Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Othello

Othello by William Shakespeare

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You might not realize this, but very well-known movie “O” is actually based on an obscure 17th century play called “Othello”. I find this one of Shakespeare’s oddest tragedies, alongside Romeo and Juliet because for whatever reason, the ones in which someone is looking for social mobility, usurpation, or some other high office seeking or in the case of King Lear, already being king, feel less Shakespeare to me. I also think it’s weird because for whatever, people don’t talk about it as much as […]

The Stickiest of Sticks

The Undaunted by Kate Archer

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CBR 14 Bingo: Cozy An Heyer-esque read, this book has minimal angst, maintains cheer, and ends happily all round. Caroline is the latest of the young women to be presented by the Society of Sponsoring Ladies, but being set loose on the scandalous city of Brighton may end up too much for her reputation. Of course I snapped this book up on NetGalley as soon as it became available – I’ve been really enjoying this series, and it turns out that this is probably my […]

Outerspace, aliens and a couple of dudettes

Trapped on Zarkass by Yan

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I am giving this book a three just because I can, and the fact that I think I might have missed something very important, so it is for the potential of the things. Then again, Trapped on Zarkass could just be a big pile of alien poop and there is not anything deeper than just plain old entertainment. However, Yan’s adaptation of Stefan Wul’s novel (I believe I have the order correct on that) is not going to be entertaining for everyone. It is not […]

Are you shining just for me?

City of Girls (2019) by Elizabeth Gilbert

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CBR14 Bingo square: Scandal! Vivian Morris is involved in a scandal that scandalises her suburban upper middle-class family; the theatre is generally considered to be a disreputable environment by the polite society that relishes it. Whether or not you like City of Girls will depend on whether or not you like Vivian Morris, narrator and heroine, who is a white rich suburban girl (daddy owns a mine, mother is obsessed with horses) kicked out of Vassar in 1940 and sent to live with her theatrical […]

Once upon a time, there was a witch….and a princess

Heartless Prince by Angela De Vito

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I am not sure if I have missed a book in a series, or Heartless Prince is the first and the set up for a series, but there was something missing for me. I needed a score card to keep track of the names of the characters as they had similar names or had “fantasy” names and that was confusing. The artwork is strong, and expressive, but nothing “popped out” at me. Overall, it is a decent book but not the best. This would probably […]

Dark Tales, wooo-ooo

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

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This collection of short fiction by Shirley Jackson is not all previously uncollected or unpublished, but if you have a copy of The Lottery and Other Stories, there are no repeats for this one. About a third of these stories are found in the Library of America collection though. The stories here are called Dark Tales, and minus the memoir pieces, all Shirley Jackson stories are dark stories. What sets off most of these stories is the intrusion of darkness into otherwise ordinary lives. Sometimes […]



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