Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Re-Writes Your Story?

Long Live Evil: Time of Iron Book One by Sarah Rees Brennan

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Cbr17bingo Border — the main character literally crosses a border between reality and fiction, and straddles the border between good and evil; the kingdom in the story is bordered by the Dread Ravine, which is full of the undead. This book is one of the most bonkers, crazy, fun stories I’ve read in a long time, and I thank Dome’loki for the review that turned me on to it. I think we’re all familiar with time travel stories, where a character is sent back in […]

Funny and Well-Written, but Left Me Wanting

The Usual Desire to Kill by Camilla Barnes

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cbr17bingo – red This is an interesting book to review because it accomplished what it set out to do, and accomplished it very well; I’m just not sure I liked what it set out to do. It provides a snapshot of a family over the course of about 10 months. While much of it is from the first person perspective of daughter Miranda, who visits her parents monthly, there are sections that are brief scenes as though from a play, a couple of third person […]

Shepherds Watch over Their Flocks. And Angels Watch over Shepherds

The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison

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I’m a bit boggled—how did I miss one of Katherine Addison’s books? Addison is the author of the magnificent The Goblin Emperor and the follow up trilogy, The Cemeteries of Amalo*. Usually her books are an automatic pre-order for me. But somehow, I missed that she had also written an alt-universe take on Sherlock Holmes as well.  The book comes with the following tagline: “This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not […]

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: Time Traveller’s Wife from Wish.com?

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

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I was messaging with a friend and we were trading book recommendations a few weeks ago. I recommended she read Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, and she recommended V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. She has been really enjoying listening to audiobooks while walking, but I am still a paper person and was able to get a very quick turnaround on my library reserve. I otherwise went in cold – my friend’s recommendation is that it was a really compelling story with a […]

Table for Two by Amor Towles

Table for Two by Amor Towles

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So I don’t want to get into every story in this book because I don’t want to spoil. But wow. This book was really really good. Even though I thought the part two that switched to Los Angeles lost some of its charm, I still thought this was a 5 star read and really enjoyed it. Instead of giving a blow by blow of each story, I am just going to focus on my favs: “The Line”-This story follows Pushkin and his wife Irina and […]

I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. See, that’s where I belong, that’s home.

An Introvert’s Guide to Life and Love by Lauren Appelbaum

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CBR Bingo: ‘I’ I received this as an ARC from NetGalley, this hasn’t affected the contents of my review. I pretty much only decided to read An Introvert’s Guide to Life and Love by Lauren Appelbaum because it starts with an ‘I’ and I’ve really been struggling to find anything that fits that square for bingo. I didn’t know anything about the book, and I’d never heard of the author before. Mallory Rosen is a self-described “Gollum”—she works from home at her Seattle tech job, has […]



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