Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Another book with an interesting concept that meandered aimlessly and ran full steam ahead into despair

Anthem by Noah Hawley

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The summary of this book may sound morbid, and it may be odd that it drew me in, but here we are.  I like a mystery. Here is what my library’s audiobook / ebook app had as a synopsis: Suddenly and without precedent or explanation, something awful has been happening to teenagers across the globe, forcing parents to face a lonely future without their children.  At the site of each loss, there lies a cryptic message, A11, which may be the clue to solving the […]

Frustrating, intriguing, and even sometimes satisfying

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

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If anyone’s a long time Kfishgirl fan (like read my CBR posts in the past few years), you’ll know that my favorite thing / something that brings me silly joy is when the title of the book is mentioned in the actual book itself.  I also like when people run out of bullets in movies and throw their gun at their enemies, but that’s a different topic.  Catch and Kill is basically what media organizations were doing or are currently doing when there’s a big […]

“Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear.”

Night Shift by Stephen King

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Took me long enough to get through this one. But my brain was not in a great place when I started, and I had to wait to read a bunch of freaky-deaky stories until my brain felt better. Which it did over the weekend, and I zoomed through this. Stephen King’s imagination is a wild place, especially Stephen King of fifty years ago (some of these stories were published in the 60’s, even though the book was published in 1978). Some of the stories didn’t […]

This is the most fun I’ve had reading a scary book, like ever!

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

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I selected this book to read because it sounded weird and scary and interesting.  I had no idea funny was on the menu too!  It did not disappoint. Kara kinda starts out as a sad sack that you root for.  She just got divorced, and rather than moving back in with her BANANAS and pain in the butt mother, she moves into her uncle’s spare room.  It’s a spare room in his museum of oddities – Uncle Earl’s Museum of Wonders.  The first (nearly) half of […]

I started this book on a plane, and it got me through takeoff and landing. Those are the pros…

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King

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So here is a blurb from the first review I saw for this book: “In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?” I was excited when I read the summary of the book.  It’s a super weird, but interesting idea.  Basically the whole world gets infected by a virus, but only the women are affected.  They go to sleep and end up in a cocoon, but […]

Faye & Felix & Sage & Dreamcatchers

Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell

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Faye and Felix are both hardworking young professionals – she as an assistant at the local zoo, he as an English lit PhD – so like any couple, they jump at the chance to stay at Faye’s parents’ cottage deep in the Rocky Mountains for a few days. At first, all appears to be well; the cottage is charming and comfortable, and the trails leading off the back of the cottage up the mountain are beckoning them. But soon things go awry. Voices call out […]



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