Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

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Back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth and I was a young child (so mid 1990’s), my parents and I went on vacation to Las Vegas. We stayed in the MGM Grand, where one night/early morning (it was like 3 A.M.) I was woken up by my mother hysterically laughing. When I asked her what was so funny, she told me she was reading one of the funniest books she ever read, Good Omens. Curious, I picked it up the next day, read a page and […]

Woof Hall

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

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Let’s get this out of the way, I did not finish Wolf Hall. Not for lack of trying, I promise. But I got 75% of the way through, and was trying to force my way to the end before it was due at the library, when i just realized that I wasn’t enjoying or even absorbing anything I was reading, so what was the point? Anyway, Wolf Hall is about Thomas Cromwell, a somewhat mysterious figure from English history. He rose from humble beginnings to […]

“I love that the vagueness of “we lost our receptionist” implies he quit, died, or wandered into the woods where no one could find him.”

What Happens in Amsterdam by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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A first rate second chance romance. Plot: Dani is a late bloomer. Dealing with severe health issues as a kid has left her parents overprotective and her world was narrowed to meeting her physical needs, but others’ emotional needs. Still, after a bad breakup and a job loss, she finds herself taking on an opportunity to work for a start up in Amsterdam, an ocean away from her loving but controlling parents. Unfortunately, her cloistered childhood has left her without some necessary real world skills, […]

Well, this was a bait and switch

The Summer We Ran by Audrey Ingram

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So … this was a book club choice and not something I normally would have stumbled on myself but when we were plotting out our next few months of reads, we were very much thinking summer reads, romance etc and someone had heard about this one and mentioned that it involved political opponents. Then, after we’d made the decision, I read the synopsis (secret shared past), I was like, “oh, this sounds a bit more women’s fiction than romance but could be interesting.” And it […]

When the skeptic becomes borderline unlikable

I’ll Be Waiting by Kelley Armstrong

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Bingo Square: Border (with seances and Ouija boards, it’s the boundaries/borders between life and the afterlife/supernatural) This one was a bit of a miss for me for Kelley Armstrong – I really loved her Women of the Otherworld series, and in general, her other novels, whether supernatural or romance, tend to work for me. This specific novel is one of the supernatural/paranormal ones – the main character and narrator is Nic, a new widow after her husband Anton died in a car crash less than […]

Thanks, Obama

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

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CBR Bingo: TBR I’ve owned The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson for at least a few years. I think I bought it because the front cover said, “One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Year” and the premise sounded interesting. Somewhat disappointingly, I ended up DNFing this one at about the 30% mark, but I got enough of an impression of it to want to write a review. In the near future (which might now technically be the past, since I took […]



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