Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

my first finished bingo card!

The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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CBR Bingo: What I have left is season, I can’t think of a way to shoehorn this into that so we’re just calling this one my Free square–which means, yes, a completed bingo card!!! Since bingo came out AND I decided I needed to get back on this reading horse, I’ve written every review within 24 hours (12, really) of finishing a book AND committed to finishing another two off my back log (on average–one time I did four and then only wrote two the […]

a gifted book of low-class hijinks

Perfume & Pain by Anna Dorn

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CBR Bingo: Joker, in that way about how the court jester can stand and laugh at everyone? I just feel like the book has that vibe, where everything is just circus antics and Astrid is watching her life collapse around her. A gift from my lovely friend Eunice, a reminder that life can toss you kindred spirits in many interesting ways (I grumpily assumed she was responsible for my drain backing up, got her number from her lease manager, stomped up to complain and promptly […]

A Weird Book and Murakami. So, Two Weird Books, I Guess

The Employees by Olga Ravn

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

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CBR18 BINGO: Craft for The Employees (unconventional/fragmented/experimental approach) and Summer for The City and Its Uncertain Walls The Employees by Olga Ravn So, I read this. Uh . . . And then I did some of this: It’s hard to know what to make of this. It’s confusing, although I do think I understood the general gist of it. To be honest, though, for a while I only knew what was happening because the book blurb tells you, and it felt like the book blurb made some of the connections […]

“The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.”

Demon Copperhead: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

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Cbr18bingo Repair: novel deals with drug addiction and rehab, broken individuals and a broken community I had a hard time choosing which bingo square to use for this one, so many could apply. Left — because so many characters and their community have been left behind. Refuge — characters take refuge in drug use to deal with physical and other pains. Or —main character ultimately has to make a major either/or decision about his life. Demon Copperhead is Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize winning re-imagination of Dickens’ […]

Holiday Roundup

A Short Stay in Hell by Stephen L. Peck

System Collapse (Murderbot #7) by Martha Wells

Tough Guy (Game Changers #4) by Rachel Reid

Flesh by David Szalay

The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

Last One Out by Jane Harper

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Here’s what I read while I was camping in France. It was very hot. I may have melted a few times. It was way too hot for complicated stuff, so for unrelated reasons: here’s a picture of a hotel that’s for sale in the charming, medieval town of Brancion in the Bourgogne for anyone contemplating a career change. Say hi to the former caretaker’s wife; she was very friendly.  Anyway, here’s what I read.  A Short Stay in Hell (Stephen L. Peck) **** A man, […]

I Would Not Survive in 1855…And I Wouldn’t Want To

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

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We meet bright, but cold Natalie Heller as she goes off to Harvard. Instead of experiencing the world, making friends and learning, the experience shows her that what she knows is “right” and that the world is wicked. She meets a man, a man who’s family is wealthy and heavily connected to politics and she sees in him someone she can mold and make the perfect husband. They quickly marry and things immediately go downhill. Natalie loathes her husband. He has no ambition, he wants […]



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