Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Twisty, Serial (the podcast)-style thriller

I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai

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Here is my first book of 2023 released in 2023 – and yet, with much of the action taking place in 2018, and 1995, it feels like an artifact of a different time altogether. At times, this reads like a Serial origin story. In 2018, Bodie Kane is invited back to Granby, a boarding school in New Hampshire that she attended in the early 1990s. Her graduating class was infamous for the deaths of three students – one of those students being her roommate, Thalia Keith. […]

Simple but interesting

The Awesome Human Journal: A Tool Kit for the Tough Days, the Good Days, and All the Days in Between by Nataly Kogan

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CBR15Passport genre   I have almost 590 reviews to hit 15 Cannonballs for Cannonball 15. And while it is possible (vel veeter did fourteen and change in 2019), is it practical for me to have that goal/thought/need/etc? Probably not. However, the reason I started my review off like this is because I was wondering if The Awesome Human Journal: A Tool Kit for the Tough Days, the Good Days, and All the Days in Between would be a good journal for me to have someplace […]

“She might be less than what she had once been, but she was still worth a hell of a lot.”

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

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Billie and her three colleagues – Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie – are gearing up for retirement. After forty years of being international assassins, it’s time to hang up their weapons. Their organisation, The Museum, sends them on a fabulous cruise as part of the send off, but in the midst of the festivities they discover they’re being targeted by one of their own. Only the top level of the Museum can order a hit, and once they get our of their sticky situation, they’re […]

“How terrible – to be an ordinary orphan.”

When We Were Sisters: A Novel by Fatimah Asghar

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CBR15passport new to you authors Fatimah Asghar (they/them) is a writer and co-producer of the Ms. Marvel series on Disney+ as well as creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls. They have published poetry and a previous novel, If They Come For Us. Asghar’s parents experienced the chaos and violence of the partition of India and Pakistan and emigrated to the US, where Asghar was born.  Asghar’s parents died when Asghar was a child. While similar events occur in When We Were Sisters, this […]

For such a warm title, this one left me cold

Smolder by Laurell K. Hamilton

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Oh, Laurell K. Hamilton… Why do you have this hold on me? Why can’t I quit you? I just finished reading her new novel, Smolder. It is the 29th installment in her best-selling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. Y’all. It is nothing but an endless series of relationship therapy and sex scenes during the course of one night.  Some of Hamilton’s more recent entries in the series have been more of a return to form, more actual problem solving and monster hunting. Some have even […]

Bachelor In Spaaaace!

Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews

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Any excuse for a bad Muppet joke! Sweep of the Heart is the sixth book in the Innkeeper Chronicles. Innkeepers Dina and Sean are happily running the inn Gertrude Hunt together. Unfortunately Sean’s werewolf mentor is kidnapped and in order to get him back they must host an intergalactic spousal selection. It’s the Bachelor in space and it is fabulous. Twelve contestants must compete in various challenges televised across the universe for the heart of the Dominion’s ruler. No roses are handed out but there […]



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