Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Gotta catch ’em all

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

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Last year, I read Rachel Gillig’s The Shepard King duology (consisting of One Dark Window and Two Twisted Crowns). While I found it somewhat overhyped, I did still enjoy it enough to want to read the author’s future works. The Knight and the Moth, the first in a new series, released last month, so I picked it up. Sybil is a Diviner, a young woman who is serving for 10 years at a cathedral, along with 5 others. The Diviners are referred to by number […]

Getting caught up on unreviewed books from last year

The Hustler by Walter Tevis

Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa

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My world fell apart last November with the election of Donald Trump, and I’m still trying to put the pieces back together. Nothing literal (lucky me). I’ve just spent the past few months detached from….everything outside of my personal bubble. I’m getting back to normal, though. No less angry – but better able to be a part of the world, I guess. Unfortunately, reading has been one of the things that has fallen by the wayside. I haven’t had the mental energy to read and […]

“What an entirely haunted time to be alive.”

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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Nona has the best life ever. Sure, she lives on a war-torn hellscape of a planet with a malevolent blue sphere hovering in the sky. And okay, she can’t remember anything further back than 6 months ago. And also, it sure seems like she’s some kind of inhuman, immortal entity somehow inhabiting the body of Harrowhark Nonagesimus. But Nona has a family that loves her. She has a group of friends to explore abandoned buildings with. Sometimes, she even gets to pet a 6-legged dog […]

Morris, Argow and Dalton Authors and Illustrators in Print

Beatrix Butterfly Wings It for Once (Addie Ant's Garden Friends) by Maren Morris, Karina Argow and Kelly Anne Dalton

Addie Ant Goes on an Adventure by Maren Morris, Karina Argow and Kelly Anne Dalton

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I was looking for books for a couple of orders at work the other day and in the process looked at the faceouts of new picture books lining the shelves. One of them was Beatrix Butterfly Wings It for Once (Addie Ant’s Garden Friends) by Maren Morris, Karina Argow and Kelly Anne Dalton (illustrator). It has a funky, cute, interesting cover. It has pinkish-reds and just was sitting there, pushed back from the edge. It was hiding in the shadows. I pulled it forward to […]

It’s the end for Haru

Haru Book 3: Fall by Joe Latham

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In volume three of this series, Haru Book 3: Fall, our hero Haru must follow one of the last troupes of mythology and the journey of the hero. Haru is a non-binary blue-colored bird (with a younger sibling, a pig best friend, and a ghost robin mother) that has in volumes one (Spring) and two (Summer), traveled and fought the evil of the land, but in three we must take the trip to the Afterlife to be reborn. Joe Latham’s characters continue the journey started […]

Classic of Classics: The Hobbit

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

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Mr. Lux and I both have clear, fond memories of our introduction to this book: discovering an old copy sitting on a picnic table in a Texas playground, and starting to read with no idea what was about to happen (him) and of nightly out-loud reading after everyone was showered and in bed (me.) We have had this lovely illustrated version for several years, waiting for our eldest, now 9 years old, to pick it up and discover it. We got impatient, so I told […]



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