Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

More Like the Book of Old Cases, Right?

The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

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Le sigh. I hate tearing into the work of a writer I normally enjoy. I’m going to do a non-spoiler one and include a spoiler below. While the spoiler does indeed reveal a major plot point (though not an essential one to the mystery of the murders), I do encourage you to read it as it deals with a trope that is common and very painful for a large group of people. It’s one I see repeated time-and-time again and I’m just tired of it. […]

Fae trouble for Mercy Thompson

Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs

River Marked by Patricia Briggs

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After reviewing Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series last year, I  have come back for more with CBR13. I can’t seem to get enough! Mercy is a coyote shifter who lives in Washington working as a mechanic. She was raised by werewolves and attempted to strike out on her own. She keeps to herself mostly until she ends up tangled in werewolf business. Her neighbor happens to be the local were pack Alpha, Adam. With the first four books in the series, Mercy gets into trouble […]

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Derailed by Mary Keliikoa

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Read as part of CBR13Bingo: New Series. The Kelly Pruett series debuted in 2020. Book two came out this year.  In the “About the Author” section, the reader learns that Mary Keliikoa didn’t get the chance to publish this book until she was 50, despite trying to begin a writing career in her 20s. Things like family and work (she is, or was a lawyer) kept getting in the way. I appreciate that story a lot. And perhaps it made me appreciate her debut effort […]

Out of Print, but should not be forgotten

Refresh, Refresh by Danica Novgorodoff

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Refresh, Refresh has come up on my radar several times. I was not interested as it looked like either a bloody fantasy with no point or another war book. A graphic novel would be an interesting take on either theme, but was I in the mood for it? In a recent grabbing of graphic novel covers catching my eye, I said, “Worse case I do not like and do not finish.” I had a feeling (though not sure why) it was about Vietnam. And it is […]

The uncanny valley of my life.

Stray City by Chelsey Johnson

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Have you ever had a thing that’s so much yours that you’re prickly about it? A hobby that you’re into so much more than just casually that you can’t listen to other people discuss it casually? Something you feel protective of, defensive about, proprietary toward? That you can’t discuss with (almost) anyone else because they will not be on the same level as you and that’ll make you feel weird? And you feel almost angry if you hear someone else talking about like it’s theirs […]

Gus the Fisherman

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The River Why, by David James Duncan, is one of those books that I love to re-read.  I’ve read it probably ten times over the last 20 years, and it always makes me happy.  Sure, I basically know the story by heart, but it does my heart good to re-read it. So, what’s it about? Well, it’s about a lot of things.  And if you asked me the last time I read it what it was about, I’d probably say something different than I’m going […]



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