Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Twelve months and Cornbread, the turkey friend of November

Meet May  by April Martin

Meet August by April Martin

Meet December by April Martin

Meet July by April Martin

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The Calendar Kids Meet January  Meet February Meet March  Meet April  Meet May  Meet June  Meet July Meet August:  Meet September  Meet October  Meet November Meet December When I first started to write a review for the The Calendar Kids series, I hadn’t read Meet November. (One would think finding 12 books by April Martin would be easy, but nope!) But right before I posted this review I read November. I think Cornbread is my favorite named friend, but I still lean towards that February […]

Matti was so likeable. You could cut him in half like fresh bread and he’d be warm all the way through.

Swordcrossed by Freya Marske

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“Matti,” said Luca, breathless, “if there’s a man alive who would not be responding like this, who would not be going insane looking at you, with you doing that, then he’s either tragically committed to women or so lacking in taste that there’s no helping him at all. ― Freya Marske, Swordcrossed Luca balanced the words in his mouth, enjoying the anticipation. He looked Matti in the eye and said, with the pure heat of honesty: “I’m fairly certain I want you to wreck me. […]

There really are a surprising number of murders for these young people to solve

The Fatal Unpleasantness at Netherfield by Claudia Gray

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Thank you to NetGalley and Vintage for this ARC. This book is on sale now. Jonathan Darcy is getting tired of his parents nervously hovering around him and keeping him from doing anything more strenuous than sitting in front of a fire, reading. So when a letter arrives from his aunt Jane at Netherfield, who is feeling rather inundated with Bingley’s sisters and their spouses, and his mother is unable to go, he eagerly volunteers to go in her stead. He has not stopped thinking […]

Historian friends to lovers, a haunted mansion and a potentially explosive teaspoon

The Antiquarian's Object of Desire by India Holton

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Amelia Tarrant and Caleb Stirling are both history professors at Oxford with a speciality in magical antiques. They have been best friends since childhood, but any hint of affection between them could be ruinous to Amelia’s reputation and the careers of both. As a result, they have to appear to be enemies and stage elaborate public fights every so often to make sure all their colleagues believe them to be bitter rivals. One such fight, involving a volatile magical teaspoon, causes a big enough explosion […]

The Past is Obdurate

11/22/63 by Stephen King

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Stephen King’s 11/22/63 is by far the best book I’ve read by him in ages. I absolutely loved it from beginning to end–especially the end because I find King so often duffs his endings. But this one was perfect. 11/22/63 is the story of Jake Epping, who is introduced to a time travel portal by a resident, Al, who owns the local diner. Al tells Jake about traveling to the world of 1958. Every time he returns to the present time, the timeline is re-set, […]

The Joke’s On You

The Stench of Honolulu by Jack Handey

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For those who don’t know, Jack Handey is a humor writer most famous for his “Deep Thoughts” segments on Saturday Night Live, where he’d read out a short, absurd little humor piece over rolling nature footage. The segment was frequently hysterical, and a personal favorite of mine. I’ve been meaning to read Handey’s novel, The Stench of Honolulu, for a long time. I thought I knew what to expect. The narrator of the novel is a would-be adventurer invited to go on a trip to Hawaii […]



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