Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I like the way you look at me

Snailed It! by Sarah T. Dubbs

Perfect Match by Eliza McClane

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He was like a cartoon with spirals for eyes in the limo, the tip of his tongue curled up to graze his teeth as he watched me. Sarah T. Dubbs and Eliza McLane are the same person. I highly recommend books written under both names. The Eliza McLane novellas are high heat and centered around holidays. The Valentine’s Day novella, Perfect Match, is my favorite of the three. Snailed It is a companion to Birding With Benefits (which I haven’t reviewed, but really enjoyed), and […]

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

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Format in which I consumed this book: audiobook Did I like it/love it/hate it? Loved it What’s it about? About two-thirds of the book is about the planning, building, and final results of the Chicago World’s Fair in the 1890s and one-third is about the serial killer H. H. Holmes. It’s a fascinating examination of the World’s Fair, from why Chicago was chosen as the location to the struggles in getting people to attend once it was finished. It is also an examination of how […]

The Compound by Aisling Rawle

The Compound by Aisling Rawle

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Format in which I consumed this book: hardcover Did I like it/love it/hate it? Liked it What’s it about? Well, the procrastination I feared would rear its ugly head has done so. I am writing this weeks after I’ve read the book and I already returned it to the library, so I can’t refresh my memory. Let’s hope I can do this book justice, because I did really like it. The story is told by Lily, a woman in her 20s who has a fairly […]

The Devil’s Attempt at Playing Guardian Angel

The Devil Three Times by Rickey Fayne

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I picked this one up because I thought the premise of the Devil interacting with a woman and all her descendants was an interesting way to frame an intergenerational family story. While this is follows eight generations, it’s also more a story told in vignettes. It doesn’t necessarily wrap up one person’s story and then move on to the next. Instead each member of the family has a one chapter focused on them and within that chapter, the reader might get foreshadowing about another character’s […]

Sign of the Unicorn

Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny

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My original copies of The Chronicles of Amber were in two volumes, 2 and then 3 books each. I read the first volume multiple times, in part because I like that early amnesia story, Corwin coming into his own, and then especially the heroism in Shadow Avalon across The Guns of Avalon. I read and enjoyed the second volume, but it was a lot thicker, harder to follow, and more political (keep in mind Zelazny’s dirty court politics directly influenced George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice […]

US history in one family of women

The Seven Daughters of Dupree by Nikesha Elise Williams

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I wanted to like this novel more than I did. I had the opportunity to attend an author talk before I read this and I really appreciated getting the author’s perspective on the story she told, how she structured it and other choices that she made. So that did help me appreciate some parts but in other ways, I wonder if reading it before the event might have been better. This isn’t really the kind of novel you spoil, especially when the blurb shares small […]



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