Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

It is the Reviews of the Series. Or this is a review about different series.

Anzu and the Realm of Darkness by Mai K. Nguyen

One Cool Duck V02 The Far-out Fort by Mike Petrik

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It is the Reviews of the Series. Or this is a review about different series. Each one has its own quirks (good and bad) but all have that little something that fits the right reader. Maybe one is for you! The first book is more for ages 10 to younger 13, but adults might appreciate it as well. However, if you go younger, just know your reader as some illustrations and concepts are not for sensitive readers. And the second book is for about kindergarten […]

Unnecessary back story

Shift by Hugh Howey

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Bingo Square: Politics (senators, congressman, terrible people bringing about the end of the world) In 2049, congressman Donald Keene is recruited by Senator Paul Thurman to help build a containment system for a new nuclear waste facility. Donald has known Thurman for years, dating his daughter Anna in college. She will be on the team too, along with Donald’s friend Mick. The Democratic National Convention takes place at the site, just as nuclear bombs are detonated over the US. Those present file into the silos […]

A lovely novel taking you into the world of Old Hollywood an behind the imagined curtain of a Hollywood Starlet

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Oh, I really loved this book. I honestly didn’t know what to expect when I picked it up at Costco of all places. Although it was originally published in 2017, Jenkins Reid is having a moment because of Daisy Jones and the Six and Netflix is supposedly turning this into something. It was in my pile of reads to enjoy while I was at the beach, or in a lawn chair, and could pick up and put down leisurely. Well, I read it in one […]

Summer Road Trips: Listening to Carl Hiaasen books because he’s the only author my husband and I agree on

Bad Monkey by Carl Hiassen

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A brief introduction that you can absolutely skip, the review will follow: This summer as I criss and crossed my home province and the neighbouring one- dodging wildfires, construction, tourists, pack of elk or goats standing in the middle of the highway playing chicken with Alberta truckers, it was the not-so-sultry-but-very-sarcastic tones of a Carl Hiaasen novel that filled my car. I like Carl Hiaasen, don’t get me wrong, but at the beginning of the summer I had read three of his books in my […]

The Whole Town’s Talking

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

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Everyone knows that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but something I would do well to remind myself is not to get too excited and judge a book by its first few chapters. Forty or so pages into James McBride’s new novel, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, I was sure I was reading a future favorite, and possibly a real classic. Lamentably, the awe-inspiring magic of those early pages does not persist, as McBride’s ambitious scope leads to the plot losing momentum […]

CBR Bingo 15: On the Road

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

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This book could fit into several of Bingo categories, and sadly has been banned in some places (usual suspects). Written in 1993 and set in 2025, The Parable of the Sower is a frighteningly plausible story about a world impacted by climate change, political breakdown and economic and social inequity. The protagonist, Lauren Olamina, is a black teenager who has grown up outside of Los Angeles. Cars are a thing of the past, electricity is scarce and becoming scarcer. There is little rain to grow […]



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