Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“In my place will grow a feral rose, soft red petals hiding sharp white teeth”

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab

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Bingo Square: B – Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil V.E. Schwab has created another enjoyable stand alone novel with Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil.  It’s about hunger, love, and rage.  Starting in 1532 Spain and concluding in 2019 Boston, Massachusetts.  Three women, across time become inextricably linked and, in Schwab’s words, this is their “toxic, lesbian vampire story”. Bury my bones in the midnight soil,   plant them shallow and water them deep,   and in my place will grow a feral rose,   soft red […]

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

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How I have missed you, let me count the ways…. Seriously though, I got told to read “Fugitive Telemetry” first and then circle back to The Murderbot Diaries, #5 and then #7. FYI, Wells has a new book or a novella coming out in 2026 called “Platform Decay.” We have Murderbot still protecting humans. This is set before “Network Effect”. Murderbot is stationed at Preservation Station and then discovers a dead body. Murderbot knows what to do in this situation, but also they know that […]

One of my favorite fantasies

The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri

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The Oleander Sword fulfills the “green” square on CBR17 Bingo. I read and reviewed this book for the first time back in 2022 and it still has me absolutely devastated and sitting here filled with feelings. Luckily this time around I have The Lotus Empire at hand and don’t have to wait to find out what happens next for Priya and Malini! The Oleander Sword takes place a year after The Jasmine Throne and is a story full of the ripple effects of war and […]

Culture has many forms

The Runaway Pancake by Tiny Fisscher

Sleep Here, Wake There by Caio Zero

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cbr17bingo Culture (Runaway Pancake) and Work (Sleep Here, Wake There) When you are a reader of the children’s genre you find all types of books. One of my favorites are picture books as they are fun, unique and quick reads. Still, they can have deep messages and/or be quirky and fun.  The Runaway Pancake by Tiny Fisscher and illustrated by Sophie Pluim (currently available but read via an online reader copy) (CULTURE) is a fun and quirky one with a  fun take on the Gingerbread […]

Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?

Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee

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CBR Bingo: Review When deciding what book to read next, I often read reviews of the book to see what I’m getting myself into. What’s somewhat interesting about this one is that it was actually a negative review that convinced me to read it. One particular reviewer didn’t like the book because it contained “so much climate activism”, “brief meat shaming”, “transgender characters”, and “reverse racism”, which was only successful in making me want to read it. Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee is an Arthurian […]

Adopt from the Shelter for Slightly Magical Pets. It’s magically mischievous

Hocus and Pocus and the Spell for Home by A.R. Capetta

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cbr17bingo  Purple (cover) Recently I said in another review you can judge a book by its cover. Sometimes there is something about it that lets you know it is going to go in X direction (or XXX as a recent coloring book with an Alice from Wonderland in a dress so short you can tell if she was a natural blond or not). Thankfully the cover of Hocus and Pocus and the Spell for Home by A.R. Capetta and illustrator Charlene Chua tells a radically […]



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