Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Basically a digital scrapbook murder mystery

These Toxic Things by Rachel Howzell Hall

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I’m just going to start this one by saying that my review is full of spoilers. I don’t know how to talk about this book without ruining it! I’m not sure if anyone reading this review wants to read the book, so I’ll do a little intro, then move onto the spoilers with plenty of warning. The main character is a young woman named Mickie Lambert. I had a realllly hard time connecting to her. She’s in her early 20’s living above her parent’s garage. […]

Double header re-read in advance of another trilogy finale

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

Us Against You by Fredrik Backman

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I never wrote a review for this one because it was before my quest to review everything I’ve read, but I really wish I had because my view on these books has changed pretty dramatically in the three and a half years it’s been since I first picked these up on the recommendation of my good friend and voracious bibliophile Aileen. Things I still think are true: Backman is one of my favorite authors writing today, for all that I’ve only read his works in […]

“And if one is never lost in life, then clearly one has never traveled anywhere interesting.” Review Dump 3.

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman

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Thanks to this group, 2022 was the year in which I discovered Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim, otherwise known as the Thursday Murder Club. The Club has a few other members. Donna and Chris, sometimes Bogdan, and even Alan. And I cannot read about their adventures quickly enough. Why aren’t there 90 books about these people? For the very few who do not know, the Thursday Murder Club is a group of seniors who live in a retirement community and review unsolved murder cases in […]

Nora is at it again! Medicine in ye olde ages blows, people

The Surgeon's Daughter by Audrey Blake

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I find myself really enjoying this series and looking forward to seeing where it goes next. In this installment, we follow Nora as she attempts to gain a medical education–a real one–in Italy, where they teach female medical students and sexism is solved and everything is great. JK you know that nothing is that simple. Nora is in Italy and finds herself facing many issues that wouldn’t be so out of date for a woman of the modern world: fellow student (male) doctors who are […]

Re-reads in anticipation of the last–Scholomance delivers

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

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Re-re-read in advance of The Golden Enclaves, September 2022 Knowing now what I know about how this book is actually a semi-subversive (and by which I mean not at all subversive, was I just under a rock this whole while?) pushback on JKR’s Wizarding World(TM), it’s doubly fascinating to re-re-enter the world of the Scholomance through the eyes of El, our crotchety crocheting evil enchantress in the making. I had read once that Novik wrote Scholomance in a response to the logical inconsistencies of the Potterverse, […]

Book Exchange! Thank you Jenny S!

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Funny story: I was told that one of the books would be arriving late but I actually got the delivery notice the day after the first was received… except I couldn’t find the package anywhere. One of my neighbors texted me to let me know they’d gotten a package for me…. except they’d already left on vacation! Last night they dropped it off and just as I suspected, it was the second book! Thank you so much, Jenny S! They’re both top of my TBR for […]



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