Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“He also has only nine months to live, although he doesn’t know it yet.”

The Life of Chuck by Stephen King

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Based on the African proverb “When an old man dies, a library burns down” and the line from Walt Whitman’s poem Song of Myself “I am large, I contain multitudes”, The Life of Chuck is about the life of Charles “Chuck” Krantz, told backwards from his death to his early childhood, and how his death is causing the death of the universe held inside of him. Setting aside the contents for a moment, you have to love any book with Tom Hiddleston on the cover. […]

She died for the third time in a week and a half

The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen

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Tanrian Marshal Rosie Fox dies in chapter one of The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam, but that’s not her biggest problem. Her biggest problem is that she comes back to life. She’s immortal and she doesn’t like it. Rosie’s death happened when she tried to touch something inside a malfunctioning portal device. The portal device also died in the incident, requiring Dr. Adam Lee to visit Tanria to fix the portal. Marshal Fox and Dr. Lee met five years earlier, and she bound his wounded […]

Being a samurai isn’t easy

The Worst Ronin by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

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I’ve wanted to read The Worst Ronin since before it came out as I was seeing online reader copies. I did not actually get a copy until it was over a year old. With that said, it was worth the wait. I don’t think I would have appreciated the humor or elements before now. I recommend for ages at least 12 and up as there are several places where there is violence, injury, blood and other sensitive subjects.   Overall, it is the opposite of what […]

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher

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I think at this point I’ve read everything T. Kingfisher has published (the full-length novels at least, I think there’s still a few short stories I’ve yet to make it through). My favourite is probably Paladin’s Grace, but even the books I liked less (What Moves the Dead) I still liked. Therefore, I’ve been eagerly awaiting any of her new releases. I was lucky enough to recently be allowed to access an ARC (obligatory this hasn’t affected the contents of my review!) for one of […]

Book 3 of Venin, Love, and Dragons

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

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I’ve already spent a lot of time reading the Empyrean Series by Rebecca Yarros, so I quickly picked up Book 3 of the series when it became available to me. Onyx Storm (2025) continues to follow Violet Sorrengail and her loves and adventures in the Kingdom of Navarre. Violet is still technically a student. She is in her third year in the dragon school that kills at least twice as many people as it graduates. She has been chosen by two very special dragons and […]

Back to the beginning

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett

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I’ve read a number of books in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series and have enjoyed them to varying degrees (my favourite so far is probably Soul Music). It’s a 41-book comedic fantasy series that’s really more of a collection of subseries and standalone novels set in a shared world. Traditional wisdom is that it’s actually not recommended to start at the beginning as the first few books aren’t a good representation of the overall quality of the work (my personal recommendation for starting is the fourth […]



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