Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“When my life was new, I understood in my bones how little it mattered what anybody else was doing, or what they thought about what I was doing. I believed my bones then.”

Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

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In one word: Raw Cannonball Read Bingo: Elephant I’ve been toying with writing my own book for a few years now, and am finally starting to get serious about the endeavor, or at least get serious about saying I’m getting serious, which is practically the same thing, right? I cashed in a work award (thanks Snappy!) for a free six-month Skillshare membership and came upon a course by Ashley C. Ford on writing titled “Creative Personal Writing: Write the Real You.” I loved her style […]

STEM romance novella

Under One Roof by Ali Hazelwood

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After we read The Love Hypothesis for book club, I found a trio of novellas also by Ali Hazelwood. I quickly decided that I needed to read these as well. So, now that I’ve finished Below Zero and Stuck With You, I was able to get Under One Roof (2022) by Hazelwood on audiobook. Like Hazelwood’s other books, Under One Roof involves a woman in STEM–Mara, an environmental engineer who works for the EPA–a hunky man, misunderstandings, and love in the end. Mara is best friends with the women who starred in the previous […]

“I know the world will survive us–and in some ways it will be more alive.”

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

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I first heard about The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (2021) by John Green in my book club. We chose to read it. However, there were problems borrowing it from the library, and some of my friends did not like it. Thus, we ended up moving on without devoting a book club meeting to it. But by this point, I was intrigued, so I borrowed the audio version and listened to it in my car. The Anthropocene Reviewed was read by John Green and is made […]

A Surprise, to Be Sure, but a Welcome One

The Sandman Act II (Audio Production) by Neil Gaiman; Dick Maggs

The Sandman Act III (Audio Production) by Neil Gaiman; Dick Maggs

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As I admitted during my review of The Sandman Act I, I am aware that these productions are really pushing the limits of what an audiobook is. But since they are such close adaptions of the original graphic novels, and are tied together with heavy use of a narrator (Gaiman himself), I think it is fair to say that they still count.  I loved Act I very much, but I really didn’t get around to listening to Act II until earlier this year, as part […]

Yeah, I Could See That

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

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Best for: Those interested in what life can be like for a child actor with an abusive parent. In a nutshell: Jennette McCurdy became famous as part of a hit Nickelodeon television series. Behind the scenes, she was doing everything she could to please her abusive, narcissistic mother. Worth quoting: N/A (Audiobook) Why I chose it: I’ve seen it in so many shops, and it is a memoir read by the author – basically half of what I’ve been reading lately. Review: Damn. Content note […]

The village of hysterical women.

The Village of Eight Graves (Kosuke Kindaichi, #3) by Seishi Yokomizo

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Whaaaat the heck happened here. This was a mess. In fact, I had such a different reading experience with this third translated book in the Kosuke Kindaichi series that I kind of have to wonder if it was me and not the book, since presumably the English publisher chose to translate and publish this one third out of all the many, many available books in the series for a reason (and it’s not third in original publication order). I really wasn’t expecting to have such […]



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