Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Autumn: My favorite season

Oak Leaf by John Sandford

Lawrence in the Fall by Matthew Farina

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This is going to be a two-book review. They have nothing in common other than they both deal with autumn and they are experiencing books. That means, you do not just read this book, you feel the book. Maybe that is just me. I fall into a book and walk along with the characters. Maybe I am the only one who tastes a story when I am reading, or that all my senses come into play. No, I do not eat a book (though we […]

Let’s hang around together and read some bat-tastic books!

Rufus: The Bat Who Loved Colors by Tomi Ungerer

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One morning, before the store was open, I found myself going to our children’s department. Coming out of the elevator, our sale book display assaulted my eyes with colors and their flashy hollering of “Read me!”  But the one that won my reading time was a black covered book about a bat called Rufus. The signature style of writing and illustrations of Tomi Ungerer tell you what you need to know about this book. But I know you might need/want more. As the title says, […]

Stay with me – what if the library was evil?

Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine

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This is my reread of the series (I think the last one just came out?) and while it doesn’t hold up quite as well as I remembered, I’d set the bar on my recollection pretty darn high. The Great Library is a pretty awesome series and one I hope more people read so we can talk about it. In a setting of alternate-history-but-with-magic, the library of Alexandria now controls all knowledge. Essentially all books and information are delivered by magical eReaders and physical books (theoretically) exist […]

Burned Through Like Balefire

The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso

The Defiant Heir by Melissa Caruso

The Unbound Empire by Melissa Caruso

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Bingo Update: I’m using this for the Travel square. Each of these books centers around journeying from the protagonists home city (and center of the Empire) Raverra. It takes them to other places within the Empire (Ardence, Callamorne, Highpass) as well as key locations in the invading Vaskandar (Sevaeth, Kazerath, Let, Atruin). How quickly they can or cannot travel is also plot significant, as it relates to our heroine’s ability to stay alive as well as prevent ruin of her nation. The notion of “home” […]

This series is turning out to be a little addictive

The Desert Spear by Peter V Brett

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The second book in the Demon Cycle series, Desert Spear takes us away from Thesa and into Krasia, the country whose warrior culture has seen them become the only people to have taken up demon fighting and whose leader, Jardir, has taken the Spear of Kaji from Arlen and pronounced himself Deliverer.  As well as being warriors, the Krasian’s are also deeply religious and believe that before they can end demonkind in a Battle Royale, first they must conquer the known world, putting them on […]

A Delicious Mix of New Knowledge and Old Belief

Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson

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CBR11 Bingo Square: Travel Now perhaps the characters in this story don’t journey far beyond their city (though they do end up in the outskirts) and largely travel within it in a physical sense, but this novel also includes a journey to an unseen world of djinn, and therefore I picked it for the Travel square for CBR bingo. Alif the Unseen centers around a young hacker who goes by the pseudonym Alif, in an unnamed city along the Persian Gulf. This city is a […]



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