Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Sandwiches of the Past to try in the Future

Sandwiches of History the Cookbook by Barry W. Enderwick

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I recently was on a long road trip to visit family for the holidays from the SouthEast to MidWest. That means a lot of radio time, which means, NPR, Christian pop, or country. I have an extremely limited tolerance for the latter two, so there was a lot of NPR. On NPR I heard an end of year book review sequence, and I had to look up one of the books. It turns out there is a podcast now cookbook on food history that I’d […]

“A podcaster has decided to ruin my life, so I’m buying a chicken.”

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. Listen, when it does the thing it does thing, so I had to round up to five stars because it’s so rare that I truly love a thriller. So many of them sound exactly the same, and have the exact same premise, and don’t really do much interesting beyond trying to shock the hell out of you (which I find uninteresting as the basis for a book). This […]

The Truth Doesn’t Matter

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

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Five years ago, Lucy was found wandering the streets, dazed and covered in the blood of her best friend. No one knows what happened, but everyone believes that it was Lucy who killed Savvy – until a podcaster comes to town to dig up the whole case again. I generally avoid the recent spate of mystery books that use podcasts as plot devices. For one, I’m not even a fan of investigative podcasts, and it’s always seemed more like a framing gimmick than anything else. […]

A murder podcast is nothing new – unless it helps the murderer target you!

Girl Forgotten by April Henry

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Ooh this one was cool.  A teenage girl starts a true crime podcast, which is super of the moment. There are more true crime podcasts than one human can keep up with these days. Hers is part of her high school senior year project though, which makes it a little more interesting in the grand scheme of things. She starts out the book walking through a cemetery (I can’t remember why?) and comes across a grave. Ooh and she’s in a new town because something […]

A basic intro to some famous cults.

Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them by Max Cutler & Kevin Conley

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 3 Book 5/30 I liked this but it didn’t really deliver what it promised. We do see “inside the world’s most notorious groups” (there were quite a lot of non-American cults in here, which was a pleasant surprise), but I think it is disingenuous of the subtitle to imply that this book tries to understand why people joined these cults, at least in any way beyond the most shallow and obvious (vulnerable people are catnip to cult leaders, who […]

Pod Stalking

If I Disappear by Eliza Jane Brazier

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Read as part of CBR14 Bingo: Shadow. The main character shadows around her favorite podcaster who may-or-may-not be dead, looking to see if she can figure out the cause of her sudden disappearance.  With the release of Adnan Syed from prison, I’ve been wondering if the podcast Serial did more harm than good. While it brought Adnan’s case to the forefront of the nation’s psyche, it was really Rabia Chaudry who did the legal heavy lifting to free him. And since season one of Serial ended, it’s spawned an infinite amount […]



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