Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Lust and love

The Song of Aglaia by Anne Simon

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Possibly the most unsettling fairy tale you'll read all year, The Song of Aglaia is as feminist as it is iconoclastic. Simon's scritch-scratch textures and kids'-book-gone-awry character designs provide a perfect vehicle for her exploration of the ways lust and -- more upsettingly -- love destroy … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:153 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Romance, Speculative Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , ·

Good modern whodunnit

Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths

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Continued my read of all the works of Elly Griffiths with Bleeding Heart Yard.  This book is set in London with three focal characters, DI Harbinder Kaur, DS Cassie Fitzherbert and Anna Vance.  Harbinder is investigating the murder of an MP which occurred at a school reunion; both Cassie and Anna … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

A thriller based in gentrification

When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

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When I was reading through the categories for Read Harder 2023 challenge, I was stymied by number 23: Read a social horror, mystery, or thriller novel. I had no idea what a social horror novel was. I had never heard of this genre. I did a quick search for "social horror" and found a few lists. … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:8 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Suspense · Tags: , , , , ·

Intriguing way to write a fictionalized biography

Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens

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I listened to this as an audiobook and found it simultaneoulsy sad and uplifting.  In Briefly, A Delicious Life, Nell Stevens sets up a ghost story around the winter that George Sand, Chopin and George's children and maid spent in an abandoned monastery in Majorca.  In 1838, Sand and company … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Pinball’s lineage

Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball by Jon Chad

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  CBR15Passport Genre  The history of pinball and video games is just the start of Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball by Jon Chad. We get a little history of the country, and we get to see how things have not really changed on one hand (pinball/video games will corrupt our … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:152 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Sports, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , , , , ·

The mantle of Moth Keeper

The Moth Keeper by K O' Neill

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CBR15Passport Other Country K O’Neill’s graphic novel The Moth Keeper first and foremost has gorgeous illustrations as you usually find in their works.  And it has a terribly sweet story. However, due to lack of text, sometimes things are not as "fleshed out" as they could be, making much open to … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:151 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Mystery, Poetry, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , ·


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