashed World War Two in school, I never learned much about what led Japan to side with the Axis, and why they seemingly so suddenly launched into war with the United States – Pearl Harbor always arrived as a […]

A Somewhat Predictable Novel with a Strong Heart

The Bones Beneath My Skin by T. J. Klune

by Leave a Comment

I think Artemis Darth Vader might be one of my favorite characters. She’s one of the 3 main characters in this book, and she’s so much fun. Our trio is rounded out with Nate and Alex. After being fired from his job, and while still dealing with a complex emotional reaction to his parents’ deaths, Nate heads to the cabin in Oregon that his parents left him. He is surprised to find it occupied by Alex and Artemis (Art), who are on the run and […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo