Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Who do you run to when there’s no one to trust?

The Farm by Tom Rob Smith

by Leave a Comment

Daniel hasn’t heard from his parents in months, since they moved to an idyllic farmstead in Sweden to retire. When his father calls and tells him that his mother is sick, that her mind has failed her, it’s a shock. Even more so when his mother calls and says that his father is involved in a criminal conspiracy, and is trying to have her committed in order to keep her quiet. Daniel’s mother runs London to him to tell him her story of terrible crimes covered up by a powerful land owner, and to try convince him of her sanity. […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Purchase The Farm by Tom Rob Smith or any item from amazon via our link.

Funds raised are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name.

Share the post "Who do you run to when there’s no one to trust?"

9/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:9 |

I warned them that I don’t like to cry…

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

by 2 Comments

 I read this book for a book club that I’m a part of.  When we voted on our July selection, I deliberately did not cast mine for this book.  Because I just KNEW.  I could tell from the description that it was one of those books that was going to make me cry.  Apparently this is something that lots of people enjoy however, and I was outvoted. The titular character is a middle-aged Swedish man named Ove, who has lost his wife and his job in the span of six months.  As his life revolved around the love of Sonja, […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Purchase A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman or any item from amazon via our link.

Funds raised are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name.

Share the post "I warned them that I don’t like to cry…"

7/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:29 |

When the CIA is trying to kill you, you try to kill them back!

A Death in Sweden by Kevin Wignall

by 1 Comment

I love spy and conspiracy thrillers, so this was right up my alley.  Plus, it was a Kindle First, so it was free! I can’t remember the main character’s name.  Nevermind, I just looked it up, it’s Dan.  It starts out with him finding a guy that he’s supposed to recover for his spy job.  I think the job was for the CIA, but he doesn’t actually work for the CIA.  I guess you could call him an independent contractor.  He actually feels sad once he gets the guy, because the guy is walking his kid to school, and he has […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Purchase A Death in Sweden by Kevin Wignall or any item from amazon via our link.

Funds raised are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name.

Share the post "When the CIA is trying to kill you, you try to kill them back!"

2/21/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:4 |

Someone pay me to travel around Europe eating tasty food and kissing cute boys.

An Age of License by Lucy Knisley

by Leave a Comment

Lucy Knisley is a delightful, talented human being, and I will read every book she chooses to publish. This particular book is a record of her travels to Europe over the summer of 2011. She was invited to speak at a Norwegian comics convention in Bergen, and used the opportunity to travel to Sweden to visit a man she’d met several weeks before when he was vacationing in New York City. She also travels to France (Paris, and another city of which I’ve since forgotten the name), visiting a friend who works in a Parisian winery, and where she meets […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Purchase An Age of License by Lucy Knisley or any item from amazon via our link.

Funds raised are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name.

Share the post "Someone pay me to travel around Europe eating tasty food and kissing cute boys."

2/3/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:21 |

Growing up (in the north of Sweden) is hard to do

Populærmusikk fra Vittula (Popular Music from Vittula) by Mikael Niemi

by 1 Comment

Matti grows up in a tiny town in the remote north of Sweden in the 1960s and 70s. The chapters in this book are more like little short stories about different aspects of his childhood and adolescence, chronicled with humour and the occasional forays into strange, magical realism-inspired fantasy sequences. The inhabitants of his town and the surrounding areas seem to be either deeply puritanically religious or Communists, not caring for the trappings of religion at all. The gruff and peculiar inhabitants are set in their ways and far too prone to alcoholism. There’s the story of Matti’s near-mute best […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Purchase Populærmusikk fra Vittula (Popular Music from Vittula) by Mikael Niemi or any item from amazon via our link.

Funds raised are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name.

Share the post "Growing up (in the north of Sweden) is hard to do"

7/13/2015 | 's CBR7 Review No:72 |

Michael Bay would hate this book

Spring Tide by Cilla and Rolf Börjlund

by Leave a Comment

I chose this book because I got a discount code from Kobo. I got to choose this one from ten titles and I have no idea why I picked it; probably because the rest seemed even more unappetising. I have even less of a clue as to why I picked it up except that I wanted to read something easy and I’m saving Outlander for my upcoming beach holidays. I’m glad I picked it up, though. Spring Tide starts with the murder of a pregnant woman: on a desolate beach in a remote part of Sweden, two people bury her […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Purchase Spring Tide by Cilla and Rolf Börjlund or any item from amazon via our link.

Funds raised are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name.

Share the post "Michael Bay would hate this book"

7/5/2015 | 's CBR7 Review No:24 |

Wallender must find the targets of a vengeful woman before she does

The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell

by 2 Comments

This was my first foray into the world of Swedish detective Kurt Wallender, and while the main character shares the same alienated, depressed profile of so many of his counterparts in the Scandinavian police procedural literary genre, there is something else to Mankell’s protagonist that makes for a different and interesting reading experience. Wallender’s angst as he goes about his duties does not stem from some personality or mental disorder, but rather from the social and cultural decline he feels is swirling around him, day in and day out, making his job a true labor of Sisyphus. Several corpses turn […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Purchase The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell or any item from amazon via our link.

Funds raised are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name.

Share the post "Wallender must find the targets of a vengeful woman before she does"

1/31/2015 | 's CBR7 Review No:8 |

Miserable Weather + Terrible Taxes = Happy People?

The Almost Nearly Perfect People by Michael Booth

by 27 Comments

If I’d just seen Michael Booth’s The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia, I never would have read it. First of all, the cover of the Finnish edition is hokey as hell. Bad publisher. Go to your room and think of what you’ve done. Second of all, what would you think, if you saw a book that’s just 300 odd pages about Scandinavia and Scandinavian people? Boring, right? Booth mentions very early on that many people to whom he talked about his book project over the years had a similar reaction: “A book about Nordic countries? But we’re so […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Purchase The Almost Nearly Perfect People by Michael Booth or any item from amazon via our link.

Funds raised are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name.

Share the post "Miserable Weather + Terrible Taxes = Happy People?"

1/22/2015 | 's CBR7 Review No:3 |

Follow CBR on Instagram

Shop on Amazon and Support CBR

Buy Original Cannonballer Prisco's book and help CBR!

Ad Partner