Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Songs of Grandfather

Cassi and the House of Memories: A Graphic Novel by Dean Stuart

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Sometimes I see a book and say to myself that it looks good, but for some reason say no thank you to actually reading. Then things happen and it keeps coming back to my attention. And finally one day I will say FINE I will read you. Sometimes I regret doing that, sometimes I do not. I am not sure how I feel about Cassi and the House of Memories: A Graphic Novel by Dean Stuart. This book is an emotional fantastical journey of a […]

Monsters and nightmares

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

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CBR17Bingo: “Purple” – for the purple on the cover I’ve read all the Hunger Games books, so when I heard there was a new one out, I knew I didn’t have a choice. I put a hold on Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (2025) and read it as soon as it became available. Sunrise is a prequel to the trilogy that made Collins famous. It focuses on Haymitch Abernathy, who in later books is the drunk and disillusioned “mentor” to Katniss and Peeta. The book takes place […]

Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue by Sheree Renée Thomas (Editor), Pan Morigan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Troy L. Wiggins (Editor)

Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue by Sheree Renée Thomas

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Well that’s a wrap for me for Halloween Bingo 2025. Last book. I can also say I am a little horror’ed out right now so am switching to some lighter stuff. I thought Trouble the Waters was really good. Some stories hit home and others legit made my skin crawl (that crawdad story still is freaking me out). Water Dreaming by Pan Morigan was a nice set up to this anthology. We are Called to the Water by Troy L. Wiggins gives us a different perspective of how precious […]

A tale of two parallel expeditions

Queen Demon by Martha Wells

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Bingo Square: Culture (it’s a fictional culture but so much of what drives and explains Kai is his cultural background and his status as one of the last remainders of his culture after they were victims of genocide/mass murder – he is the one who remembers the traditions and beliefs that have been lost) – also, 2nd Bingo (5th column). I absolutely adored Witch King when I read it two years ago and was excited to read this sequel. While I remembered the broad strokes […]

Black Cover and Maybe Some Black Hearts or not so Black

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

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Bingo 19: Black Leigh Bardugo’s The Familiar has a cover almost entirely in the proper color. Mostly, this is a story about people who want things they think they either cannot or should not have. Luiza is part Jewish (dangerous during the Inquisition) and has some minor household magic; her milagritos are things like she can make the bread unburnt. She wants to be something more than the scullery maid; she wants better, more money, more comfort, just more. There’s also her boss Valentina who […]

When someone is that calm in a crisis, either they don’t know what’s happening, or you don’t.

The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley

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Suffering doesn’t make people good or noble. A little bit gives them perspective. A lot turns them cruel, and too much – you get a murder or a marvel, and neither of those are really people any more. ― Natasha Pulley, The Hymn to Dionysus His duty was hurting him, and this is the medicine, and the only reason you think that’s unreasonable is that your duty has hurt you much more, there never was medicine for you, and you don’t see why other people […]



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