Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A basic intro to some famous cults.

Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them by Max Cutler & Kevin Conley

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 3 Book 5/30 I liked this but it didn’t really deliver what it promised. We do see “inside the world’s most notorious groups” (there were quite a lot of non-American cults in here, which was a pleasant surprise), but I think it is disingenuous of the subtitle to imply that this book tries to understand why people joined these cults, at least in any way beyond the most shallow and obvious (vulnerable people are catnip to cult leaders, who […]

“If I can only use my magic when you deem it safe, does that magic belong to me, or you?”

The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 3 Book 2/30 Whoops, I slept on this one. Should have read it sooner! Because it was a delight. You know, if you’re defining “delight” as something that purposefully stokes your anger and your sense of righteousness by making you feel protective of the civil rights and bodily autonomy of fictional characters. With magic! So I guess that is how I define “delight.” I’m not going to go too deep into the world here because part of the fun […]

This never quite came together for me, but it was interesting along the way.

Flux by Jinwoo Chong

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This is an interesting book that is ultimately not really for me, though it has some things going on that made me glad I read it. Even though it left me unsatisfied and mostly puzzled as to what the point was, I never wanted to stop reading (listening) to it, and I was fully engaged the whole time, which is not something you can say for a lot of three-star books. I put off writing this review very much on purpose because I was hoping […]

Who had Roger Rabbit as my most entertaining book of the year?

Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf

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I really enjoyed this movie when I was a kid. It came out when I was 7 – so I was prime Roger Rabbit age. It was a….different time. That movie was huge. It was maybe the first time I was aware of movies as blockbusters. It was huge, and then I didn’t think about the movie for about a decade. In the mid-90s, I remember Who Framed Roger Rabbit? being in the TV Guide. It was given 5 stars, and I remember being shocked […]

Women’s Work is Never Done

Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick

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Dahlia Lithwick’s Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America is both a history of women and the law in America and the stories of women who took on the Trump administration after 2016. Lithwick writes for Slate and is the host of the Amicus podcast. She is a lawyer, but she has worked in journalism for over twenty years. Her writing is accessible, the reader, or listener doesn’t have to be legally trained to appreciate this book. You really just need […]

The first book in an intimidatingly long series about nerdy, silly, time-travel historians, with a surprising amount of angst and drama.

Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St. Mary's, #1) by Jodi Taylor

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“If this was one of those books, there would now be three pages of head-banging sex. The reality was that he pulled me close, whispered, ‘Mfhbnnntx,’ and I pulled his arm over me like a cover and muttered, ‘Trout,’ and that was pretty much it.” This was a lot better than I thought it would be! (I’ve seen quite a few negative or lukewarm reviews.) I had fun with it. This strange little book is one that only could have come from the bonkers ground […]



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