Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Out of the Mouths of Nursemaids and Travelers

The Watkins Book of English Folktales by Neil Philip

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England has a great culture of letters, but when it comes to folklore, people often don’t think further than Jack and the Beanstalk. In this collection of English folktales though, we can see that the isles have a great tradition of oral storytelling beyond it. In my ongoing pursuit of folklore from around the world, I never really stopped to consider English folktales until this book reminded me that my knowledge of it was in fact pretty scanty. Over the course of about 400 pages, […]

A quad stack of amazing CBR Exchange gifts!

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Thank you to my CBR Book Exchange giftee. Please let me know in the comments if these are from you! EDIT: Thank you ElCicco! <3 I love them all and miraculously don’t own any of them yet. My dog Oliver is very interested in reading these with me.

Can Travis master the Legendary Sword of Legends and fulfill his cosmic destiny? Without his parents learning he isn’t at fencing practice?

Travis Daventhorpe Powers Up! by Wes Molebash

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After a couple of more edgier titles, and a biography/memoir of Andy Warhol, I wanted something light to read. I found in my online reader copies Travis Daventhorpe Powers Up! by Wes Molebash. This is the second book in the series.  Since both volumes are currently available, I recommend reading them as closely together as possible, as there were several pieces I had forgotten about book one. Besides, it is fun to see how they pick up where we left off in book one. All the […]

Medieval Lady Pirate Cruising the Indian Ocean? Hot Damn.

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Shakraborty

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So I found a second new favorite genre this year.  The first is Mexican (actually Latin American) Gothic, and the second is now medieval Middle Eastern lady pirates.  One might think this is a narrow category, but there was The Stardust Thief, which I read a few books back.  This promises to be the first of a trilogy, and the author has a previous trilogy, The City of Brass, which is on its way from Powells even as we speak.  In other words, I am […]

Family and Monsters

Family Force V: Book One by Matt Braly

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Part Power Rangers, part Transformers, part Voltron and all superheroes and space monsters is how I describe Family Force V: Book One. Matt Braly’s graphic novel (read via an online reader copy, due mid June 2025) will be worth the wait for you or your preteen/teen reader. This coming of age story is one we know (your destiny is forced on you, but you choose the path that takes) is not new, but the way it’s presented is fun, humorous and cute. It is not […]

Ratcheting up the tension

Twisted Shadows by Allie Therin

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Twisted Shadows is the second book in Allie Therin’s Sugar & Vice paranormal/urban fantasy series. You must read Liar City to have a clue what is happening. I had to reread it as a refresher. In Allie Therin’s alternate universe, some people are born with supernatural empathic powers. Empaths are feared, fetishized, and regulated. Empaths can read emotions, and if corrupted, can turn people into thralls. A corrupted empath no longer cares about hurting people. The US government has an operative called The Dead Man who […]



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