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.

 

Getting Back In Touch with the Cycles in Our Lives

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May

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Rating: 2.5 Stars In a nutshell: Author May explores the changing of the seasons and the different ways we weather the literal and metaphorical winters of our lives, as told sort of in memoir form. Best for: I’m not entirely sure. Perhaps those experiencing challenges right now? This book is a bit all over the place. Quote that made me think: “The needle breaks the fabric in order to repair it. You can’t have one without the other.” “Have we really got so far into […]

Princess of the Shtetl? Prince of my Heart!

Princess of the Shtetl by Jake Maia Arlow

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Princess of the Shtetl is one of my most anticipated releases, and it was so worth the wait (even though y’all are going to have to wait a bit longer because it’s not out until January – I’m sorry/you’re welcome?). Jake writes fantastic, fun middle grade novels, and Princess of the Shtetl is far and away his best to date. Princess follows Bunke, an eleven-year-old girl living in a Russian shtetl during a time when the dangers to Jewish families are increasing and young Jewish boys […]

“It’s like there’s something about me that just encourages people to want me dead. Probably my sparkling personality.”

A Divided Duty: An October Daye Novel (#20) by Seanan McGuire

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Four months after the events of Silver and Lead, October “Toby” Daye is settling into motherhood once again, now the bonus of not having to hide her or her child’s true nature from the other parent. Of course her life is even more dangerous now than it was when Gillian was young, so thankfully Toby has a full household to help her keep her daughter safe in the house, away from the terrors that Faerie has to offer. (Still trying to find that work/life balance, […]

So Remember This for Spooky Season Next Year.

Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories by Algernon Blackwood

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Read this collection during the Spooky Season, a couple of months back, and it was perfect. One of the stories, Ancient Sorceries, has been included in many an anthology, and I read it for the first time at about the age of 12.  As a life-long cat owner, I heartily approve.  The fact that Egyptians considered them deity-adjacent is not at all surprising.  But two of the other stories intrigued me greatly.  In both cases, there was no being that was the antagonist, but rather […]

Hockey and romance

Bombshells by Sarina Bowen

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I went through a phase some years ago where I read a lot of books by Sarina Bowen because I found them fun and entertaining. Recently, I was looking for good road trip books, and I looked her up again. I realized that I had missed a couple, and decided now was the time to do some catch up. I’m not sure if I intentionally skipped over Bombshells (2021) or I somehow missed it, but I was happy to find another Bowen book that I had not […]

Vaccination Against Consumerism Pt 2.

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

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cbr18bingo: wealth (“Oil painting, before it was anything else, was a celebration of private property.”) If you are the kind of person who would enjoy reading a historical oil painting to filth; if you would like to understand why art museums are “like that”; if you have always been slightly confused by the (financial) system of worship so easily observed in art galleries around the world: Ways of Seeing is the book for you. Or, perhaps, this is the 4-part BBC miniseries for you. The miniseries memorably […]



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