Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A decidedly average Pratchett

Pyramids by Terry Pratchett

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Another year, another book down on my meandering tour through Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. This time it was Pyramids, which I had high hopes for because it was published around the same time as Mort, which was great, and Guards! Guards!, the perfection of which is only muted by the fact that Men at Arms and Feet of Clay are even better. Pyramids was… eh. It was fine. There were some funny moments. I listened to it on audiobook, and as usual enjoyed Nigel Planer’s narration. The story is about Pteppic, the […]

A Literary Dystopia with a Humorous Twist

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

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In the alternate universe of The Eyre Affair, classic art and literature are Serious Business. Gangs of Raphaelites brawl in the street with their Surrealist arch-nemeses, Shakespeare performances are met with the same level of audience participation and enthusiasm as a midnight showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the Literary Detectives exist as a special branch of law enforcement to handle all crimes relating to books. Our heroine Thursday Next is one such detective. However, this alternate universe is hardly a book-lover’s paradise. […]

You Had One Rule, Just the One

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

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This is the latest of the Wayward Children novellas, and it returns the reader to the world of the Moors – the home that Jack and Jill found when they went through their door.  McGuire’s second novella explored Jack and Jill’s life before they attended the Home for Wayward Children.  I actually hadn’t expected her to return the Moors, but Jack and Jill’s return at the end of the Every Heart a Doorway had certainly left the potential to explore more of their story. The […]

People are Not Tools to be Used

Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha) by Tasha Suri

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I was incredibly fortunate to have Bothari43 as my CBR11 Book Exchange gifter. I gave her a list of authors and she rewarded me with a bounty, all of which you will eventually hear about. By coincidence, the Romance Sparks Joy book club announced that their January read is Tasha Suri’s Empire of Sand, one of the books Bothari43 gifted to me. You can follow RSJ on twitter @SparkJoyRomance. The general discussion of the book has already happened, but there will be a chat about […]

TFW you’ve been to Hell and back

Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey

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Betrayed by his friends who sent him to Hell, James Stark (don’t call him Jimmy) has spent the eleven years since fighting in the demon pits and acting as a hitman for Lucifer. Having been given a very special key in order to commit his kills, Stark can now pretty much walk through shadows to gain access anywhere, which is how he’s escaped Hell and returned to the world determined to take revenge on his former friends. While talking a very good game about how […]

He’s cunning. He’s brilliant… He is a Cat

Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat Volume 1 by Johnny Marciano

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Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat Volume 1 had two things going for it when I picked it up: First, it was a short novel and second, it was something I normally did not read fitting the criteria of this year (read novels and things not normally read). Klawde is a new series (volume two and volume three are also out; volume four due in May 2020) by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth. It is humorous, a little raunchy at times and is a slightly different […]



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