Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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“She dabbed at her nose with a handkerchief, looking about as demure as an axe murderess.”

The Dorothy Parker Murder Case (Jacob Singer #1) by George Baxt

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On the day after Rudolph Valentino’s death, a showgirl’s body is found in George S. Kaufman’s hideaway, and Dorothy Parker and Alexander Woollcott enter an unfamiliar world of murder and mayhem. Helped by semi-corrupt cop Jacob Singer, the two try to get to the bottom of it all, in an affair that starts with someone modeling themselves after Jay Gatsby, and ending with a little known Chicagoan named Al Capone. I’m not 100% sure what I thought of this book. Don’t know if anyone was […]

“I’ll hear no more blasphemy from you, Prior Willem! Leave the Virgin and her hindquarters out of this!”

The Monstrous Murders: An Alewives of Colmar Mystery (#3) by Elizabeth R. Andersen

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Appel, Gritta, and Efi, the three alewives of Colmar, are enjoying the calmness of brewing after solving the deeply unsettling mystery of the severed hands (Sleight of Hand, book 2). But as to be expected in Colmar, peace is not destined to last for long; two novice monks in the care of Brother Wikerus have disappeared, and a lowly street sweeper is terrorized. All signs point to a mysterious monster that has been spotted, driving the town into a frenzy of fear and suspicion. Theories […]

“Apparently people aren’t willing to pay a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a home that doesn’t sound like it’s part of an Anglo-Saxon land grant.”

“E” is for Evidence: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (#5) by Sue Grafton

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It’s the holiday season; the one time of the year that being a twice-divorced, independent loner does not work for P.I. Kinsey Millhone. With everyone she’s reasonably close to with their own holiday plans, she needs something as a diversion to ward off the blues. She gets that (and more) with a case that places her career on the line; what started out as a simple look into an industrial arson case for California Fidelity (the insurance company Kinsey used to work for, and who […]

When it is time

Quiet Crossings by Vivi Partridge, Sal Sawler and Janaina Spada

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Quiet Crossings by Vivi Partridge (with Sal Sawler (editor) and Janaina Spada (colorist)) is, in a few words, an interesting read. The ideas of death, anxiety, depression, and living with the aftermath are poetically dealt with. The main characters are diverse, unusual and for the most part, likeable. Our main character/point of view character, Selena, has moments where you don’t necessarily like how she is reacting, but it is understandable.  We follow about a year’s worth of events. Selena is now working at an Inn, […]

And then I read volume two

Huck, Volume 2: Big Bad World by Mark Millar, Rafael Albuquerque and various

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While I wasn’t as into Huck, Volume 2: Big Bad World as I was the first one, Huck Volume 1: All-American, Huck and the Supers are an interesting group of people and their continuation story has its appeal. Creators Mark Millar (author), Rafael Albuquerque (illustrator), Dave McCaig (colorist), and Clem Robins (letterer), made a world where our hero of book one, Huck (a big, sweet, not the brightest cookie in the jar, but has a big ol’ heart kind of guy), has found himself a […]

Captain Superman

Huck Volume 1: All-American by Mark Millar and Rafael Albuquerque

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If Superman was a smidgen less Super and more Man, but still had powers and Captain America had no Captain in his name, but still had a really big heart, pumped gas for a living and was not the smartest cookie in the container, you would have Huck Volume 1: All-American by Mark Millar and illustrator Rafael Albuquerque.  The character of Huck is a bit of a clique. He is nice, sweet, good looking, not too bright but has a giving heart. He’ll find things, […]



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