Welcome to the August check in for the Cannonball Read 18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge. It is hot where I am. I know John Green gives air conditioning only three stars in The Anthropocene Reviewed, but I was without for 6 hours today and I can assure you that it is not optional during a Texas heat … [Read more]
Bombshells by Sarina Bowen
I went through a phase some years ago where I read a lot of books by Sarina Bowen because I found them fun and entertaining. Recently, I was looking for good road trip books, and I looked her up again. I realized that I had missed a couple, and decided now was the time to do some catch up. I'm not … [Read more]
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves
This book was heartbreaking. Somebody somewhere suggested it to me (it could've even been an article I read). We start out with Travis, who is Death. He kinda meanders through his life taking people when it's their time. I think he lives in New York. Oh and a random white cat finds its way into his … [Read more]
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews
CBR18 BINGO: 26, because it was published in 2026 Just shy of the halfway point in This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me, I was struggling to understand why it came so highly recommended. At the start of the novel, the heroine, Maggie, finds herself alone and naked in a ditch, in a world that she knows … [Read more]
Total Chaos #2 Loving a Witch Is Totally Foolish by Aura Hayes
My new spin friends suggested this series to me a few months ago. I listened to the first book (Loving a Vampire is Total Chaos) first and loved it. I didn’t realize it was a series at first though. And then I got to the end of this book and was super sad that the third (and final I think) book … [Read more]
Wake-Up Calls by Mariah Stewart
This is not a bad book, but it definitely could’ve been a short story or a novella. It’s nearly four hundred pages long, and I didn’t need at least two hundred fifty of them. I remember thinking I wish I could read a kindle book on 1.5x like I do on audiobooks that I’m trying to power through. I … [Read more]
We'll Prescribe You Another Cat by Syou Ishida, E. Madison Shimoda (Translator)
I read the first book (this title minus “Another”) last summer. I’m a crazy cat lady, so it touched my heart and soul. Gratuitous cat shots (Osiris on left, Horus on right): There’s a pretty magical mental health clinic in Japan called The Kokoro Clinic for the Soul that appears for … [Read more]
