Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Featured Review Archive

These reviews, which were promoted in CBR social media, on our homepage, and in Pajiba Love, appear below by review publication date, not by date featured.

 

I need to feel certain in who I’m kissing. I mean, a kiss isn’t just a kiss to me.

Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky

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I was so excited when Never Been Kissed was selected as one of the Cannon Book Club Hot Fun in the Summertime books. I hope you, dear reader, will join our discussion on June 23&24. Timothy Janovsky has been on my list of authors I’d like to read for a while. In the large field of m/m (all male love interest) romances, he is one of a few men writing. Even rarer, he is a traditionally published author writing m/m new adult romantic comedies. To […]

I don’t want to be that guy….but Cormac McCarthy wrote a really good book.

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

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I sometimes think of myself as a smart man. But I’m not a smart man. I’m just interested in a lot of things, so I have a tendency to look into a lot of things. That gives me a broad but fairly shallow knowledge base upon which I can build my reality. Since I go wherever my interests direct me, I can’t always predict where I’ll be, or what I’ll experience. When I try and set a course, I find that I start to drift […]

Quotable Tomato History

Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World by William Alexander

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Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World is presented as both history and investigation, and it’s got a lot of both. It’s pretty readable for non-fiction based in science, but the biggest thing it’s got going for it is a lot of interesting facts that don’t necessarily always go together. There’s some tension in the narration and story-telling, and the factual reporting, but overall it’s a pretty decent read. No wonder I have to give it back to the library without a renewal (someone’s already put […]

Monks & Nuns & Ivy Oh My!

The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hester Fox

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I’ve read some real stinkers lately but luckily this gentle gothic mystery wasn’t one of them. The story begins in London, 1925, with young Ivy Radcliffe hurrying to her appointment with an unknown solicitor. Ivy lives a life of poverty and struggle in the East End. She has lost her whole family somewhat recently, her father and brother in the trenches of the Great War and her mother of illness soon after. The solicitor informs Ivy that she is now Lady Hayward, inheritor of the […]

Bird families and our own

A Bird Will Soar by Alison Green Myers

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Axel is fascinated with an eagle family nesting in the woods behind his house. He loves all birds and everything about them, but checking in daily on the eaglet (eaglets?) and their parents is particularly meaningful. When a tornado decimates Axel’s neighborhood and injures one of the eaglets, his world is rocked. Under the capable hands of the local wildlife rehabilitation vet, Axel hopes the bird will heal. And in the meantime, his own broken family attempts to piece their home and their lives back […]

A very lovely romance about two complex people on the search for belonging

Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

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4.5 stars 15-word review: Trying to get some direction in her life, Georgie turns to a new-found teenage journal Longer review: Georgie is feeling adrift. She’s worked as a personal assistant for a number of industry people in L.A, and was really good at it. Now, however, her former boss decided to retire to the countryside and doesn’t need a P.A. anymore. Georgie is free to go home to her family to realise her own dreams, the only problem is, she has no idea what […]



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