I am shallow. I’m not afraid to admit it. I read The Game Plan in 2015, but didn’t review it for CBR7. Mrs. Julien did though, and you can read her review here. I took the title for this review from my comment on her review. Because that’s how I still feel about Ethan “Dex” Dexter. He is hot and I am shallow. Why is he hot? He is tall, heavily muscled, heavily tattooed, bearded, artistic, intense and patient. He pushes Fiona out of her comfort zone, […]
ReReading Harry Potter for Sanity and Resistance Book 1
I, too, am re-reading the Harry Potter series. I discovered the series after the third book had been published, but before book 4. I was house sitting for a work friend and she had left the books on the kitchen table with a note that I might enjoy them. I read all three over 2 days. I remember going to my local Barnes & Noble and being devastated that the 4th book hadn’t been published. I remember reading the last book in the Toronto airport […]
It was the sort of little puzzle he enjoyed
What struck me most as I read A Fatal Grace was the compassion of Inspector Armand Gemache. I have only read two of the Inspector Gemache books, but I suspect that Louise Penny puts great value on people who see. People who see more than the surface. Gemache can see into people, and find compassion for them. Clara sees and creates art. Ruth sees and writes poetry. ‘People expect me to be cynical because of my job,’ Gamache found himself saying, ‘but they don’t understand. It’s […]
Teenage Wasteland
So what would you do if you found out your parents were super villains? Alex, Nico, Karolina, Gertrude, Chase and Molly choose to run away and plot to take down their parents any way they can. I started out with 4 stars, but it’s really closer to 3. I enjoyed Runaways, but it is no Saga. On the night that the 6 teens find out their parents are super villains, they also find out that some of them have powers, one is an alien, one […]
The Bedding is Made From Our Bodies
I listened to Ta-Nehisi Coates read Between The World and Me a couple of times before I felt comfortable writing a review. I have been told, and it makes sense to me, that if I want to be an ally against racism, I need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. I am white. Or has Ta-Nehisi Coates might put it, I think I’m white. I am a beneficiary of white supremacy. If I want to help smash the white supremacist patriarchy (I do, I really do), […]
You can keep my future, it will probably do you more good than me
A few days ago I read J’s review of Memories of Ash, the second book in a new, on-going series of YA fantasy novels. J wants Cannonballers to read it, so I picked up the first book, Sunbolt. After I finished Sunbolt, I saw there was a free short story, The Bone Knife, so I scooped that up too. Sunbolt is a very fast read. I enjoyed it. Khanani keeps the action focused on her protagonist Hitomi and mostly leaves the world building for the reader to glean […]
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