Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

We got a puppy!

The Story of Your Dog by Brandon McMillan

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On May 13th, my boyfriend and I officially adopted a puppy! Her name is Sadie. She’s very cute and very sweet, and she’s a handful. As the first dog of our adult lives, I feel a responsibility to not mess her up too much. She’s signed up for some group obedience classes, but we can’t get her in for almost another month. So I’ve been reading puppy training books and watching Youtube videos, which have been pretty helpful. It’s kind of amazing to see her […]

If your therapist started writing chick-lit, this is what you’d get.

Things You Save In A Fire by Katherine Center

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This is the second Katherine Center book I’ve read. My book club read How To Walk Away a couple years ago. It was fine! Not my usual cup of tea, but we actually had a good discussion around disability, the ethics that therapists should/do follow, etc. I thought Things You Save In A Fire might be a good addition for the Beach Reads presentation that I’m doing for work. Cassie Hanwell is a 26 year old fire fighter. She’s also a rising star in the […]

Fantastic second book!

The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart

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[review contains references and spoilers for Bone Shard Daughter, book one of The Drowning Empire trilogy] After defeating her father, Lin hoped taking over as emperor would be a smooth transition, but no one knows who she is and don’t trust the Sukai family after the terrors of tithing festivals and constructs. But with Jovis, who has become a folk hero, at her side she decides to travel across the empire to announce the ending of tithings, return everyone’s bone shards, and try to get […]

“Having [the kids] in a confined space after traveling for thirty-six hours was like chain-smoking in a fireworks factory.”

We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year by Charles Wheelan

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I really love a good travel book. I also love to actually travel, but armchair travel is much more cost effective! We Came, We Saw, We Left is a travel book, but it’s also a family book, which had both pros and cons. The Wheelans, or “Team Wheelan,” as Charles often dubs them, are an upper-middle-class family from Hanover, NH. The father is a professor at Dartmouth, the mother is a school teacher/administrator, and the three children range in age from 13 – 18. I […]

“Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts.” Oh, buddy. You were so close.

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

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This is another series that my husband has been reading forever, and I just never picked one up until now. Storm Front is the first of 25 planned books (19 are currently out). The set-up is similar in a lot of ways to Midnight Riot: Harry Dresden is a Wizard living in Chicago, and working more or less as a private detective. He is also on retainer to Chicago PD for those cases that are just a little too…out there. In classic noir fashion, a […]

Ugh, another stinker I had to power through

Ghost Road Blues (Pine Deep #1) by Jonathan Maberry

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After reading the zombie anthology that Jonathan Maberry helped to edit, I wanted to try one of his books.  My library had the first book in his Pine Deep series, so I decided to give it a try. Just woof.  I did NOT like this book.  So many people were just giant assholes and I couldn’t get behind them as characters.  If I don’t like the characters, it’s just not going to happen for me. I guess some people came back to life and just […]



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