Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“For all stories have an ending as well as a beginning. But a beginning is where you choose to plant your foot, and the ending is only the edge of one’s own knowledge.”

The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. I quite enjoyed my time with this lovely little book. You might want to have the proper expectations going in, though, because the blurb is a little misleading. I had no expectations so I was fine. This is a mystery, but not, and this is a revenge story, but not. It’s melancholy and full of grief, but also cheeky and the main characters are also full of love, […]

It’s all Greek to me

Mythos by Stephen Fry

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Stephen Fry has penned and narrated a compelling retelling of the Greek myths of old. Starting with the creation of the world and going up until the troubled reign of King Midas, he deftly tells the various tales with wit and confidence. I am far from an ancient Greek scholar, but I knew the basics going in to Mythos. Titans, horny gods, Pandora’s box, stealing fire, Gordian knots… This is a deep well from which to draw stories. In the closing pages of this book, […]

Strong Investigating But Hard to Get Into

The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe

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Best for: People interested in the concepts of immigration and human trafficking. In a nutshell: Keef explores the life of Sister Ping, a woman who helped smuggle thousands of people to the US from China, and along the way looks at the history of immigration laws and the lengths people will go to when they want to build a different life. Worth quoting: N/A Why I chose it: I’ve read all of Keefe’s other books, and really enjoyed most of them. Review: I am someone […]

White Privilege Pyramid Scheme

Hey Hun by Emily Lynn Paulson

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Hey Hun is the story of Emily Lynn Paulson’s time in an MLM. She is the narrator of her own audiobook. Emily changes the name of the MLM to protect herself from being sued, but she doesn’t really level anything particularly shocking against the company. The company uses the standard techniques of an MLM in that the people who start the MLM make money by recruiting more people into the company, and the people at the bottom of the pyramid who joined the company last […]

The Autobiography of a Narcissistic Psychopath

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

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Coriolanus Snow’s only way to rebuild his family’s legacy is to have his tribute make a good showing in the 10th Hunger Games. But when he starts to become interested in Lucy Gray, he wonders if it might be possible for her to actually win them. I put off reading this book for a long time, scared off by mixed reviews from other fans of the Hunger Games series. It’s certainly a different type of story, but I ended up appreciating this new perspective into […]

Joshua Jackson reads Canadian Boyfriend – updated review audiobook edition

Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday

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After really enjoying my arc of Jenny Holiday’s Canadian Boyfriend I saw the news that Joshua Jackson would be narrating Mike Martin’s part in the audiobook. And then I saw the arc offer and jumped on it. And now I have mixed feelings about it. I’ll start with what I liked. I liked, really liked, the duet format. I want more of this please. It is imperfect, you could really tell at times that the dialogue was recorded at different times and probably different spaces, but […]



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