Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Of mice and soup

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

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Cbr14bingo Cozy “being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread” This charming Newberry Award winning story is about a heroic little mouse and the princess he loves. It’s also about the pitfalls of being an outsider and the power of forgiveness. Despereaux’s family marks him as different and doomed from the moment he is born. Too small, with ears too big and born with his eyes open (an ill omen), everything about the little mouse disappoints his parents […]

An Honest Living

An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy

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The novel begins in New York in the early 2010s when our narrator takes up a case related to an upcoming divorce. This takes him to the world of book collecting. He’s been asked by a woman to find evidence that her husband has or is planning to sell off legal transcripts (a particular item in book collecting). He poses as a collector and receives a list of texts and an offer to sell, the evidence he needs. We learn that he’s a disaffected lawyer […]

It’s not what you are but what you do

The School for Good and Evil Book 1 by Soman Chainani

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Cbr14bingo Question (Bingo)— How did I not know I had this book? Why did it take me so long to finally read it? What do “good” and “evil” even mean? Looking over my bookshelves as I often do figuring out what to read next, this book, which I think has been there for years, recently stood out because I recognized it as the title of a movie coming out on Netflix in October. I have no idea how I came to be in possession of […]

Well the kids have to learn about TekWar sooner or later.

TekWar by "William Shatner"

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The made for television movie of TekWar came out when I was in late elementary school or middle school and I was hooked. I loved it. I had no idea what was going on, but it involved a computer drug that people tapped into that let people experience whatever they wanted for a price. It also involved a cryogenically frozen ex-cop who was framed for dealing Tek and who was let out in order to do…something. If all this sounds vaguely familiar, well, maybe you’ve […]

Action, Adventure, Witcher-ing

Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski

The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski

Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski

The Tower of the Swallows by Andrzej Sapkowski

The Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski

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I started on the Witcher Saga by Andrzej Sapkowski a while ago, after hearing that it was going to be adapted into a Netflix series. After watching (and enjoying!) the first season, I thought I would get around to finishing the series eventually, but it took watching (and enjoying!) the second season before I really got my act together to work my way through the rest of the books.  Overall, I enjoyed each of these books. I thought that the balance of humor and action […]

Hardly Getting Over It

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

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  Paul Tremblay is at his best when he’s making you question what’s actually happening in his novels. Was the teen girl in A Head Full of Ghosts really possessed?  Was it really the apocalypse in The Cabin at the End of the World?  That’s what he’s doing here in The Pallbearers Club; a story about a friendship that starts in the late 1980s and lasts until the present day. He first peppers you with the main characters recollections only to refute them a few pages later.  You will […]



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