Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Kim was starlight and privilege; Will had his feet firmly fixed in the mud. They didn’t belong together. Except they did.”

Subtle Blood by K.J. Charles

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CBR14 Bingo: Scandal (the book features corruption, blackmail, kidnapping, and murder – not to mention gay people in the 1920s. Gasp!) Spoiler warning! This is the third book in a trilogy. While you can absolutely read this book without the others, you will not get all the beautiful payoff from various earlier storylines that way. Also, this review will contain mild spoilers for earlier in the series. Start with Slippery Creatures. For the last few months, Lord Arthur “Kim” Secretan and Will Darling have actually […]

Himes

Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes

Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes

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Cotton Comes to Harlem 4/5 I am sometimes a little lukewarm about this series, but this one is great. Usually what I like about the series is that it wastes no time jumping into the action, especially offering up some crazy action right from the start. My favorite of the books really pull that off. Here we begin with a closed gate event in a parking lot where a minister (a grifter we know from a previous book) is selling people on a one-way trip […]

Mycroft Holmes 2 and 3

Mycroft and Sherlock by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Anna Waterhouse

The Empty Birdcage by Anna Waterhouse; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Mycroft and Sherlock In the first book of this series, we mostly get Mycroft, who if I recall correctly was living abroad in the foreign service and solving his own little mysteries (they’re actually quite big mysteries really). Now Mycroft is returned to England and knows he needs to check on his brother, who is becoming quite the layabout. Well, only in the sense that’s refuses to be a grownup and figure out a career and its prospects. Sherlock is shown here as deeply frenetic, […]

As the song goes, What’s love got to do with it?

The Love Report by BeKa and Maya

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The Love Report has been giving me several fits. The first being that it is not out until at least mid-June 2023, the second being it is not yet in our system so I cannot send reviews for “talking up” on our website or show I read it on sites I use to count my reading. And finally, I am not sure if I liked it. Now, that sounds odd, I know. I do know I did not dislike, but like is another story. We […]

Who needs a yeti?

Yetis Are the Worst! by Alex Willan

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Gilbert the Goblin is convinced yetis are not nearly as mysterious as they seem, and sets off to find one to prove once and for all that Goblins are just as cool and mysterious as the elusive yeti. (Directly stolen, I mean borrowed, from the publisher description). And you get a funny journey when Gilbert tries to do this in Yetis Are the Worst! by Alex Willan. In the same pattern as their Unicorns Are the Worst and Dragons Are the Worst, your child will […]

Special lesson and good food.

The Best Kind of Mooncake by Pearl Auyeung

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There are several books about kindness, and The Best Kind of Mooncake by Pearl Auyeung includes that lesson, plus ones about family, friendship, community, and culture, too. One morning in Hong Kong, a young girl and her siblings are promised a mooncake that was the best of the best. But they will have to wait, and the long day in her family’s spot in the market drags. Soon it is time to eat, but there is an odd thing that happens, making it so the […]



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