Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Chigozie Obioma, you broke my heart

The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma

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CBR15 BINGO: Africa, because the author was born in Nigeria, and the story takes place in Nigeria Double BINGO! Horizontal: Dwelling, Africa, Relation”ship”, Violence, On the Air Diagonal: South America, Africa, North America, Asia & Oceania, Europe With 20 pages left to read in Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen, I suddenly felt a dread about finishing. In spite of tragedy striking at barely the half-way mark of the novel, I still clung to the hope that things could turn out well; yet, all along, I knew […]

“It’s really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what it’s got. Give a man the world and he’s still pining for the moon.”

Penmarric by Susan Howatch

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CBR15 Bingo – Relation”ships”: The many overlapping relationships between the Castallacks and Roslyns, both familial and romantic, drive much of the action of the book forward. When Mark Castallack takes gloomy Penmarric as his home and Janna Roslyn as his wife, he sets a massive family drama into motion. This is one of those sprawling family sagas in which there are a lot of beautiful, dramatic, maladjusted people. The fun of Penmarric though is that it’s also a transposition of the story of Henry II, Eleanor […]

“There is no special protection when you cross that invisible line from your ordinary life to that parallel world where tragedies happen. It happens just like this. You don’t become someone else. You’re still exactly the same. Everything around you still smells and looks and feels exactly the same.”

Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty

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CBR Bingo – Oceania Australian literary phenomenon Liane Moriarty has done it again!! Or I guess, she did it again a while back because this isn’t her newest book, but it’s gripped me just like all the rest. Hold my calls. Feed my dog. I’m stuck in a book. Moriarty has a slick formula that relies on foreshadowing to hook you from the beginning. Much like in “Big Little Lies” we know at the start of the book that something awful happened to tear these […]

A little disappointing

Codename Charming by Lucy Parker

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I have read all of Lucy Parker’s books, and she’s been a favorite romance author of mine for years now. I always look forward to when another book of hers is published. So, when I saw Codename Charming (2023) was available and not at my library, I bought it immediately. Then I saved it for my backpacking trip, so I’d have something fun and distracting to read. Unfortunately, I was a little disappointed in this one. Part of the problem was that most of the characters in […]

Sex, love, and self-forgiveness

Omega Island: Empty Heat by Wendy Rathbone

Waiting for the Flood by Alexis Hall

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“I really do hate all of this,” I confessed. “That I even have to be here. It’s a great retreat. But I hate the reasons why I’m here. I hate my body. All of it. It’s what I hide behind. It’s not the reality of me. I want to look good to the outside world, like nothing’s wrong. Like I’m worthy.” ― Wendy Rathbone, Omega Island: Empty Heat Callum is an omega who has tried everything: therapy, pills, exercise, meditation, and time. But, when the […]

Getting your fright on

 Frights from Feral  V02 Last Exit to Feral by Mark Fearing

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This  time around, the style is vamped with the chapters having a postcard (mostly, of course, of the creepy variety or at least sinister seeming) starting things off. And this is not the only thing that is different with Frights from Feral  V02 Last Exit to Feral by Mark Fearing.   This time we follow Freya and her friend Monica (the person who runs into Frey’s office (the basement of an old house no longer standing) at the end of book one, as they learn an important clue to the […]



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