Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

All the fuss

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

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I chose this book based on popularity and on its genre. It tells the story of two agents, red and blue, fighting across time and worlds as part of an ongoing war between their two organizations. As they dip in and out of time, they begin a correspondence. Through this correspondence, we learn bits and pieces about who they are, what and how they are made, and the role they and their kind play. As their flirting develops into deeper feelings, they must each decide […]

Brutal yet often funny, Joe Abercrombie’s return to adult fantasy

A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie

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Savine dan Glotka – “One man’s mad is another’s perceptive” Isern-i-Phail – “One man’s mad is another’s remarkable” In the mid 2000’s I discovered Joe Abercrombie’s gritty and brutal “First Law Trilogy”.  It was unlike any fantasy I had read up to that point and I tore through it.  But for whatever reason I never picked up the standalone volumes that occurred afterwards.  A few years ago Abercrombie put out a YA fantasy series that I was overall disappointed with, excellent first book, second was […]

She of the Diamante Garters and Pearl-Handled Pistol

The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions by Kelly Greenwood

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In this collection of detective stories, Phryne Fisher recovers missing jewelry and missing people, thwarts blackmailers, and cracks codes, all while remaining as cool and unflappable as ever. I adore the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. The author wrote a short note at the beginning of the book about how Miss Fisher came to be – she wanted to write a sort of female James Bond, with the glamour and the adventure and the romance, except better than James Bond because her books are not sexist […]

Up Up and Crash… after saving the day

Sort of Super by Eric Gapstu

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At first, I almost did not finish this book due in March 2022.  I was thinking that Sort of Super was just another kid superhero who has the brain of a grape. One should not be thinking “Dumba$$” about an eleven-year-old/middle school kid. But Wyatt is a dumb dumba$$. I understand not being able to handle his powers or having misunderstandings (we all have had to calibrate to our “other left”), but even a kid should know what a “Muggle Dumbledore” means (not that he […]

Diving In

Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan

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This is my first review and I am excited that it is for a Rick Riordan book (because it’s the book I happened to be reading this week). I first read a Percy Jackson book because my 9-year-old son wanted me to read it, so we could talk about it together. After reading the first chapter, I found myself compelled to read the next and the next, needing to know what happens to Percy. And then I read through the rest of the series, then […]

Let the Spinnin’ Wheel Spin

Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy B. Hughes

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Three men from Chicago find themselves in an unnamed New Mexico town for the annual Fiesta, and it’s not by coincidence. Sailor is our flawed protagonist. The product of a rough upbringing, he escaped poverty through the help of Senator Willis Douglas, a corrupt politician. After a falling out, Sailor has tracked the Senator to this out of the way place in hopes of getting paid off for services rendered. The third man is Chief McIntyre of the Chicago police, still looking into the death […]



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