Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Cate C. Wells can get me to read and appreciate fated mates like no other author

Ravaged Wolf by Cate C. Wells

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First off, if you are considering a place to start with Cate C. Wells, this is not the book. Ravaged Wolf is the book you read when you know the world and trust the author. I read it backwards before I could read it front to back. For want of a better way to explain: Izzy In my pack, I’m a cautionary tale, the female who made her mate wait too long and drove him into rut. After that terrible night, Trevor was exiled, and […]

Gilded Age Anastasia

The Gilded Heiress by Joanna Shupe

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Confession: I have never watched the Disney version of Anastasia. It came out when I was very busy doing career things instead of fun things, which I now realize was a mistake. I must not have known that John Cusack was voicing Dimitri the con man love interest, because criminal John Cusack is my favorite of all the John Cusacks (see The Grifters or Grosse Pointe Blank). So the Anastasia connection wasn’t what prompted me to request The Gilded Heiress. I’ve been wanting to pick up Joanna […]

Some Jesus Allegory or Another

Fruits Basket Collector's Edition, vols. 1-12 by Takaya, Natsuki

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Bingo row 4 – family Dostoevsky’s the Idiot is a novel about someone who is so kind and good that everyone assumes he’s an idiot. Prince Lev is a “modern” day Jesus, unappreciated and destroyed by the times. This review isn’t about that book, but I thought about it a lot as I read Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya. (I had previously watched its anime adaptation, so The Idiot connection was brewing and boiling when I started reading. It’s also not a unique comparison.) Tohru […]

Yeah no, Just no.

The Suicides by Antonio di Benedetto

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  cbr17bingo white Somewhere, while I was reading this, I encountered a review of this book that praised it for its ironic lightheartedness.  Say what?  Oh hell no. The author is an Argentinian who was imprisoned and tortured during the military dictatorship of the 1970s.  This book, written in 1969, a product of a time when Argentinian citizens were being disappeared off the streets and dropped out of planes (disturbingly familiar.)  The narrator, a reporter, has been assigned the task of writing about three unrelated […]

This isn’t a Dr. Faustus-Frankenstein crossover, but that’s a good thing

Chicano Frankenstein by Olivas, Daniel A

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Bingo Row 4 – Green I’ve been meaning to read Chicano Frankenstein by Daniel A Olivas for one reason. The title is Chicano Frankenstein, which I find intriguing. It’s a modern retelling of Frankenstein, making it a post modern Prometheus. (I made myself laugh). But really it doesn’t have many parallels with the inspiration because the protagonists are nice and reasonable. In a world where corpses are reanimated for labor or something, some reanimated man just lives his life as politics and human rights issues […]

Will you still love me tomorrow

Love Languages by James Albon

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You can come of age at any age. And find love in the oddest places. Even in the romantic city of Paris when you think there is nothing there for you expect more disappointing dates and alienation. Two women deal with their expat statuses, while a growing friendship that shapes their practically every move. From the point of view of Sarah, a British woman now living and working in France, we see the growth of self-awareness with an unusual but beautiful path. You can enjoy […]



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