Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Never mind Ms O’Leary’s Cow

The Fifth Floor by Micheal Harvey

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cbrbingo   cbrbingo17 red cbrbingo17 Red Michael Kelly, ex-cop and private investigator, is looking for a little information, and sources don’t get better than Fred Jacobs of the tribune.  Let’s meet Fred. Fred was six feet two and weighed slightly less than your average house cat.  He was chasing sixty with . . . a head of black hair the color and consistency of shoe leather. . . .  Fred was a life-long bachelor.  Suffice it to say, he didn’t get a lot of chicks.  […]

A spy thriller set in a fascinating post-climate-change-collapsed world

Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North

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CBR Bingo: ‘N’ I really enjoyed Claire North’s The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August when I read it last year, but, for whatever reason, I didn’t realize that she’d also written other books. I’ve been somewhat struggling to find appropriate books to review for the CBR Bingo “letter” squares, so when I saw Notes from the Burning Age on a recent trip to my local used bookstore, it both fit the ‘N’ square and looked intriguing. Set in a future where the effects of climate […]

Advanced Studies in Bird Criticism.

A Dumb Bird's Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever by Matt Kracht

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It’s hard to articulate. I love birds, they are my favorite… but I also hate birds. It’s complicated. I delight in their behavior, but so many of them are also arseholes. Take the ducks we used to keep—they fowled up the dam. The turkeys? Bloody stupid creatures. The geese? Vicious bastards*. My Auntie’s beloved silky bantam rooster, Kevin? Busted internal chronometer; would never shut up. I have been mocked by kookaburras, experienced a gleek of emu attacks, a car stripping by corellas and a blood […]

A little luxurious wish fulfillment

The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

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CBR17Bingo: Green (for the green cover) By now I’ve read a number of books by Christina Lauren*, and they’ve been a little hit or miss for me. But it hasn’t stopped me from continuing to read their novels–always hoping for the best. The Paradise Problem (2024) wasn’t my absolute favorite book from them, but it’s up there and I had a good time. When Anna Green was pre-med in college, she was desperate for housing. A friend of hers hooked her up with Liam “West” […]

I feel like disposing of a body is a boyfriend-girlfriend activity and not something you do with a casual hookup.

Lights Out by Navessa Allen

Caught Up by Navessa Allen

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I haven’t had a whole lot of luck with viral booktok books, but several people mentioned enjoying the audiobook of Navessa Allan’s Lights Out. Hooked up with my new library card, I put holds on Lights Out and it’s sequel, Caught Up. The library gods were with me, and I got them both quickly. I’m not a dark romance reader. I’ve read a few that I really liked and noped out of a whole bunch that didn’t do it for me for whatever reason. I […]

The screenwriters writing the rom-com are a rom-com

The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

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CBR17Bingo: Red (for the red in the cover) I can’t remember now how I found The Rom-Commers (2024) by Katherine Center, but I was probably just browsing my library’s catalog looking for an available Audiobook to listen to on my commute. This was an occasionally fun “rom-com” that played on some of the tropes of the genre for its own purposes. However, this wasn’t one of my favorites because the relationship wasn’t very memorable. Emma Wheeler is a talented writer who lives in the Northwest and is […]



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