Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Three and a half Golden Pippins!

At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier

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Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of my favourite historical novels, it’s extremely well researched and although it’s completely fictional, it could very plausibly have happened as told. Remarkable Creatures falls into the same category, I loved it as well, so I was ready to read/listen to another novel by Tracy Chevalier and see what world she would bring to life this time. In At the Edge of the Orchard, the historical background is the colonization of the American West, the Gold Rush, and […]

“What good is passion without trust?”

Murder By Memory (Dorothy Gentleman, #1) by Olivia Waite

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the audio ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. Another cozy mystery series I actually like! I love that they are going more mainstream, and becoming less formulaic and more creative as the genre expands. This one is set in space! Our main character is Dorothy Gentleman, ship’s detective. She is awoken from a two year “sleep” (characters on this ship have their memories stored in books so when they die they can be reawakened in […]

This cute green card plot has very different connotations right now

Roomies by Christina Lauren

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I now feel like I’m wasting time if I’m not listening to an audiobook while I’m in my car, so I’m always on the lookout for a book that will hopefully work well for listening. I’ve read a couple of books by Christina Lauren (two writing-partner friends who smash their first names together to make one author’s name), so when I saw Roomies (2017) available at the library, I figured I would enjoy listening to it. Unfortunately, this one was not my favorite. There were some good […]

Who are you selling your soul to?

Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto

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I enjoyed this so much! First of all if you can, get the audio book. Jolene Kim is an amazing narrator. There were moments when I forgot this wasn’t a full cast production. Second, it’s a heist – a queer as hell sci-fi heist with a Schmelon Schmusk coded bad guy. There’s a dash of second chance, friends to enemies to lovers romance, but mostly it’s about Edie trying to figure out their life when they are surprise paroled from prison. Edie wants to go […]

“…and then I leave the door open, so I’ll be ready when the luck happens.”

Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

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  Up next in the parade of memoirs, mostly of women, we come to Ina Garten’s Be Ready When the Luck Happens.  Off the top, I’m going to say that I knew very little about Garten, pre-reading: I knew she was called the Barefoot Contessa, and that she had a cooking show that occasionally made it into my viewing queue, and that she is a quality meme format (‘store bought is fine’), but that was about all. As it happens? I was missing out. Because Garten […]

“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything.”

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron

I Remember Nothing & Other Reflections by Nora Ephron

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Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss. […]



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