Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Romance That Needs More Magic

The Sumage Solution by G. L. Carriger

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I am not sure how or why I ended up with The Sumage Solution; I do like Gail Carriger (or G.L. Carriger as she is here), but straight up romance is really really not my genre. The world of the story is probably my favorite part; it’s modern day San Francisco, but it’s mostly supernatural beings. Our main love connection is a mage and a werewolf, but some of the other couples involve werewolf-merman, a pair of kitsune, and a kelpie and her partner (species […]

Who is really lost here?

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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And the saga of my conflicted feelings for audiobooks continues. With a highpoint, admittedly, but conflicted those feelings still are. I spend a lot of time in front of screens for work, reading documents etc., my eyesight has suffered this year and since I, for some odd reason, cannot bring myself to cancel my audible subscription, I’ve decided to try listening to audiobooks before bed. And boy does that work! 15 minutes in and I’m fast asleep! It stretched out my “reading” time for this […]

Oh dear Great Spaghetti Monster, they know not what they say in your name

Super Spaghetti by Rebecca Donnelly

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At first, I thought Super Spaghetti was going to be about a picky eater. Nope. Then thought that it might be a “Big Anthony” in Strega Nona type of story. Nope. Then I said, WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? as our main character, Fred, gets engulfed in spaghetti and turns into a superhero. There are too many things going on that never “meshed” for me. It needed some more sauce to the idea of a boy trying to deal with the invention of a spaghetti maker that went crazy. […]

“Hope, because that is what we must give him, what we must give all of them. Hope and guidance and a place to call their own, a home where they can be who they are without fear of repercussion”

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

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It’s rare that I say everyone should read a particular book, but this is a book everyone, of all ages, should read.  TJ Klune has spun a beautiful story in The House in the Cerulean Sea.  It’s about finding one’s place in the world, learning to re-write the narrative others have placed on one’s self, that bigotry and fear can be overcome, and that acceptance can be found, starting sometimes as small as with one person to then slowly grow. Linus Baker is an investigator […]

Blood Colony – Tananarive Due (2008)

Blood Colony by Tananarive Due

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As with the third book of almost any series, it’s hard to write about this one without getting into the plot. One thing that happened almost immediately in the transition between the first and second book, and now the second and third book is that the world has been allowed to move forward without us. This is something that takes patience as a writer, and as a reader. We’re given plenty of information to catch us back up, but we’re also treated with respect. So […]

A comfortable, enjoyable conclusion to an overall fun trilogy

The Conjurer by Luanne G. Smith

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The Conjurer is the third and final installment in the Vine Witch series. All three women, Elena the vine witch, Yvette the fee, and Sidra the jinni, who bound their fates together in a fateful jail cell are back, this time to aid Sidra whether they want to or not. Sidra and Yvette are ousted from the Fee lands by Yvette’s grandfather and king and transplanted to Sidra’s old hometown. Elena is visited by Sidra’s brother-in-law Jamra who is hellbent on revenge for the murder of […]



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