Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I read this for the Read Harder Challenge, but I would have read it anyway.

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

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So I wrote in my initial review of this book: “Something about the climax of this book didn’t work perfectly for me, will try to suss out why later, but the rest of this was lovely. Really glad I read it. You know a book is good when you’re so caught up in it you don’t notice you’re reaching the last pages, and then it’s over and you’re sad.” It’s been a little too long since I finished this now, and I can’t really remember […]

I don’t really know why I disliked this book about time-traveling bodyswaps in Tudor England.

Spark by Catherine Friend

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This book made me very cranky. In fact, I ended up disliking it so much I requested a refund from Amazon, which I guess they don’t normally do if you don’t like a book on Kindle. (They gave it to me, But just this once, because I’m such a loyal customer! Honestly, though, it was a $10 e-book and I did not tolerate it enough to permanently part with $10.) Honestly, I’m not sure how informative this review will end up being if you’re curios […]

My first cozy mystery.

A Quiet Life in the Country (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries, #1) by T E Kinsey

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Yet another book where I really just want a 3.5 star rating. I liked it more than three stars, but I didn’t like it enough for four. This was a fun, cozy little mystery set in England in 1908. It follows Florence “Flo” Armstrong, our narrator, who is a servant of the Lady Emily Hardcastle, but she and her employer have a singular relationship. They are more like friends than employer and employee, due to events that happened in their mysterious past, a past which […]

This made me track down a movie I loved as a kid about a polar bear that was totally based on Cupid and Psyche.

Mythology by Edith Hamilton

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This is one of those books you hear about and then buy in a used bookstore and it languishes on your bookshelves for years until you finally pick it up, and then you just end up thinking to yourself, why didn’t I pick this up sooner? Only, it’s also one of those books that really works better as a reference than as a book you sit down and read from cover to cover. I read this book over the course of most of February, in […]

Also I just watched Girls Trip for the first time and it was pretty great.

The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish

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This was a pretty good listen. There were parts during the first third or so where I was actually laughing out loud, and I don’t do that very much. Mostly it’s just inward laughter or maybe a small noise of some sort to indicate my own amusement to myself. She was cracking me up, though (definitely do the audio if you’re going to do it at all; the swamp tour story alone is worth it). But then a single chapter had to go and ruin […]

A glimpse into the mind of a 12th century religious thinker

Hildegard of Bingen: Mystical Writings by Hildegard of Bingen, Fiona Bowie (Editor), Oliver Davies (Editor)

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Every so often a book about faith sneaks into my reading. There was a time when I was much more involved in organized religion, but it has been a tough fit for me in the past decade or more. I have tended to hold my personal faith a little closer than that shared in a large gathering. The historian side of me is also always looking to learn more about the faith I was raised in and a couple of years ago when the ladies […]



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