Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

If you are needing some unsettling horror-type reading, here you go

The Night Guest: A Novel by Hildur Knutsdottir

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If you’re looking for a book to set you on edge for spooky season, this is it. This short novel from Icelandic author Hildur Knutsdottir is a very quick read full of foreboding and tension. It’s also a commentary on women’s health and mental health and the stigma/lack of attention attached to both.  The novel is narrated by the main character, a woman who I imagine to be in her 30s or so. Odunn (not sure if this is a correct spelling, since it seems […]

Early Fall Leftovers

To Start A War: How the Bush Administration Took Us Into Iraq by Robert Draper

The Travelers by Chris Pavone

A Walk Among the Tombstones by Lawrence Block

Dark Fire by CJ Sansom

The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation by Robert Rand

Stasi Child by David Young

The Cover Wife by Dan Fesperman

So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison

Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich

Geiger by Gustaf Skördeman

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll

Slow Horses by Mick Herron

The Devil Knows You're Dead by Lawrence Block

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I’ve read some interesting stuff lately and I wish I had made more time to document it but life gets in the way that life sometimes does. Not all bad, just life. To Start A War**** I had a long thing here about connecting this to the 2024 election but I don’t want to talk current electoral politics on here, at least the specifics of them. A good book if you want to know the intelligence (ha) perspective of how we wound up in a […]

Mina Murray Vampire Hunter (or it is ‘Dracula’ but not)

The Madness by Dawn Kurtagich

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Firstly, I picked this book to read because I saw two of the characters had the names of Mina and Lucy,  with Lucy struck down by a mysterious illness.  Then the book flap mentioned “terrible, ancient truths” and “an evil beyond comprehension.” and I  read between the lines and thought that this was going to be some kind of Dracula situation.  And I am here for various takes on Dracula.  And this book is that!  But it is also its own thing, borrowing some names, […]

Dirge has one unique style that is going to be a huge hit with the right adult audience. I am sooooooooo not that audience

I Can Count To Ten by Roman Dirge

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Roman Dirge is one SICK dude! Therefore they have a huge hit on their hands with I Can Count To Ten as there are a lot of  other disturbed individuals out there. I am glad that he put the disclaimer in I Can Count To Ten (and I read it) as you know (as Dirge mentions) that people will buy this book thinking it is a cute, child-friendly book about learning to count. (However, it probably should be on the cover, not a page or […]

Fluffy lamby and blood

Cult of the Lamb Vol. 1: The First Verse by Alex Paknadel

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Possible triggers (including, but not limited to violence, cults, magic) I have no clue what the publisher description means: In partnership with Devolver Digital and Massive Monster, Oni Press proudly presents Cult of the Lamb: The First Verse-the hugely anticipated first graphic novel exploration into the sprawling cosmology of the millions-selling, multiple BAFTA Award-nominated video game phenomenon that has Polygon begging players to “smash that worship button”! That’s good….. Right? There is more with: ANIMAL CROSSING MEETS HADES: This is Animal Crossing with sex and […]

Clown Vs Teenagers

There's No Way I'd Die First by Lisa Springer

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What happens when an aspiring teenage movie critic hosts a Halloween party at her isolated mansion home, invites her friends (and some quasi-friends who are teenage influencers), and sets up a fun “game” involving a creepy clown, but the clown turns out to be like – psychotic?  Well, you get There’s No Way I’d Die First by Lisa Springer, where our heroine Noelle gets to prove she has the chops to be a Final Girl, and show there is no way she’d die first. This […]



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