Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Beware the Chocolate Mouse!

Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

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Rosemary’s Baby is the story of Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, a young couple living in New York City in the 1960’s. Living on Guy’s salary (he’s a barely making ends meet actor), they, or mostly Rosemary, decide they have to move into the Bramford, Levin’s answer to the Dakota. Welcomed by their neighbors Minnie and Roman Castevet and their tenant Terry Gionoffri, Rosemary and Guy quickly settle in. Guy becomes very close to the Castevets, especially after poor Terry throws herself out their window which […]

I’m Too Old, Too Sick, And Too Cynical For This

Secret Agent Girl: A Murder A-Go-Go Mystery by Rosemary Martin

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Total disclosure: you must know three things before you read this review; 1: I first read this book series 20 years when I was about 18, and my worldview has changed a lot since then. 2: I’ve had a lovely cold the entire time I’ve been rereading them. 3: (gestures vaguely to the United States and politics) When I first started to reread the Murder A-Go-Go series I would have told you I enjoyed them. True, they were pure unadulterated fluff, but they were harmless, […]

That Magic Sofa (a homage to Ben E. King)

Twist and Shout Murder: A Murder A-Go-Go Mystery by Rosemary Martin

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The fluff continues in the second installment of the Murder A-Go-Go Cozy Romance Mystery series, and as long as you remember that this is fluff and therefore not really a book series to take overly seriously, you’ll be fine. Set 3 weeks after It’s A Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod Murder, Bebe and her oh so dreamy boss Bradley Williams have moved from Rip-City Records Talent Company to Ryan Modeling on the round-the-companies tour Bradley’s Uncle Herman has sent him on. See, Uncle Herman has no […]

Even Murder Can Be Groovy

It's A Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod Murder by Rosemary Martin

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We all need harmless little fluff books in our lives, and this is one of the fluffiest. It’s 1964 and 22 year old Elizabeth “Bebe” Bennett, recently out of secretarial school in Richmond, Virginia, is loving her new independent life in New York. A month out from her move from Richmond, Virginia, she has a job as the secretary to the dreamy Bradley Williams, vice president of talent company Rip City Records. Bebe spends her days hard at work, daydreaming about the future when after […]



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