Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Surf Dracula

Mister Magic by Kiersten White

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The Surf Dracula corollary began as a tweet regarding television. User @TopherFlorence… back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you’d see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 min in the finale Topher’s tweet is accurate. Too many shows nowadays are invested in origins and withholding. It […]

Just a bit of fun… gone horribly wrong

Read at Your Own Risk by Remy Lai

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I almost didn’t read Read at Your Own Risk by Remy Lai. I have enjoyed reading their Surviving the Wild books and have had other titles by them on my radar, but at first I didn’t realize this was theirs and second it did not look like it was something I would normally read. But since one goal this year is to break away from the reading norm and try new things, I thought a young adult thriller might be good. Well, it is a […]

Needless is About Right

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

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How many times am I going to let myself get burned by trusting in a Stephen King blurb? I love the guy, but his tastes are a little more democratic than mine. Before fans of this novel come at me, bro, I’ll offer the disclaimer that I listened to this on audiobook and the narrator’s voice, or should I say voices, really annoyed me. Anyway, the Last House on Needless Street is about Ted, a mentally unstable man who lives with his daughter Lauren and […]

“Imagination is hungry, and needs to be fed.”

You Like It Darker by Stephen King

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I have long maintained that, for me, Stephen King’s short stories and novellas hit harder than most of his books. I just like them more; they are snappier. While I do enjoy taking my 1,000-plus-page journey to Derry in IT, sometimes it’s nicer to have a story come in, do its thing, and then leave. You Like It Darker is Stephen King’s latest short story collection and is a mix of previously published stories (something I did not realize until I was like, “Wait… have […]

“Only living here wasn’t exactly turning out to be normal.”

Night of the Living Queers by Shelly Page and Alex Brown

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In honor of Pride month (well, actually, Overdrive selected it for me because it was available, and, fortuitously, it fits the theme!), I picked up Night of the Living Queers, edited by Shelly Page and Alex Brown. This YA short story collection, which is unfortunately named, in my opinion, was terrific. As with any short story collection, there were a few stories that didn’t work so well for me, but as a collection, writing quality was uniformly high, the variety was delicious in terms of […]

And you thought your job was soul sucking

Hunger's Bite by Taylor Robin

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I asked (texted) a friend the other day asking her, “Why do I find books almost a year before publication? Especially book one of a series?” She answered it was because I was in the early book business. Reader copies are machines to the future (publication of a book), but also they are the dynomite used to open the passages for the trains of reading in the first place. And if the found early book is a stinker, no problems. But when you find something […]



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