Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“The world was filling with ghosts. We were a haunted country in a haunted world.”

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

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I heard good things, great things even, about Louise Erdrich from a few book pals and ya know she also has won a Pulitzer (though not for this book) so I knew I wanted to check her out. I came upon a discounted copy of this book at my local bookstore and Bob’s your uncle I bought the book. Aside: I typed that previous sentence and immediately thought, “Where does the idiom “Bob’s your uncle” even come from?!” A Google search says it’s unclear in […]

A Story About How Great Books Are

The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin

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I found this in one of the many Free Little Library boxes in my neighborhood. Admittedly I chose it for it’s title. This story starts with Grace Bennett and her friend, Vivienne (Viv), two small town country girls arriving in London full of youth an energy and ready to live it up. They are 23. It is 1939. A series of bad family circumstances force them to leave their village.  Both women move into the house of Mrs. Weatherford, Grace’s mother’s long-time friend, and her […]

Read series in order

Dragon Master V04 Power of the Fire Dragon by Tracey West

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Read the Dragon Master series in order. This review is about book four, Power of the Fire Dragon by Tracey West. As an adult I could pick things up in the story arc that allowed me to understand what was going on, as we are starting in the middle of the characters stories. However, I am not sure if the age six to nine age range would be able to. I probably would have enjoyed it more having read book one, as there are things […]

Histories

Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors by Peter Ackroyd

A Coffin for King Charles: The Trial and Execution of Charles I by C.V. Wedgwood

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Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors “When the first sarsen stone was raised in the circle of Stonehenge, the land we call England was already very ancient.” This history of England covers the first 12,000 years of so of English history, ending specifically the reign of Henry Tudor, Henry VII, who took over the throne with possibly sketchy evidence after defeating Richard III. This more or less signified the end of the War of the Roses, but there were […]

The Firm But With Ladies

Please Join Us by Catherine McKenzie

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I was kind of young when The Firm came out with Tom Cruise as the main character but I vaguely remember a secret organization of high powered men pulling strings and using their influence to get what they wanted and uses blackmail as a tactic when members aren’t behaving in the ways they should.  Please Join Us has pretty much the exact same plot. When our main character Nicole finds out that she hasn’t had enough billable hours and that her firm seems to be moving […]

“There Is Never Only One, Of Anyone”

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

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Cat’s Eye is a story about friendship, family, memory, and, especially, trauma. It follows the life of Elaine from childhood through about age 50. Like The Blind Assassin, also by Margaret Atwood, this novel alternates between past and present and is primarily set in the past. Most of the novel occurs when Elaine is about age 8-10. Elaine and her parents and older brother had a nomadic lifestyle during Elaine’s early childhood. Her father is an entomologist who travels around looking at bugs. When Elaine […]



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