Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

And a road trip to finish the Bingo Board!

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart

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CBR11Bingo – Travel! Coyote Sunrise and her father Rodeo live an unconventional lifestyle. Tried and true hippies, they drive round the country as the wind takes them on a repurposed school bus which acts as both home and transport. Sometimes they drive toward their favorite sandwich shop in the Bayou, or maybe they’re assisting a fellow traveler they found stranded. It’s been this way for five years – because five years ago, Coyote’s mother and sisters were killed in a car accident. And leaving home […]

I’m going up the country, baby don’t you want to go?

Roadtripping: On the Move with the Buffalo Gals by Conni Massing

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I find I like the idea of literary travel books more than I usually like the books themselves.  Travel books have a tendency to veer into stories of someone else’s vacation- fascinating and possibly life changing for the traveler, less so for the listener/ reader.  In addition, travelogues can lack the themes or narratives that pull a fictional novel along and, likewise, can be short on the cohesive conclusions that a good non-fiction book draws. Given that they’re not my favourite genre, why did I […]

There isn’t really peace when you are done

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

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4.5 stars Spoiler warning! This is the second book in a series, and this review will contain spoilers for the first book, Carry On. If you haven’t already read it, you should do yourself a favour and do so. Simon Snow was the Chosen One, destined to bring an end to the threat to all magic. Of course, it turned out that he himself was in fact the thing that was threatening the magic in the first place, and his mentor/father figure (and actual biological father, although none […]

Road Trip!

November Road by Lou Berney

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I’ve just about had my fill of fiction books devoted to the Kennedy assassination. Yet since I needed to read a novel involving a family road trip for my local library’s bingo, I took this on. Lou Berney is one of those writers I should like more than I do. He writes fun, detailed crime novels that are well-paced and hold my attention. But I couldn’t even get through half of The Long and Faraway Gone. I was curious as to why. Reading the slimmer November Road provided me […]

I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike… (Bingo)

Ride with Me by Ruthie Knox

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#CBR11 Bingo: Travel Tom is a brooding loner with a past, who gave up the corporate life and now works as a bike mechanic. He’s estranged from most of his family, with the exception of his sister. Determined to cycle the Trans-America trail, from Oregon to Virginia, he’s annoyed when he discovers said sister has been e-mailing someone (as him) to arrange for a riding partner. When he finds out that the “Alex” his sister has been e-mailing is, in fact, a Lexie, he is […]

“Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something.”

A Heart in a Body in the World by Caletti, Deb

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After an unnerving encounter in a local fast-food chain, Annabelle runs. She runs and decides she can’t stop anytime soon. She isn’t prepared for a cross-country run, but she can’t bear to turn back to her hometown and school where she is haunted by flashbacks of The Taker, and what he took. Her mother is appalled, with graduation coming and concern that Annabelle isn’t thinking rationally. But her little brother, her friends, and her grandfather seem to understand that running to Washington DC is something […]



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