Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Grab Bag #2

Yearbook by Seth Rogen

Will by Will Smith and Mark Manson

Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

End of Watch by Stephen King

Runnin' With the Devil by Noel E. Monk with Joe Layden

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

Last Guard Out by Jim Albright

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I am falling so far behind on reviews it’s time for another grab bag! You may look at this list and say “Wow, Tyler (not my real name), you are all over the place with genres!” To which I reply in my best Scar/Jeremy Irons voice “You have no idea.” I tend to be mercurial with my interests and obsessions and just go wherever the whim takes me. Also whatever I see that looks interesting at the library because we are blessed to have a […]

Romance re-read

Copper Beach by Jayne Ann Krentz

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So in a bit of a re-read moment currently. It’s winter, it’s cold and work is stressful. I quite enjoy Jayne Ann Krentz’s books, across all of her names, so they are often a comfortable re-read.  There are some definite tics though, which are more apparent when one binges.  Things that often happen: Heroine has no family/dead family/family that are not supportive/supportive family that don’t understand her.  I have yet to read one of her novels where the heroine has a completely supportive and in […]

Reese Witherspoon, How Could You?

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

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Starting at age six, Kya Clark’s family members left her behind one by one until she was living in the Carolina marshes all alone. Why did they do this? Well, because Delia Owens needed them to, I suppose. Another good question is how in the heck a child is supposed to get by on her own, to which the answer is apparently by gathering and selling mussels. Eventually, somehow, Kya grows up, learns to read, becomes an expert on the flora and fauna of the […]

The Opposite is Always Present

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

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CBR Bingo: Shadow All things had opposites close by, every decision a reason against it, every animal an animal that destroys it, the male the female, the positive the negative. The splitting of the atom was the only true destruction, the breaking of the universal law of oneness. Nothing could be without its opposite that was bound up with it. Strangers on a Train is not the first time I’ve read Patricia Highsmith. I’ve read her short stories (still scarred by “The Terrapin,” thanks), one […]

The epitome of British stoicism?

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

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I am getting married in less than a month. This is relevant because when my fiancé and I started dating, he was shocked I hadn’t read anything by Kazuo Ishiguro, and he loaned me his copy of Never Let Me Go. I thought the book was very good, and I was very impressed by my new boyfriend. I’ve been meaning to read more books by Ishiguro for ages, but only recently got around to The Remains of the Day (1990). I have vague memories of seeing the trailer […]

If the Grinch meet Frosty the Snowman there would be Fox

Hello, Tree by Alistair Heim

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cbr14bingo Holiday Level 1 & 2 Ho Ho Ho! And big barrel of trouble!  Fox in this rhyming Christmas tail, um…tale is a modern-day Grinch. Only after his heart grew, but he is stealing… (No, really! It makes sense really, just read this picture book!) Hello, Tree by Alistair Heim is a holiday book through and through. It has holiday images on the cover, the story is a rhyming text about all the wonderful holiday things seen in the town. The text itself is terribly […]



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