Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Violently in love

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

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Cbr13bingo Old Series Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009) is the first book in a trilogy that centers around Elizabeth Bennet and the zombie infestation of England. The second book, Dawn of the Dreadfuls, is a prequel, and the third book, Dreadfully Ever After is a sequel. The second two books in the series were written by Steve Hockensmith. Those familiar with Jane Austen’s novels will recognize expressions such as “violence of affection” and “violence of love” as they crop up frequently in her writing. […]

Why does God let His children suffer?

Revival Season by Monica West

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CBR 13 BINGO: Rep (explanation in review) This book came to me because author Ann Patchett recommended it on Goodreads. Not sure that it was something that I would have picked up otherwise based on the title, cover and subject matter, but I’m glad I did. The Horton family’s entire life is subsumed by the father’s ministry and thriving congregation in Texas. Known for his power to heal, Reverend Horton leaves his church and takes his family on the road every summer for revival season. […]

There are different kinds of darkness.

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

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CBR BINGO: Cityscape square (bottom left corner) Slammed it shut and immediately requested the third book in this series from the library. May have murmured “so, so, good” under my breath first. I’d really just like to leave it there, but we have that pesky 250 word obligation so, here goes. This is the second book in the Court of Thorns and Roses series, so if you haven’t read that yet, by all means DO. This will get a smidge spoiler-y from this point on. In order to break a […]

Your senses are your greatest enemies; they will be waiting to betray you.

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

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CBR 13 BINGO: Flora square (along top and right edge of cover) Somehow I missed this one when it was favorably (and unfavorably) reviewed a while back, but I follow some Instagram accounts that were raving about this series so I got curious. After a war between human mortals and faeries, the world is split. A wall is erected and humans are pushed behind it into the southlands. Generations of stories about powerful fae creatures that enslave, murder, and eat humans are handed down. Occasionally even stories […]

For someone who said back in February they didn’t like sci-fi, I sure as hell am reading an awful lot of sci-fi

The Original by Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal

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I have to confess I picked this book to read just because I was having a hard time finding a book with a cityscape on the cover. And this cityscape might be a little stylized, but there’s a reason for that and I’ll get into it, but let’s take a moment to celebrate Book Bingo incentivizing me to read. Hooray. The Original is a novella that was produced specifically to be launched as an audiobook, and I honestly love that concept. While I don’t think […]

Oscar Wilde reminds us that fairytales are not supposed to look like Disney

Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: In Aid of the Royal Theatrical Fund by Oscar Wilde

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One of the good things to come out of the pandemic was the various ways artistic organizations came together to fundraise in a time where theaters were closed. I have lost count, for example, of how many performances of the Royal Opera House Ballet I’ve watched from the comfort of my own home. I know it’s really an overall sad thing how un-secure  (I somehow don’t think insecure was the appropriate word here, even though it probably was) artists and freelancers’ living is, but the […]



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