Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Nova Scotia, the seabound coast

Every Little Thing She Does is Magic by Michelle Hebert

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Let me start by saying a couple of things about this book: 1) I am from Nova Scotia, the province in which this book is set, although I am from a different area in which the book is mainly set. 2) I don’t read a lot of stories set in Nova Scotia (most of the time it happens by accident; I legitimately thought one book I picked up started in Halifax, West Yorkshire, only to be like, “Oh snap, it is Halifax, Nova Scotia, where […]

July-August 2024 Leftovers

Heartsick by Chelsea Cain

Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney

Confucius for Christians: What and Ancient Chinese Worldview Can Teach Us about Life in Christ by Greg A. Ten Elshof

Lucky At Cards by Lawrence Block

A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block

Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner

Doing the Devil's Work by Bill Loehfelm

The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Leta McCullough Seletzky

The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter

Burning Angel by James Lee Burke

The Queen City Detective Agency by Snowden Wright

Poetic Justice by Andrea J. Johnson

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Because I’ve been posting most of my reviews due to Bingo, I haven’t kept up with the leftover ones until now. Hope everyone had  a good summer. It’s my least favorite time of year but this one wasn’t so bad. Heartsick***: I took this book too seriously when I tried to read it the first time. I relaxed and enjoyed the ride the second. Goofy fun, nothing more. Brief Answers to the Big Questions****: I do enjoy listening to Hawking’s desire to push the boundaries […]

Moody Detective Fiction in the North Country

The Woman Who Married a Bear by John Straley

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What happens when you take the elements of a pulp fiction crime novel but move it up to the 80s and set it in Alaska? You get Cecil Younger, the alcoholic private investigator main character of The Woman Who Married a Bear. We meet Cecil the morning after a bender, as he battles a hangover while preparing to meet a potential new client. The client, an older Tlingit woman, asks Cecil to find out who killed her son, Louis Victor. Only problem is, Victor’s killer […]

The Ministry of Time: the strangest fan fiction

The Ministry of Time by Kaliene Bradley

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mood music: running up that hill – kate bush This was the strangest little novel I have read this year. But, it was one of the most original plotlines I have read in a long time. I had to do real googling to understand the background details that inspired this story because one of the characters is based on a real historical figure.  Our unnamed protagonist, a British-Cambodian civil servant in London, is recently promoted to Bridge for a new pilot program in a new […]

The Map to the Afterlife

49 Days by Agnes Lee

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Read the description of 49 Days by Agnes Lee as that tells the story. My review is one that focuses on the fact that this is an emotional, complex and beautifully done book. I am focusing on the pieces that really spoke to me. And how it is relatable in many ways.  I like the realism of the grief processes. It is strong and powerful, and the idea of “yes, I must grieve, but I also must keep on living” is an interesting twist. Usually […]

Tossed a curveball

Curveball  by Pablo Cartaya

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We know the story of Curveball it is a  “It is more fun to play the game than to be played by the game.” But Pablo Cartaya has a few curveballs tossed in as well. We follow a young girl who loves competition and sports, especially baseball. Or does she? Or is her mother trying to live vicariously through her, pushing her to be the best as she couldn’t be? And to keep the family tradition alive so that she can have the opportunities her mother […]



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