I spent a while trying to decide which book I was going to review for the Delicious slot on my Bingo card. I knew I wanted to do a cookbook, because I have a lot of them and I love reading and rereading them cover to cover. I thought about doing one of my newer acquisitions, but the truth is that while I love them and have read them I haven’t really cooked from them. I think that if you’re going to do a cookbook […]
FRAMED FOR MURDER!!! (Yawn)
The Guilty Wife was an okay book. That’s where I’d like to leave this review, but I guess that’s against the rules. The Guilty Wife, like all books labeled a “psychological thriller” post Gone Girl attempts to be sly and have at least one (possibly two or three) twists. And quite frankly? I’m sick of the twists…especially when you can see the big old twist a mile away down the road. I teach a fiction writing course and I always tell the kids that […]
Yes, she can be a little “extra.” But the food is delicious.
I think at this point, most of humanity is familiar with Chrissy Teigen. I follow her on Twitter and Instagram. I enjoy her comment round-ups on Comments by Celebrities. I love her obsession with Walter(Owen’s Grandp), who may or may not be real. Her kids are adorable and her mothering is relatable. Her husband seems cool and pretty normal for a massive celebrity. And like a lot of others, SOMETIMES I CANNOT GET THE RIDICULOUS HEADBAND OF THE DAY SONG OUT OF MY HEAD. Sure, […]
Like Firefly, if Zoe was the Captain
I got the audio book for The Palace Job because of fun reviews from emmalita and lowercasesee. Sometimes I think the more fun part of the Cannonball is reading reviews to get new books to read. The only problem with listening to the audio book is you have to look up all the spellings for the fantasy names. The Palace Job is about a rag-tag group of misfits who plan to rob Archvoyant Silestin (a competent and formidable bad guy…hooray!). There’s a war between the […]