Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


This book ruined my productivity

Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen

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Bingo Row 5 – arts What if Harriet Tubman somehow came back from the past to the modern world? What would she do? Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen says that Harriet Tubman would be the MC in a hip-hop band with some people she led to freedom and a stoned Benjamin Lay. The book is told in the first person by Darnell, Harriet Tubman’s producer. He works with Harriet to put her stories to music. They gossip about Frederick Douglass […]

Delightful, entertaining, and informative

In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

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CBR17Bingo: Migrant (because Australia is a country of migrants–beginning with the Aboriginals and their mysterious journey by ship thousands of years ago, to the first European migrants, to the current migrants [almost half of the population of Sydney was born overseas]). My husband and I began a tradition at our first anniversary of finding a book that relates to something we did during the year, and then we both read it. We haven’t been married very long, but we generally choose books about somewhere we […]

“After 10 centuries of doing this, do you want to know what’s really exciting?” Fern nodded. “Dry socks.”

Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree

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  I really enjoyed this. It’s nice that Travis Baldree is also a voice actor, because he really brings his words to life on the audiobook. I enjoyed the focus on Fern and her accidental road trip. Zil the goblin is a delightfully chaotic entry to the Legends & Lattes universe. Asterix the Oathmaiden keeps everyone grounded while bringing the sword wielding adventure. If you recall, in the Legends & Lattes prequel, Bookshops & Bonedust, Viv made friends with Fern, a bookseller in Murk, where […]

A little luxurious wish fulfillment

The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

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CBR17Bingo: Green (for the green cover) By now I’ve read a number of books by Christina Lauren*, and they’ve been a little hit or miss for me. But it hasn’t stopped me from continuing to read their novels–always hoping for the best. The Paradise Problem (2024) wasn’t my absolute favorite book from them, but it’s up there and I had a good time. When Anna Green was pre-med in college, she was desperate for housing. A friend of hers hooked her up with Liam “West” […]

I feel like disposing of a body is a boyfriend-girlfriend activity and not something you do with a casual hookup.

Lights Out by Navessa Allen

Caught Up by Navessa Allen

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I haven’t had a whole lot of luck with viral booktok books, but several people mentioned enjoying the audiobook of Navessa Allan’s Lights Out. Hooked up with my new library card, I put holds on Lights Out and it’s sequel, Caught Up. The library gods were with me, and I got them both quickly. I’m not a dark romance reader. I’ve read a few that I really liked and noped out of a whole bunch that didn’t do it for me for whatever reason. I […]

The screenwriters writing the rom-com are a rom-com

The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

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CBR17Bingo: Red (for the red in the cover) I can’t remember now how I found The Rom-Commers (2024) by Katherine Center, but I was probably just browsing my library’s catalog looking for an available Audiobook to listen to on my commute. This was an occasionally fun “rom-com” that played on some of the tropes of the genre for its own purposes. However, this wasn’t one of my favorites because the relationship wasn’t very memorable. Emma Wheeler is a talented writer who lives in the Northwest and is […]



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