Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Cats, Ninja and a turnip called Jack

Kitten Ninja  by Colleen AF Venable

Lila and the Jack-O'-Lantern: Halloween Comes to America by Nancy Churnin

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I like Halloween, kittens, and graphic novels. I found two different books that fit all categories, but in stages; neither has all the things I like.  I read both via on line and both are future publications, though the second is due late September 2024 so soon. Kitten Ninja by Colleen AF Venable and Marcie Colleen is a graphic novel I read online. It is due in late February 2024, but will be worth the wait. It is a cute, younger aimed book for those who […]

Motor City Murder

Mr. Paradise by Elmore Leonard

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Fashion model Kelly Barr is in a tough spot. Under duress, she agreed to help her roommate and fellow model Chloe Robinette “entertain” Chloe’s 84-year-old boyfriend, a wealthy lawyer named Tony Paradiso. It’s pure luck that she’s out of the room when two men break in and shoot both Mr. Paradise and Chloe dead. But that luck doesn’t last long, as Paradiso’s ex-con fixer wants her help getting hold of some valuable items the old man left behind in a safety deposit box in Chloe’s […]

I want to see this Bond movie

Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy: An original Jane Bond Parody by Mabel Maney

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Cbr15bingo sex This book was published in 2001 and somehow I only just heard about it a few weeks ago. It is a hoot, with the kind of silly-named characters and wacky mix-ups that you might find in a Jeeves and Wooster novel. American writer Mabel Maney gives us the story of Jane Bond, the lesbian sister of James, who drinks and sleeps around like her brother but who lives in a run-down bedsit and works at a bookstore in 1965 London. Jane is dealing […]

Do with their death bury their parents’ strife

Brickmakers by Selva Almada

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Chins slightly raised. Eyes locking on eyes. The rest hardly matters: an afternoon of scalding sun, a cloudy night, the middle of a dance hall, the soccer field in the pink evening light, some street in the center of town. Meanwhile, the music is always the same: the panting, the sound of fists, the cracking of knuckles before they land the first blow, the hiss of saliva, the occasional groan when a jab lands right in the liver, and the guys egging them on, always […]

This is not a children’s book

Becky: The Throat Goat (Rejected Children's Books) by Brad Gosse

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Yes, my friends there is a book called  Becky: The Throat Goat (Rejected Children’s Books). Brad Gosse is the author. But something tells me that might not be their real name. Or even one person. After all, would you admit to writing a book about a goat named Becky who has a long throat and can take anything large or small? Who is a tease at parties and oh boy, I leave the rest up to you. And Brad Gosse has other things (of course they […]

One of My Top Books of the Year

The Quest for Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy (edited by Hugo Vickers)

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CBR15Bingo — History I love, love, loved this book. This is a highlight of my reading year so far and a real keeper for my library of royal books. I do wonder what it is about royalty that tends to attract gay men — glamour? — because I felt very in sympathy with Pope-Hennessy’s fascination with royalty as a separate species of human beings throughout (I related very much to him being described as unremittingly homosexual in the introduction). As someone with a not insubstantial […]



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