Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“If you can see me, it’s because I’m letting you see me.”

The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian

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I loved this book. I loved the very concept of The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes when it was announced, I loved wondering what the story could be. When we get to the end of The Queer Principles of Kit Webb it isn’t a cliffhanger, but there are a lot of loose ends which still need to be tied up – … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:45 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , , , , , , ·

a collection of poisonous surfaces

Ghost Lover by Lisa Taddeo

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CBR Bingo Square: Snake I don't read a lot of short stories these days except for work, so when the description of Lisa Taddeo's Ghost Lover piqued my interest, I went ahead and put a library hold on it. I felt optimistic: I'd liked both Carmen Maria Machado's and Helen Oyeyemi's short … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: , ·

A graphic history of the philosophy of science

Heretics! The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy by Steven Nadler, Ben Nadler

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CBR14bingo star (the philosopher/scientists dealt with, among other things, astronomy) This graphic history of 17th century philosophical and scientific thought was written by Philosophy Professor (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison) Steven Nadler and drawn by his brother artist Ben Nadler. Using clever … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:31 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ·

They share a lot, astronomy and childhood. Both are voyages across huge distances.

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

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CBR14 BINGO: Minds Square (all about the mind, memories and raising a neuroatypical child) Powers is on the list of writers whose grocery lists I would read. Few can write the kind of prose this man can about the natural world. Always beautiful, unexpected, and poignant, his books are often … [Read more]

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

“Ursa Major was fictional, only the shape of a bear bounded in stars.

Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah

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CBR14BINGO: Star Square (Stars in the title, main character named after a star, all sorts of star gazing and other starry business) Joanna is a graduate student studying the nesting habits of birds at a remote cabin used by her university. A cancer survivor who underwent a double mastectomy, … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , ·

Are we not all things?

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

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CBR14 BINGO: Series (first in a duology and part of the Grishaverse series of books) I have probably already sufficiently raved about the Grishaverse books written after the initial triology, but here I go again. Nikolai was a favorite character from those books so I was excited to revisit him … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:11 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: , , , , ·


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