Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Don’t say a word

Out of the Blue by Barefoot Books and Alison Jay

Homecoming: A Story of War, Nature, and Hope by Margaryta Winkler

Alone One Night by Andrea Antinori

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What is going on with wordless picture books?  I read Out of the Blue by Barefoot Books and Alison Jay (due March 2027) via an online reader and it’s a wordless board book. And then I read Margaryta Winkler’s (due February 2027) book and I was okay, this book,  Homecoming: A Story of War, Nature, and Hope has no words to read, but still there are some (wildly amazing and far out) images to read and I am really getting into those. But then I […]

I don’t know if finding the perfect man is worth all of this

Scarlett's Hero by Gia Cobie

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I enjoy camping and backpacking by myself, and I have found that romance novels are some of the best books to read when I’m alone in the dark wilderness. They are generally easy to read, entertaining, and usually do not creep me out. So, when I had a trip coming up, I gathered a couple of romance novels for my easy reading entertainment. I first saw Scarlett’s Hero (2024) by Gia Cobie on an Instagram advertisement, and even though I was a little skeptical, I decided […]

Y’all… a delightful break from the stress of life

I Accidentally Joined a Wolf Shifter Group Chat by Roxie Ray & Lindsey Devin

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Where do I start with this delightful little bon bon of a book? Oh, wait. The freaking title. Obviously. Not gonna lie, after a previous positive experience with a book by Roxie Ray, when I saw I Accidently Joined a Wolf Shifter Group Chat pop up on the new Kindle+ membership, I immediately signed into my Kindle to borrow it. Because why wouldn’t you want to know *that* whole story??? Sloane, our female main character, has been lonely on a deep level for a very […]

Maybe more of a vibes read. Plus crows are cool

The Witches of Cambridge by Alice Hoffman

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Bingo Square: Craft (witchcraft) I wasn’t excited when my book club picked this one but I figured, maybe it was time for me to give Alice Hoffman another try. I think the book I had read was The Third Angel and it just didn’t work for me. I would like to think I gave this novel a fair shot but Hoffman just isn’t for me. It’s frustrating because there are moments in this book that are absolutely gorgeous and the premise sounds fascinating. Unfortunately, it […]

Real Life Is No Neat Story

In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World by Livia Manera Sambuy

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When Italian journalist Livia Manera Sambuy came across a portrait of the little-known Indian princess of Amrit Kaur on a trip to Mumbai, she was intrigued by the assertion that she had died in a concentration camp after being arrested by the Gestapo for selling her jewels to help Jews flee the Nazis. This is more of a travelogue or an adventure than a straightforward biography. Though the author tracks down every lead and pursues every avenue, the truth is that Amrit Kaur’s life was […]

The Logistical Distribution of Luck

Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle

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CBR18 Bingo: Left – Vera needs to rebuild her life after being left in the aftermath of a global catastrophe which killed her mom and destroyed her relationship with her fiancee. After the devastation of the Low Probability Event, a worldwide day of absurdly bad luck, everything that statistics professor Vera believed has been turned on its head. When she gets roped into investigating a Las Vegas casino with unnaturally good luck, she thinks she might finally get answers – if she can survive the […]



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