Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Just ok, but with plenty of familiar cozy beats

Death at Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn

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CBR Bingo: Self-care (favorite genre to read for comfort, plus I read it while on a self-care vacation) Daisy Dalrymple, like so many cozy mystery heroines before her, lives in post-WWI England, comes from a wealthy family but it somewhat impoverished due to her insistence on making her own way, and is bright, pretty, and assertive. If you’ve read cozy mysteries, you’ve read about women like Daisy, but that doesn’t make her any less likable–just not very memorable. Death at Wentwater Court is the first Daisy […]

Next Thursday

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

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I bought Richard Osman’s first novel, The Thursday Murder Club, mainly out of curiosity. I enjoy Osman’s television persona on various UK panel shows and as the co-host of Pointless and the host of House of Games and I thought that his intellectual brand of humor might make his book a diverting read. The massive sales figures and rave reviews clued me in that The Thursday Murder Club might rise above the typical level of “TV star turns their hand to writing fiction” output, but […]

This comic is so incredibly sweet

Heartstopper, vol 4 by Alice Oseman

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CBR13 Bingo: Reader’s Choice (replaces White Whale) Charlie and Nick are getting crazier and crazier about each other, they still haven’t actually declared their feelings fully for one another. That’s one hurdle that can be monumental in any relationship, let alone between already insecure teens. While Nick’s Mum is incredibly supportive, he still hasn’t come out to his Dad, who is going to be visiting soon, and based on his brother, he’s not sure how his father is going to react. Then there’s the rather […]

“Are you confused?”

Poison For Breakfast by Lemony Snicket

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Lemony Snicket, the pen name of writer Daniel Handler, is such a clever writer.  If you haven’t read his Series of Unfortunate Events, stop reading this right now and go read those books instead (they will prove to be better written and more amusing than any book review I can write.)  After you read them, watch the wonderful Netflix adaptation starring Neil Patrick Harris.  But I digress, so does Lemony Snicket, he digresses and rambles on throughout his charming new book Poison for Breakfast (digress […]

One day, one of these books is going to knock my socks off…I hope

How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole

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Official book description: Makeda Hicks has lost her job and her girlfriend in one fell swoop. The last thing she’s in the mood for is to rehash the story of her grandmother’s infamous summer fling with a runaway prince from Ibarania, or the investigator from the World Federation of Monarchies tasked with searching for Ibarania’s missing heir. Yet when Beznaria Chetchevaliere crashes into her life, the sleek and sexy investigator exudes exactly the kind of chaos that organized and efficient Makeda finds irresistible, even if […]

I am really happy I stuck with this trilogy.

The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin

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While my reviews of Cronin’s first two books in this trilogy, The Passage and The Twelve, were not the most favourable (more because of my personal taste than anything else), I am really happy I persisted through to the end of this 1000-year-spanning epic series. To recap, it follows the spread of a virus that jumps from animals to humans with such rapidity that Earth’s population is very nearly wiped out completely. Two ‘viral’ leaders emerge – Amy and Zero – in what ends up […]



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