Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Despite what you seem to think, it’s not hard to love you, Cynthie; it’s easy. It’s the easiest thing I’ve ever done.”

Let's Make a Scene by Laura Wood

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Cynthie Taylor needs some positive publicity, fast. Once it was revealed that not only was the film director she recently broke up with married, but his wife is pregnant, former good girl Cynthie is now seen as a manipulative home wrecker (the cheating director is obviously not getting the same negative press, what with being a man and all). Fired from a high-profile superhero movie, Cynthie may have found a new and unexpected career rescue. The writer and director of Cynthie’s first-ever movie, A Lady […]

Well gosh darn, dang it all to heck

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

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We all know the trend: young women deliberately turning their backs on the modern world and cosplaying the rural homesteading lifestyle, where they grow their own veggies, bake their own bread, butcher their own chickens and make their own clothing. The lifestyle is then perfectly captured on social media, with carefully curated pictures of blond children in gingham dresses and cowboy boots, and posts that are clearly political in nature masked as just-asking-questions. Comments on social media posts split themselves between admiration and vitriol, and […]

“I’ve never made plans with anyone before, Theo says softly, but you make me want to buy a five-year diary just so I can write your name on every page.”

Under Your Spell by Laura Wood

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4.5 stars Clementine “Clemmie” Monroe has a lot of trust issues, and they’re all because of the men in her life. Clemmie is one of three sisters, born within three months of one another, from three very different women who all got knocked up by her carefree rock star father, Rip Harris. Instead of being jealous or upset about the fact that her husband had been unfaithful, Clemmie’s mother divorced her father, bought a large house and invited the two other women to live with […]

Who’s to Blame?

Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

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The five-member Cassidy-Shaw family is on their way to eldest son Charlie’s last high school lacrosse tournament when their AI-assisted minivan becomes involved in a fatal car accident with another vehicle. Both fatalities are in the other vehicle, but the Cassidy-Shaws are far from unscathed. The accident prompts one big question: who is responsible? Charlie was technically in the driver’s seat, but the AI system was in control, theoretically. Charlie’s father Noah, a corporate lawyer, was sitting up front with him, but he was busy […]

Antelope Like Phantoms in the Snow

The Crossing by Corman McCarthy

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Fair warning here – about half the dialogue is in Spanish.  But with just my many decades old Spanish classes from the dim past, it really wasn’t that hard to follow.  It’s pretty simple, and most of it you can get from context.  But.  So you know.  This is the second book from McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, after All the Pretty Horses.  There is no connection between any of the characters, but the milieu is definitely the same. Billy and Boyd Parham are two brothers, sons […]

A minority opinion: This book is fine

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

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Last month I went away for a long weekend and stopped in a lovely little independent book store with a great backstory. Predictably, being away on holiday coupled with an adorable shop put me in book-buying mode, so when I spotted The Correspondent, its enticing cover and knowing it received so many excellent reviews compelled me to buy it. I love independently owned book shops, so I feel good about this purchase. The book itself turned out to be in the “could have been a […]



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