Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


a wilderness suspense novel with an aching heart

Small Game by Blair Braverman

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I've usually got so much to read that I don't really bother with NetGalley in an effort to get my hands on ARCs. Better that they go to people who do have time to read them, and may also actually review them. But I've been following Blair Braverman, writer and dogsledder, on Twitter for years now … [Read more]

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

Some Good, Some Not So Good

The Practice of Not Thinking: A Guide to Mindful Living by Ryunosuke Koike

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Best for: Anyone looking for a book on mindful living that isn’t primarily about meditating a few times a week. In a nutshell: Former Buddhist monk Koike shares his thoughts on ways we can stop thinking (or, I’d argue, stop overthinking, as his suggestions do require a fair bit of though) and … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: , ·

A Supposedly Fun Thing I will Never Do Again (Again x2)

A Supposedly Fun Thing I will Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

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The essays in this collection tend to be long, as there's not nearly as many here as in Consider the Lobster, especially given that this book is longer. But they spend more time. There's two very good tennis essays, one a memoir essay of playing while a tornado is brewing. There's a very long … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:179 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: ·

The only thing wrong with small towns are the people who live there.

Glass Houses by Louise Penny

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Dare I hope that I will continue enjoying the later Gamache books much more than the early ones? This series has really been touch and go for me since the beginning, but I've enjoyed most of the later ones quite a bit. Glass Houses was no exception, even with a plot that's ludicrous even by Louise … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: , , , ·

The One Where I Don’t Like What I Think I Will Like

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

Perfect Prey by Helen Fields

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The Thursday Murder Club (Richard Osman) ** Perfect Prey (Helen Fields) ***½  Somewhere, in a very British and very sedate retirement village, a group of seniors get together in the jigsaw room where they solve unsolved crimes. They’re pushing eighty, they have opinions on which type of cake … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: , , , , , , , , ·

A Prayer for the Cannonball

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

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I opened A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, read the first sentence and felt my shoulders lower and my jaw unclench. This is a difficult book to review because my response to it is a blend of intellectual and emotional that's hard to capture. It's easy to describe one or the other and harder to get … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:52 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·


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