Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“You can check-out any time you like/But you can never leave!”

Hotel California by Don Bruns, Heather Graham, Andrew Child, John Gilstrap, Reed Farrel Coleman, Amanda Flower, Jennifer Dornbush, Rick Bleiweiss

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In this anthology of eight crime stories, the reader is introduced to a quite wide cast that includes multiple hitmen and detectives, a senator, an influencer - and a whole bunch of victims. I don't read many anthologies, but I do make an exception for ones consisting of crime stories. I think … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:81 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Short Stories · Tags: , , , , , , ·

Frantically trying to catch up

The midwinter mail-order bride by Kati Wilde

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It’s been a weird year.  I foolishly thought i would have a lot of reading time in January and February and then i got Covid.  I did read, but writing was a step too far.  Then i started a grad course in Internal audit and risk management.  Which has been interesting, but my final assessment is in, … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , ·

“The mountain is there to be crossed.”

Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear

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This is third in the Maisie Dobbs series. It was my favorite so far, so I'm looking forward to continuing this series. In Pardonable Lies, Maisie is working on three separate cases: helping 14-year-old Avril Jarvis, who's been accused of murdering her stepfather, finding out more about her friend … [Read more]

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

Games Don’t Seem Fun?

Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry by Jason Schreier

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Not too long ago I reviewed gaming journalist Jason Schreier's Blood, Sweat, and Pixels - a book looking at the development of a dozen games in the 2000s and 2010s. Due to the size of the games and the graphic fidelity, hundreds of people can work YEARS on a AAA game (a major game). It's controlled … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:21 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: , , ·

“Promise and potential:” Overlooked Vocational School Students in China

Class Work: Vocational Schools and China's Urban Youth by T.E. Woronov

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Stanford University Press was having an 80% off summer sale, which was an amazing deal, so I got a bunch of books that I otherwise would never have thought to purchase since academic press prices are usually prohibitively high. Class Work is the first of the batch that I've read, and it was a good … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:55 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

I’m So Done with This Series

The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life, vol. 5 by Usata Nonohara

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I totally only read this book to finish the story; I’d kind of given up on The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life but I wanted to see how the main group of heroes would save the day as they inevitably would (and did). One of the only reasons this conclusion to the question of … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:48 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: , , , , ·


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