Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Beauty and the Beast with no Stockholm syndrome and more magic

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

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In 2020 I read Naomi Novik’s, Spinning Silver, which I found to be an excellent reimaging of Rumpelstiltskin.  I finished the review with,  “Uprooted is going on my “wish list”.  Between then and now I got Uprooted in a Cannonball fundraiser but it has sat on the shelf.  I had this slated for the “Bird” square in Cannonball Bingo because of the bird on the cover.  However, I ran out of time and used Transmetropolitan volume 2: Lust for Life instead. I’ve long been a fan of […]

Killer Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

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As someone who watched a whole lot of Game Show Network reruns as a child, Fannie Flagg was familiar to me from her Match Game appearances. Though she demonstrated a quick wit from her perch next to Richard Dawson, I was still surprised to find out that she also a popular author. Thanks to the 1991 film adaptation, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is her best known novel. Like the film, the novel is a set of parallel stories. In the frame […]

A little disappointing

Luck of the Draw by Kate Clayborn

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I’ve tried Kate Clayborn before when I read Love at First at a friend’s recommendation. It was all right, but I didn’t love it. So I recently decided to give Clayborn another try with Luck of the Draw (2018). I was excited because the protagonist is a lawyer who won the lottery! I was a lawyer, and I would love to win the lottery, so I figured I’d be able to relate. There were some fun parts to this book, I guess, but I also didn’t love this one. Zoe Ferris […]

“Sometimes, death is a blessing, even if we don’t realize it right away.”

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

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I was gifted Under the Whispering Door Winter Solstice, 2021.  Narfna described it as a ‘warm hug’ in her review and I wanted to save it for when such a book was needed.  Somehow almost a year has passed and it sat on the shelf.  When looking for my next read I swear I could hear the book say, “You should read me before you get more books for this year’s Winter Solstice book exchange”.  The book had a point so I picked it up and […]

Whimsey in the Face of the Mundane

The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune

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This was a gift from last year’s book exchange, and while I finished it a while back, I think I put off reviewing it because I prioritised all the Hugo works for Bingo instead; I had a harder time fitting this into my scorecard calculus! What this did mean though is that I had some extra time to read through a second time around. And would you believe it was even more wonderful the second time? At the start of The House in the Cerulean […]

Thank You andtheIToldYouSos, and Happy Holidays!

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Oh my God, I love it! Thank you andtheIToldYouSos! I know I am a bit of a pain when it comes to the book exchange because I don’t really leave much detail as to what to get me—decisions are hard! But I love everything here from the two new authors that I have never read before, the extraterrestrial-themed cards and mask, the Spice Girls card(!) And the friendship bracelets! (And they did they put me in mind of a certain someone, was that deliberate?) I […]



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