Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Brief History? Worth Every One of the 686 Pages.

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

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As I descend further into dad-hood, I find myself being more patient for longer books and movies. I mean, I recently sat through 3:15 of Barry Lyndon and loved almost every minute of it. So I figured it was finally time to tackle this one, a book which I must’ve started three or four times only to put off due to its length and a lack of patience trying to understand the Jamaican patois. Better late than never ’cause this book is great. I’m finding more and […]

[got me] to a nunnery!

Matrix by Lauren Groff

Heloise & Abelard: A New Biography by James Burge

The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici by Elizabeth Lev

Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a 17th Century Forbidden Love by Myriam Cyr

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I thought I was going to need some time to recover from the exquisite The Everlasting, but really it flung me head-first into a literal rabbit-hole. A warren. An abbey. A nunnery, if you will. Also- The Atlantic just posted a list of books that were done dirty by pandemic releases, and OF COURE The Everlasting resides within those vaulted halls. I was immediately drawn to Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici after she was mentioned several times in The Everlasting. A distant relative of her spots her likeness in the […]

“Shara’s not nice. Shara’s so many more important things than nice.”

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

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4.5 stars It’s not exactly easy being Chloe Green, the bisexual girl with two mums when also trying to become valedictorian at Willowgrove Christian Academy in a small Alabama town. She keeps trying to protest against the school’s puritanical rules with frequent dress code violations, but also has to make sure she doesn’t actually end up expelled. Chloe has friends, having quickly befriended the other queer kids at Willowgrove, but she’s mostly avoided interacting too much with the rest of the student body. Everything changes […]

Wrapping Up My In Death Mini-Read Spree

Judgment in Death by J.D. Robb

Betrayal in Death by J.D. Robb

Interlude in Death by J.D. Robb

Seduction in Death by J.D. Robb

Reunion in Death by J.D. Robb

Purity in Death by J.D. Robb

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Well I think that I will wrap up my “In Death” mini-reading spree with these. I will probably come back to the series to “catch up” so to speak with my reviews down the line. I have read the entire series and novellas, I just never had much of the energy to go back and post reviews on Amazon. A few years back there was a huge blow up in the “In Death” community when there was a big issued with a huge continuity error […]

The Softest Romance in Space

Eclipse the Moon by Jessie Mihalik

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This series continues to bring me an infinite amount of joy with the romance and brings such great tension with the politics and power moves going on in the periphery. Only thing I don’t like is now I have to wait for the next book!! I love how Eclipse the Moon continues Starlight’s Shadow series, and especially Kee. She is one of my favorite characters, and I see so many pieces of myself in how she needs reminders to change tasks and worries about coming […]

Another Victorian Mystery

A Dangerous Mourning by Anne Perry

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I reviewed Anne Perry’s first William Monk mystery here. This one, A Dangerous Mourning, is similar: a woman is stabbed to death in the home of her upper class Victorian family. No one could have possibly gotten out of the house after the murder, so the murderer is one of the family or the servants. In the last novel, Detective Monk worked to solve a mystery while struggling with amnesia after an accident. Little by little memories come back to him, but he spends much […]



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