Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Perry Mason without a courtroom in sight. This is a total trip.

The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito - Perry Mason #23 by Erle Stanley Gardener

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cbr square series Well, now, it’s been a minute, hasn’t it?  Man, I love this series, and this one, #23, was just plain fun.  Not a courtroom in sight, and instead of Paul Drake putting in a bit of sleuthing footwork for Perry, he gets to be bait.  A good time was had by all. Banning Clarke … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

Shakespeare in Space

The Golden Globe by John Varley

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I’ll admit up front that I’m a big John Varley fan. I only keep books on my shelf that I reread periodically, and I have TWO Varley books on prime real estate, Millennium and Persistence of Vision. When I discovered his bio-science fiction short stories, I’d never read anything like it. … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:28 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

Too Much of a Good Thing?

I, Lucifer by Peter O'Donnell

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Out of all the Modesty Blaise books, I, Lucifer is my least favorite, and I can't pin down exactly why. It might be my Victorian prudishness dealing with the adventure having three of her lovers in one story. She’s always been nonchalant about her partners, leaving them friends when she departs, but … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: , , , , ·

Give Me a Happy Ending Every TIme

Prisoner on Limnos by Lois McMaster Bujold

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This book concludes the Penric/Desdemona novella series and ends as expected but wraps everything up in a very satisfactory manner. Not only do we have the ongoing story of Penric and his unrequited love for Nikys becoming requited, but we also have him broaching an impregnable fortress to save his … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: , , , , ·

Playing Games

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is the tale of the friendship between Sam Masur, later Mazer, and Sadie Green, video game-designers, business-partners, and two-thirds of the founders of Unfair Games. It was video games that brought the unlikely pair into each other's lives to begin with. Sam is … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:39 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Well, this series took an unexpected turn

The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley

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CBR14 BINGO: Cozy, because these books qualify as cozy mysteries, what with all the murders happening in this small village, always being discovered by an 11-year-old detective When I first met Flavia de Luce in The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, I wasn't 100% sure whether I liked her. After … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , ·


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