I am sad to report that our fellow Cannonball Reader, RachelGraceSanchez, died on December 1st, 2021 after a valiant fight against metastatic breast cancer. I wanted to share a little bit about who she was to me as a friend so that you can join me in remembering one of the greats. Rachel was a great writer and LOVED getting lost in the world of a book. Rachel loved to write reviews and book reccommendations which made the Cannonball such a great outlet for her. […]
Klara and the Sun
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
I want to preface this review with a little slice of my reality as I believe it impacted my reading of this wonderful novel. My beloved Aunt Kitty is, at this very moment, in the last hours of her life as she dies very slowly from metastatic cervical cancer. This remarkable human being that I love like a mother was in my mind and heart as I meandered through the meticulously built world of Klara. What would I do for the person I loved the […]
The Guest List….uh…sure?
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
This was recommended to me as a book I would love and would be unable to put down. It mostly made me annoyed. This book burns slow which is frustrating because a “can’t put down page turner” should definitely move with more haste in story telling. It is also hard to follow what is happening at times because the point of view shifts pretty rapidly and not in a way that suggests the intricacies of the storylines coming together. The book opens on a central […]