Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Boy Bites Man

Man Tiger (Lelaki Harimau) by Eka Kurniawan

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Man Tiger starts out with a killer opening line: On the evening Margio killed Anwar Sadat, Kyai Jahro was blissfully busy with his fishpond. This crime leaves the populace of a small Indonesian fishing village in shock—Margio, barely twenty, is a well known and well-liked kid. Margio has never been prone to violence. Some folks speculate that with the recent deaths of both his little sister and his father, the boy possibly just snapped. But why was Anwar Sadat the target of his violence? And […]

I laughed, I cried, I will re-read.

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

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“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.” This is my favorite of Backman’s books (that I’ve read) by quite a large margin. I would […]

Joyeux Noël

A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny

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There’s 12 days of Christmas, folks. We all have through January 6th to celebrate. So I got my holiday reading in just under the wire. Yay me. Been meaning to return to the Inspector Gamache series after enjoying the first book. The women from my crime fiction class swear to it and I can see why. It’s an engaging mystery series that has the elements of a cozy but is a little more hardened. Three Pines is a charming place and the people all seem […]

A rather Gothic mystery

The Anatomist's Wife by Anna Lee Huber

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“The scream froze me in my tracks, but the shout that followed propelled me out of my indecision and around the hedge line of the maze…Lady Godwin lay draped across a stone bench, her eyes stared sightlessly into the night sky and her mouth seemed frozen open on a scream.” “Death was not unfamiliar to me.  I had seen more than my fair share of corpses in my lifetime…so I hardly relished the appearance of yet another one, and in my sister’s garden no less. […]

A cozy mystery for coffee geeks

On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle

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I decided for a change of pace with On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle, the first Coffeehouse mystery. I like coffee, but I really like humorous pun book titles even more. I also LOVE me some cozy mysteries. I’m patiently waiting for the Christmas romances to disappear and the return of Hallmark mystery marathons. They are a balm to the soul whether on screen or the page. I like how the mystery tends to be solved swiftly and how easily I can devour the pages. […]



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