Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I Have No Idea Where We Are Going and I Ain’t Mad

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

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cbr16bingo dreams Well, now.  This took quite a few unexpected turns! It starts off as your bog-standard evil house with a few skeletons (cough) in its closets.  Nobody seems to want Baneberry Hall, tucked away in the remote bits of Vermont.  But a young couple, Ewan and Jess, thinks it’s a treat and the price is certainly right.  They move right in with their five year old daughter, Maggie.  They are only there twenty days before they flee in the middle of the night. Ewan […]

One need not be a chamber to be haunted

A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

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CBR Bingo: Dun Dun – This is a creepy book with a growing sense of dread. I’ve read a *lot* of T. Kingfisher’s work this year and loved pretty much all of them. Despite this, I’ve been a little hesitant to start with her more horror-focused novels, as it’s not a genre I generally read a lot of, or enjoy all that much. I think I’ve now ran out of her non-horror novels to read (at least until my copy of A Sorceress Comes to […]

By the author who has a ginger girlfriend, an even more ginger dog and an undisclosed number of cats and a lot to say in this delightful book

The Lonely Book by Meg Grehan

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I know it is odd to start a review with a negative, but I want to get it out of the way. I did not like The Lonely Book as much as Meg Grehan’s other titles. This one felt younger than the ones I have read and I was expecting something more mature. With that said, I still enjoyed this addition to their collection of prose poetry novels. Most of Grehan’s books deal with LGBTQ+ issues as well as mental health. This time we are […]

What did the banana say to the dog? (answer at end of review)

The Huge, Hysterical, Never Terrible Book of Jokes for Kids (Silly Jokes) by Carole P. Roman

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The Huge, Hysterical, Never Terrible Book of Jokes for Kids (Silly Jokes) by Carole P. Roman and Corinne Schmitt is a busy book that covers probably everything known to man, women, child, elephant, salamander, mountains and Martian about jokes, puns, riddles and humor in general. The contributors have taken three different books and combined them into one collection. This makes some of the jokes be repeated in another area. And of course, a theme can be used in more than one type. There are answer […]

My friend wrote a book and I want the sequels now, please

Kong Krøbling (Crippled) by Trine J. Cederløf

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Nowhere Book Bingo: Disability rep Disclaimer! The author is a friend of mine, but I paid for my own copy of the book and my opinions are my own. (Hope she’ll still be speaking to me after she reads this). In the fairy tale kingdom of The Blue Mountains, the king and queen try for many years, but the queen fails to have any living children. She encounters a witch who calls herself the Queen of Bees, who offers her a solution to her difficulties. […]

Do I like short books?

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Boulder by Eva Baltasar

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I find it a lot harder to explain why I liked a book than word vomiting about why it did not work for me. It becomes worse when it’s something I wouldn’t be inclined to like but something about the particular execution worked for me. So bear with me while I betray my academic roots and partake in an exercise of praise-writing. These books deserve that. On paper, Eva Baltasar’s Boulder (incredibly translated by Julia Sanches from the original Catalan) should not have worked for […]



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