The Cannonball Read Book Bingo Reading Challenge is a beloved annual tradition. You can get the complete information on this year's Bingo here. This year I'd like to help with your bingo board by providing assistance in finding books to meet a particular bingo circle. Where better to begin than with … [Read more]
A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz
CBR18 BINGO: And, because this is the 6th book in the Hawthorne & Horowitz series Anthony Horowitz is back with another Hawthorne mystery, and the premise this time is that his novel The Word is Murder is being turned into a movie! As you can imagine, this novel has fun skewering the movie … [Read more]
Blood of Dragons: Volume Four of the Rain Wilds Chronicles by Robin Hobb
Cbr18bingo Versus Blood of Dragons is the thrilling conclusion to The Rain Wilds Chronicles featuring the showdowns readers have been waiting for: men versus dragons, old ways versus new, and that nasty, greedy abuser Hest versus Alise and Sedric. The traders of Bingtown and the people of the … [Read more]
New Arcana by Jessica Traynor
CBR 18 Bingo: FRIENDS Back in mid-March, I was like, "Life is leveling out! I can write reviews again!" And then my beloved 16-year-old dog, not two weeks later, passed away. And I did not write any reviews, obviously. I'm not going to tempt the fates again by suggesting life is leveling out. … [Read more]
Hide and Seek by James Patterson
Bingo: Success. The two main characters are huge successes in their fields. Hide and Seek by James Patterson is terrible by any measure. It’s poorly written (and this is when Patterson was writing his own stuff I believe and not pairing up with ex presidents and a team of ghost writers). Its … [Read more]
Every Tom, Dick, and Harry by Elinor Lipman
So the premise is, our heroine takes over an estate sale business when her parents retire, and then oo la la a potential client turns out to be a brothel, should she take the gig? The naughtiness of the very thought! Frissons! Palpitations! This is nominally a rom com and kinda gestures towards … [Read more]
Stolen in Death by J.D. Robb
Not a bad installment to the "In Death" series. This honestly gets four stars since there was less what I call aggravations in this one. Plus, this one had a call back to a previous book, Innocent in Death. There are some loose ends in this long running series, so it was nice to get something nice … [Read more]
