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 think a woman should inspire a modicum of terror. It is her right.

A Lady for All Seasons by TJ Alexander

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A Lady for All Seasons reminded me of a Shakespeare comedy – fluid genders, secret identities, couples trying to arrange themselves rather than be arranged, and at least a few fools. Be warned, Lord Byron makes multiple appearances. We met Lady Verbena and Éttienne Charbonneau in A Gentleman’s Gentleman. When Christopher (Lord Eden) and James left the country to avoid the requirement that Christopher marry to retain his inheritance, he transferred ownership of his London house to Éttienne. Now a year later, Verbena needs a […]

My Fate is in Your Hands

This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner

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You can also add this to the list of books I have been meaning to read for a while Back in September 2005, Robert Farquharson’s VN Commodore swerved off the Princess Highway not far from the town of  Winchelsea and dove straight into a dam. His three young sons—Jai, Tayler and Bailey—had been in the car with him and while Farquharson was able to get free, the boys all drowned.  Farquharson claimed that it was all an accident; he supposedly suffered from a coughing fit […]

Shaping our shape of self

Unretouchable by Sofia Szamosi

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While looking at online reader copies that were new to the site I use, I found Bad Kid (a Graphic Memoir): My Life as a Troubled Teen by Sofia Szamosi. It said it was a companion to Unretouchable. Which, of course, meant that if I wanted to read Bad Kid, my brain said, you need Unretouchable. Therefore, off to the library I went to pick up a copy via interlibrary loan. Szamosi discusses the beauty industry and how she is both part of and wants […]

You Did Nothing Wrong by C.G. Drews

You Did Nothing Wrong by C.G. Drews

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. I have to say, I am glad that I gave C.G. Drews another chance. I did not care for the first book that I read by them, Don’t Let The Forest In, and once I found out there was going to be another book in that series I went, well that’s a hard pass. But I saw a fellow friend/reviewer who loved this book so gave them another chance. […]

Sitting with Jane Eyre, Again

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

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I have read and reread Jane Eyre many times in my life. As a child, teenager, young woman. This time the book invited me to reread her while I was on a trip to London. I was sitting in what felt to me (40 something somewhat dowdy professor-lady) like an impossibly cool art/bar/vibey space in Peckham that thankfully had bookshelves with used books available to read. With a glass of wine I spotted Jane Eyre, scooped her up, and found a spot in a corner […]

Three sci-fi books making me think about robots and AI

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

Rose/House by Arkady Martine

Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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The end of January to the very beginning of March has had the good fortune to have three excellent books looking at robots, AI, sentience, autonomy, finding meaning, and limitations on the flawed way humanity has programmed robots/AI.  While setting up this post, I just realized all the author’s first name start with A.  Huh, kind of interesting. First up was a novella by Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle.  This is the most fun and lighthearted of the bunch.  It is the year 2064, a few years […]



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