Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Gee, are you socially awkward?

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

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Emily Wilde, Cambridge professor, needs to travel to the small village of Hrafnsvik in Iceland to compile additional folk legends to present at the Folklorist Conference soon to be happening in Paris. This is incredibly difficult for her, as she prefers her books and the company of her dog, Shadow, to actually interacting with anyone. The situation is worsened upon the arrival of her colleague/friend/rival Wendell Bambleby, whose easy charm with the locals threatens her chance to show him up once and for all. However, […]

You can have what you want, as long as you ask for it

My Best Friend’s Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner

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My Best Friend’s Honeymoon is somehow the first book I’ve read by Meryl Wilsner. I enjoyed it a lot and now I get to go read their backlist. I listened to an advance copy narrated by Blair Baker and Emily Shaw. I thought they did a great job bringing the book to life. Elsie’s fiancé, Derek, plans and schedules the wedding that Elsie has said she’s too busy and overwhelmed to plan. When he shows Elsie the venue and lets her know they are getting […]

“Their wives … their mothers … sitting in silence and screaming into darkness”

Lost Among the Living by Simone St James

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While they write in different genres, authors like Fiona Davis, Simone St James and Sarah Beth Durst all hit a similar mark for me – novels that I know will be at minimum solid and dependable, sometimes even more, and all authors still have a bit of a back catalogue left for me. Sometimes you discover an author and immediately devour all their work. With these authors, I’m slowly working my way through but they are my fall back plans when I am not sure […]

Alcatraz: The Last Escape

Alcatraz: The Last Escape by Ken Widner, Mike Lynch

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I’ll be totally honest: originally I thought this review was going to be scathing, primarily because I thought it had the air of a cash grab. There is a definite positional slant to this book because it is written by one of the family members of the Anglin brothers, who participated in this escape attempt. In many cases, the best intentions are read from these, let’s be honest, career criminals. However, by the end I thought this was justified. The positive view of Whitey Bulger […]

More than Okay, Boomer

Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King

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Hearts in Atlantis is Stephen King’s look at the Baby Boomers. Starting in 1960 and ending at the dawn of the new millennium, the five stories collected here feature an interlocking cast of characters dealing with the drastic changes taking place in America over those tumultuous decades. But if you’re worried about yet another paean to the peace-and-love generation, a gee-whiz, Forest Gump-ian account of seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan and burning draft cards, rest assured: King has no interest in singing the praises […]

Or You Could Try Talking Sometime?

The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh: A Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery by Claudia Gray

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Claudia Gray has written a series of murder mysteries set in Jane Austen’s Regency England, populated with characters from her most well-known books. The two main characters, however are OCs; Jonathan Darcy, the son of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett (of Pride and Prejudice fame) and Juliet Tilney, daughter of Catherine Morland and Henry Tilney (of Northanger Abbey). Jonathan and Juliet keep stumbling into situations involving murders, and they are the only two truly capable of solving them. In this, the third book of the […]



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