I read Gun Machine, because my husband gave it a strong recommendation and insisted that I would love it. He has fantastic taste in books, an generally if he says I’ll love something he’s bang on. Gun Machine was absolutely no exception. When a shootout claims the life of Detective John Tallow’s partner, he chases the suspect through a building and accidentally stumbles across an apartment filled with guns, each of which was used in an unsolved murder. No one is very happy about the prospect of opening up […]
More impressive work from Rowling
I am one of the few people who adored The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling’s long awaited and highly criticized follow-up to the series that made her a household name. I found it to be an exceptionally smart, if slow, character study; a story that took forever to capture my attention, but that I wound up deeply invested in. The Cuckoo’s Calling, Rowling’s next attempt (under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith), was similarly paced, but seems to have more broad appeal than The Casual Vacancy. The Cuckoo’s Calling is a fantastic read, starring […]
Landline – Rowell in top form as always
Rainbow Rowell is clearly the sweetheart of the Cannonball Read. Between Fangirl and Eleanor and Park, she’s made rabid fans out of many of us, and we’ve all waited with baited breath for her latest, Landline. Landline is Rowell’s return to stories about adults. After dealing with the tough issues of young adulthood in her previous work, in Landline, Rowell takes on the complicated and challenging topic of marriage and how people somehow change and stay the same all at once. In Landline, Georgie McCool’s marriage is in trouble. Her husband and the father of her […]
In search of a bodice ripper (Reviews 27 – 31)
Well it just got a bit saucy up in here. I was looking for something light and sexy. Something that I can burn through. Preferably with corsets and bodices. And Mrs. Julien provided exactly the list I needed in her post So You Want to Read A Historical Romance provided me with exactly the information I needed to get started. In fact, not only is that list awesome, but her review of these books is far superior to my own, so you can go check that out […]
Discovering Sarah Addison Allen (Reviews 23-26)
Books can be possessive, can’t they? You’re walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its, just to get your attention. – Sarah Allison Allen, The Sugar Queen I heard about Sarah Addison Allen when reading through some old cannonball posts for inspiration, so it should be no surprise to my fellow cannonballers that, after devouring Garden Spells, I went on to read everything that she’s written, with one notable exception: I could not bring myself to read Lost Lake. This […]
The Wondrous Woo
The Wondrous Woo is probably one of my favourite books of the year so far. It tells the story of Miramar Woo, the eldest of three second generation immigrant siblings. She’s quiet, reserved, and smart. Or at least outside her own imagination she is. The book traces her life childhood to young adulthood. As a small child and teenager, Miramar meets the expectations of her parents and doesn’t ruffle any feathers. Just before Miramar graduates from high school, her father dies unexpectedly and in their grief the two […]