Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Few Twists, Some Predictable

The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

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Best for: Fans of the genre. In a nutshell: Jane Finn has some important war-related documents. Unfortunately, she has been missing for years, and even though The Great War is over, those documents are important. However, through a few seemingly random interactions, friends Tommy and Tuppence end up trying to track Jane down. Worth quoting: N/A Why I chose it: I’ve been enjoying her books and plays, and so placed holds on whatever the library had, and this was the first to become available. Review: […]

Damnit, Janet

Now or Never: 31 on the Run by Janet Evanovich

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Every year I start out strong and think, maybe this will be my year. I also am that girl who buys a new calendar every January, uses it until the 11th, and then gives up cause Google calendar is easier. But this year I’m NOT buying a calendar, so…. maybe that’s a good sign? (I mean, it’s only January 1st. I haven’t been to Target yet.) Anyway. Spoilers ahead. Lots. This is the 31st installment of these books, and yes, I have read every single one […]

Cannonball in the nick of time!

Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed

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No matter what the verdict is. No matter how long they would serve. They’re alive. Jawad isn’t. We might get accountability, but it won’t be justice. What’s justice for a murdered kid? I picked this book up after reading Internment, since I wanted more by the author. Also, it was free! What’s not to love about free books? Hollow Fires tells the story of Safiya Mirza, who dreams of becoming a journalist. Through her job as editor of the school newspaper, she has learned that […]

Good mystery and puzzling puzzles

Winterhouse by Ben Guterson

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“Some people say this world of ours is just a tumbling stone. No soul, no guide, no heart within, mere atoms all alone. But I believe there’s more to things than simply meets the eyes. There’s good and bad—and so I say: Make sure the good survives.” I first read this book years ago, but recently was cleaning and reorganizing my bookshelf, saw it, got inspired, and decided to revisit it. Elizabeth Somers, an orphan, got shipped of to Winterhouse Hotel buy her aunt and […]

Good, especially on the grand scale of sequels to books that don’t need sequels

Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

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I saw that Firekeeper’s Daughter had a sequel, and I didn’t know weather to be excited or disappointed since, usually, sequels to such incredible books are sad and unnecessary. However, this one, since it is less of a sequel and more of a companion novel, didn’t disappoint. This book follows Perry Firekeeper-Birch, one of Daunis’s cousins (I think). She was expecting to just spend her summer having fun, but she gets into a fender bender and has to pay Daunis back for her jeep, so […]

7 stars (out of 5)

Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

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“Some boats are made for the river and some for the ocean. And there are some who can go anywhere because they always know the way home.” This book is about Daunis Fontaine, a biracial unenrolled tribal member, meaning she doesn’t feel like she fits in in her hometown or the nearby Ojibwe reservation. However, her family experiences tragedy, and Daunis decides to stay and care for her family, which is how she ends up meeting Jamie, a new recruit on her brother’s hockey team. […]



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