Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Alas, Not As Fun As the Last One, Still Can’t Go Wrong with PM.

The Case of the Crooked Candle by Earle Stanley Gardner

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Quick question for any of you nautical types out there.  You can see from the title that a key clue involves a candle.  Said candle has been burning in an interior cabin on a small yacht, completely unattended for a period of time.  Is this a thing, even in the 1940s?  Seriously, Gardner?  Aren’t … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: , , , , , ·

Another bottle of catch-up.

When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller

Show Us Who You Are by Elle McNicoll

Dotson by Grayson Lee White

The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

Boxers by Gene Luen Yang

Little Moments of Love by Catana Chetwynd

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As per usual, I'm awful at keeping up with the review part of the Cannonball Read equation, so here's another review dump! To begin, let's discuss When You Trap a Tiger, one which caught my eye primarily because of its cover art and the Newberry Medal. Having liked my last pick from Target's … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

“Naked truths aren’t always pretty.”

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

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A book that has been very, very incorrectly filed under romance. Plot: Lily grew up in a violent household, but now she's out in the world as a young adult, trying to create a life that is her own, and as different from her youth as possible. By chance she meets a good looking doctor in training … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Correspondence Course

The Appeal by Janice Hallett

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An amateur theater group is preparing their production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons when the director and leading lady receive devastating news: their 2-year-old granddaughter has a rare and deadly form of cancer. Told by their doctor that an promising treatment is available, they launch a … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: ·

Who Knew Taking Hostages Could be Heartwarming

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

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Anxious People is the best book I've read in a long time.  It managed both to make me laugh out loud and start to cry.  Taking place on the eve of New Year's Eve in a small town in Sweden, it brings together a fairly large cast without losing site of any of them, and making their voices and stories … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Fun with Amelia Peabody

The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters

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Book 6 in the Amelia Peabody series sees the ever intrepid Amelia, husband Emerson and son Ramses dive into peril deep into the deserts of Sudan.  The book follows the family of Victorian era British Egyptologists during a dig in which they attempt to find the whereabouts of two of Emerson's friends … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·


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