Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Princess Lessons for a Princess Party and thensome

Cursed Princess Club v.5 by Lamb Cat

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So there’s finally some progress on the question of Gwen’s parents and possible cursed-ness or maybe lack thereof. Jamie is still rather pointless, except to make a minor connection of interest with the Queen of the Plaid Kingdom. The Plaid Princes are sort of backseat, except for Frederick; … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:24 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: , , , , , , ·

Past and Future and Side stories

The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman

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It took me a little while to get into Dungeon Crawl Carl 5, The Butcher’s Masquerade, but once it gets going, it’s the usual action/snark/Carl-Donut-crew etc. I think part of the challenge for me, besides just general life getting in the way for a while, was that the title event really doesn’t … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:23 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: , , ·

“…the glorious Republic cannot rise unless the monarchy falls and the monarchy cannot fall unless two women bring it down.”

A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire by Emma Southon

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When I read Emma Southon’s A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum I was pleased by the way Southon’s immense understanding of the available primary and secondary sources historians have available to work from regarding Roman history impact the ways in which we can know anything at all about … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:10 · Genres: Featured, History · Tags: , , , , ·

To Be Young, Bewildered, and Black

The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy

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Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry, whose famous aphorism popped into my head more than once while I was reading The Wilderness.  Flournoy has given us a portrait of young Black women's struggle to make meaning, starting in their twenties and progressing to middle age. These women are, indeed, gifted … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:15 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction · Tags: ·

“The age of atrocity has wounded the word”

Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit by Lawrence Langer

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Lawrence Langer’s Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit is one of the most brilliant books on the Holocaust I have ever read. Langer tackles the meaning of survivorship in the death camps, using language as a lens to examine the experience of atrocity and annihilation and those … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:17 · Genres: History · Tags: ·

The Only Mystery is, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?

The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke

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This book is nothing. I know that's a bold claim, but I've racked my brain since finishing The Ending Writes Itself, the new book by Evelyn Clarke, a pen name for the collaborative work of V.E. Schwab and Cat Clarke, and I can't come up with anything that accurately categorizes it. The publishers … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·


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