Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

My head is saying, “Fool, forget him.” My heart is saying, “Don’t let go.”

Sleep: London Love Book 4 by Sophia Soames

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Even though my stomach was churning, I felt in some kind of control, like I could still steer this situation home, dock it gently in a place where I could walk away unscathed. The problem was, I didn’t think I wanted to walk away unscathed. I wanted to hurt and bleed and heal and scream.” ― Sophia Soames, Sleep CBR16 Bingo: Dreams We met Mabel in Taste: London Love book 2. Mark and Mabel work as a team at The Clouds Westminster Hotel in central […]

Berserk 6

Berserk 6 by Kentaro Miura

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The Casca storyline continues, and continues to suck. And the edgelord BS continues as well in the Assassin storyline. In this, Guts is asked by Griffith to assassinate Prince Julian, one of his rivals for the eye of the King of Midland. There’s collateral damage and it’s terribly sad. Really, these couple of stories are sort of shitty and don’t add much but shock value. There are other ways to grow Guts’ character and his relationship with Casca, and I’d be fine if there was […]

Berserk 5

Berserk 5 by Kentaro Miura

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The Golden Age arc continues as Guts’ infamy and value in the Band of the Hawk continues to grow. He and Casca both make their way into the upper echelons of leadership as Griffith’s lieutenants, however this is all threatened when Guts faces off against the first inhuman opponent of his life: Nosferatu Zodd. An infamous warrior in-universe, Zodd the Immortal is known for seeking out the most brutal battles possible, with little regard for anything but distraction from the drudgery of his immortality. This […]

“I know now that what’s tragic isn’t the moment. It is the memory.”

Another Brooklyn: A Novel by Jacqueline Woodson

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Cbr16bingo Disco, bingo  (1970s New York, marginalized communities) In the author’s notes at the end of this novel, Woodson writes that her inspiration came from her thoughts on “what it means to grow up a girl in this country,” particularly in 1970s Brooklyn. Those familiar with Woodson’s novels — read Brown Girl Dreaming and Red at the Bone, both excellent — know that she has an incredible talent for writing about the experiences of Black girls in specific points in US history such as the […]

“If you are going to tell a lie, tell a good one”

Transcription by Kate Atkinson

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Juliet is in her early twenties when World War II starts, and like so many girls and women her age she finds herself working for MI5. This sounds more exciting than it is; mostly, Juliet types things. One day she is ordered to join a mission in a small flat in London, where an agent named Godfrey Tobey ingratiates himself with Nazi sympathisers.  I haven’t read the blurb at the back but I imagine it continues with something about Juliet not knowing what she’s getting […]

We Didn’t Start the Fire; She Did, Actually.

Demon Daughter by Lois McMaster Bujold

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So it turned out I’ve been asleep for a bit, because I hadn’t realized that Lois McMaster Bujold had released some more Penric and Desdemona novellas. So some catching up was in order. And a good thing too, because the next review I had previously planned is a bit of a doozy, and it may take me a little while to complete Demon Daughter is the kind of title that made me think that this particular Penric and Desdemona novella was going to be very […]



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