Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Reviews Part 6 45 Minutes Left

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

The Body by Bill Bryson

Slow Horses by Mick Herron

Dead Lions by Mick Herron

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Book 26: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry Rough Review: 4 stars. Let’s see, where does this go on my Emily Henry ranking list? I think 3rd, after Book Lovers (one of my favourite reads this year and maybe in many years; it’s been a remarkable first third of the year for reading and The Wedding People, The Nix, and Unruly are all also some of my absolute favourites, and that’s not even mentioning the eight or so really awesome and ten or so quite enjoyable […]

An Increasingly Unhinged Collection of Stream of Consciously Annotated Reviews Part 3

Witch King by Martha Wells

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

The Searcher by Tana French

Beach Read by Emily Henry

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Book 11: Witch King by Martha Wells Rough Review: I really wanted to like this one. As yet another big fan of Murderbot, I trust Martha Wells’ character creation and storytelling abilities, and was looking forward to seeing what she could do with a fantasy world, but it was hard for me to connect to this one. Other than Bashasa, who is not a main character, I wasn’t particularly interested in anyone here. Despite the whole book being from his POV, I never felt like I got […]

I got 3 hours and 52 books. Let’s see if I can finally do this.

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

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Whelp, I apologize in advance for what I’m about to do. For 17 years I have been trying to complete a full Cannonball and I have never once succeeded. Sometimes I don’t read enough, but mostly I don’t write enough. I get caught up in knots trying to write a perfect review and then worry I’m spending too much time writing instead of reading and it becomes a whole thing because my brain is a nightmare. So this year I decided I’d just write rough […]

Crime Yarns of Varied Awesomeness

Be My Enemy by Christopher Brookmyre

Last One Out by Jane Harper

Never Flinch by Steven King

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Way back in 1996, I picked up a book by Christopher Brookmyre based on a staff recommendation in a long-since-closed book store.  I’ve never regretted it, and I’ve gone on to read and reread all his books.  This Christmas, it was Be My Enemy (or Fuck This for a Game of Soldiers). Set at the opening weekend for a teambuilding retreat in the Scottish highlands, the novel unites an eclectic group of advertising execs, PR teams, one crime reporter (familiar from earlier books), and a […]

August kfishgirl was way more functional and optimistic than December kfishgirl

A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience by Stephanie Burgis

A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence by Stephanie Burgis

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I received an ARC copy of A Honeymoon of Grave Consequences back in August. I was so young and full of optimism then. I immediately downloaded the ebook and the first book in the series (A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience) and then promptly forgot about them both. MsWas kindly reminded me about my ARC and that I was supposed to do a CBR review of the book in November. Now here I am the day before CBR 17 closes getting in my review! Last year […]

Wait. They Did NOT Just Bury Her Sitting Up.

Blessed Are the Dead by Malla Nunn

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Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper was brought up under rough circumstances in the slums of Johannesburg, South Africa.  Although mixed race, he presents as white, and managed as such to serve in the military for South Africa during WWII.  But since then, he has lost and then recovered his white papers in the turbulent years of the beginning of the apartheid period of the 1950s, due to the patronage of the Afrikaner Colonel van Niekirk, for entirely selfish reasons.  And with Cooper comes his best friend, […]



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