Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Earlier this year, Taylor Jenkins Reid published Daisy Jones and the Six, which has generally been very well received critically and keeps popping up on “Must read” lists. In several review of that book, I saw this, Jenkins Reid’s previous release, from 2017, highly recommended. Several people who were so-so on Daisy Jones and the Six claimed to prefer The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and as movie stars seemed more intriguing to me than rock stars, I decided to give it a try. There are multiple narratives in […]

Important reminder that refugees don’t WANT to leave their homes

The Saffron Kitchen: A Novel by Yasmin Crowther

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I found this on summer vacation at an independent bookstore at Rehoboth Beach (Browseabout Books). It was a staff pick, and as I had had luck with previous staff picks from this store (Mudbound), I invested in this novel. And I am not disappointed. Published in 2006, The Saffron Kitchen is a beautiful, heartbreaking, entirely realistic story about Iran and England, mothers and daughters, the desire to be free and the pull of home and the past. Yasmin Crowther, the daughter of an English father […]

…in which love and Mormonism bore a part.

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

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CBR11 BINGO: Classics (BINGO! Youth square to Banned square) FINALLY! I know that I am so amazingly late to this party, but here I am. I missed the CBR Book Club reading of this. I have read the Lady Sherlock Series (Sherry Thomas) and the AMAZING The Affair of the Mysterious Letter (Alexis Hall) re-tellings. I watched the PBS show and the RDJ movies but never read any ACTUAL Sherlock Holmes stories or novels. Now I have. Ta-da! As I suspected, the bulk of the book was about Sherlock and his crazy mind. […]

Toby Daye and the selkies

The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire

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Spoiler warning! This is book 13 in a series, and really not the place to start. The first book is Rosemary and Rue, that’s where you want to begin, if you’re interested. Official book description: Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many people assumed that day would never come. Those people were wrong. When […]

Has the bones of “Beauty and the Beast” but more sexy and with faeries. CBR Bingo – Cannonballer Says

A Court of Thorn and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

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In August, alwaysanswerb posted a review of A Court of Thorns and Roses.  The review also covers the other two books in the trilogy of the same name.  It starts with over all impressions before moving into spoiler territory.  I stopped at the spoilers because I had been convinced to read this book and didn’t want to know!  Having finished A Court of Thorns and Roses, I’m wishing I had put the whole series on hold at the library instead of just the first one. […]

Slow at first, but absolutely worth it in the end

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

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From Goodreads: From the ground, we stand. From our ship, we live. By the stars, we hope Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but few outsiders have seen. Humanity has finally been accepted into the galactic community, but while this has opened doors for many, those who have not yet left for alien cities fear that their carefully cultivated way of life is under threat. Tessa chose to stay home when her […]



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