Cannonball Read 17

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Why Does the Husband Always Suck?

We Used to Live Here by Daniel Hurst

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Steph and Grant have just bought their forever home. Sure, it needs some renovations (that wallpaper is hideous, and there’s a wall that needs to come down), but it’s got a lovely big garden and room for their growing family. One afternoon an older couple rings the bell, explaining that they used to live there and asking if they might have a tour of the place? Grant is annoyed but Steph is pleased, showing them around and chatting about the differences between their time in […]

Imagine Douglas Adams on Cocaine

Space Oddity by Catherynne M. Valente

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In Space Opera, we met Decibel Jones, former frontman for British glam band Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes, and followed him as he was conscripted into a mission to prove humanity’s sentience – and thus save them from extermination – by placing anything but last in the Metagalactic Grand Prix. Think Eurovision, but in space! Spoiler alert, Decibel Jones succeeded, with the help of a time-traveling red panda and the resulting appearance of a younger version of his long-dead drummer, Mira Wonderful Star. As […]

A Spooky Read for Spooky Season

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

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It’s October, and while I might not read *solely* spooky books this season, it seemed appropriate to kick off the month with a master of the genre. I have never read anything by Shirley Jackson (no, not even The Lottery) and I was most familiar with her work via Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House. Which is an excellent show (highly recommend!) but by all accounts not a great adaption of the source material. More like, inspired by. So I went into We Have […]

What Love Story?

Liquid: A Love Story by Mariam Rahmani

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Our unnamed narrator is a post-doc struggling to find even adjunct-level jobs in the cutthroat world of academia. When she’s told that she’s not getting a single course in the fall, her best friend Adam – a marketer by day and poet by night – suggests she just try marrying rich. It’s a joke, but our narrator takes it seriously. She sets herself the task of going on 100 dates over the course of the summer, with the goal being a proposal (or at least […]

A Rollicking Tale of Revenge, and a Reckoning with Grief & Regrets

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

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Two fathers; one black, one white. Two sons; married and murdered. One driving mission: find out who did it, and make them pay. Ike Randolph got out of jail 15 years ago and has been on the straight and narrow ever since. But cops knocking at a Black man’s door is never a good thing. In this case, it’s the worst thing. Ike’s son Isaiah has been murdered in cold blood, alongside Isaiah’s white husband Derek. Neither Ike nor Derek’s father Buddy Lee had really […]

Mothers & Daughters, and the Wilderness

Heartwood by Amity Gaige

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Just a few days away from completing the Appalachian Trail, through-hiker Valerie Gillis has gone missing. Beverly, a Maine State Game Warden with an impeccable track record for finding missing persons, is lead on the case. She knows that the first few days after someone goes missing are the most crucial, and so she coordinates search parties, aerial surveillance, and scent dogs in a race against time to find Valerie alive. Valerie is well and truly lost in the Maine woods, and we learn about […]



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