Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Girl on the Train saw the Woman in the Window was the Last House Guest

The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda

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I picked up this book at my favorite thrift and was excited to read it as I had read another Megan Miranda book, All the Missing Girls, and I really enjoyed it. But when I started reading through the first couple chapters of Last House Guest, I realized Miranda has a particular style of writing that she uses in in her books. I immediately recognized the plot beats, the similar use of flashback, the breadcrumbs left at the end of each chapter. I was left […]

Ferrante Never Misses

The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante

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…I state, after only reading two of her novels and two of her shorter pieces…but at this rate, I am all-in on Elena Ferrante and I am STILL mad at myself for taking this long to catch on. I’m two books deep in the Neapolitan Novels, but I had to interrupt my trajectory for two reasons: I needed to read this story before seeing the new (read: 2021) film adaptation I need to see the film in order to solidify all of my (mostly negative) […]

“Life was far from harried here. But neither was it still.”

Still Life by Louise Penny

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In a small village in Quebec, a beloved retired teacher is found dead in the woods. She has been shot through the heart by an arrow. Is it murder, or simply a tragic hunting accident? Enter Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, sent from Montreal to investigate. In the way of murder mysteries everywhere, the tiny village of Three Pines is full of odd characters, many of whom are hiding secrets. This is not quite a cozy mystery, and not quite a procedural, either. What this book […]

84, Charing Cross Road for baseball fans

Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger

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Last Days of Summer tells the story of a friendship between Joey Margolis, a Jewish kid growing up in 1940s Brooklyn, and Charlie Banks, a third-baseman for the New York Giants. Joey’s father is completely absent from his life, and it ain’t easy being the Jewish kid at school without a dad (he gets beat up a lot). As a result, Joey acts out, gets himself thrown into juvie for peeing in the reservoir, and embarks on a relentless campaign to get the attention of […]

I Am Somewhat Less in Awe, But Still In It

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J Maas

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Bryce Quinlan, half-human and half-Fae, has been revealed to be Starborn, and life has changed completely with it. But everything is not smooth sailing for her and Hunt after the dangers of the last book, for they have made powerful enemies, and their unbalanced world has dangerous secrets. After how much I enjoyed the last book I am a little disappointed. But first the good. The writing remains enthralling, the world-building exciting, and some of the twists and turns made me gasp aloud – while […]

A fun, sexy conclusion

The Don by Katrina Jackson

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It isn’t new to say Katrina Jackson is one of my absolute favorite authors and I hate that she made me love a mafia romance series, but here we are. The Don has been being set up since Beautiful and Dirty, and what a fantastic conclusion to the series! Now to wait for the spin-offs~ Shae and her cousin are sent to Italy by the Council of Aunties to retrieve her other cousin, but almost immediately she runs into Salvatore – a man she met […]



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