Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Bookstore Keepers by Alice Hoffman

The Bookstore Keepers by Alice Hoffman

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I don’t know if this is going to be the last book in Hoffman’s series, but this felt like a very weird note to end things on. I have loved the magical realism of the other books, but this one was kind of not hitting it for me. And I think it’s because of a common thing that often happens in romance books which I think is going to set off some readers. No spoilers, but I was just disappointed by it. “The Bookstore Keepers” […]

Live to work/work to live, la la la

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth by Cory Doctorow

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I don’t know if this even counts – it might be a short story. But then again, it might be a novella (I read it online and wasn’t paying attention to its length). So, I’m both a great and terrible audience for this – I won’t pretend to have understood most of their sysadmin stuff. But I do love an apocalyptic situation. So…here we go. An extremely short and oversimplified synopsis might be Computer Geeks Save Us All. An extremely fast-acting virus has more or […]

Weird Black Girls by Elwin Cotman

Weird Black Girls by Elwin Cotman

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I thought this was a good collection. Per usual, I rate overall and then for each story in the collection. Trigger warning: Rape I feel really bad I accidentally dropped this one in the bathtub the other day. I was reading (as one does) and then slip! And now it’s dry, but definitely a little swollen. Oh well! “The Switchin Tree”(5 stars)-I really liked this story that follows a young girl named Man whose family and community gets turned upside down in 1958. The children […]

Just like any mother and child, except, you know they are vampires

Noss and Zakuro Vol. 1 by Rariatto

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One day you find yourself finding a book called Noss and Zakuro Vol. 1 by Rariatto. It is just a few words on the screen but you find yourself interested. Until you are not. Then later it comes up again. But again, only a brief interest happened. This repeated itself several times before you found yourself interlibrary loan requesting it. Only to learn that your local library had it most of that time to begin with.  So you request it and a few days later […]

For Sale, Short Stories, Fairly Used

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King

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Short story collections are always hard to review. They’re not one concrete entity by nature, but simply going through and reviewing each story feels tedious. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams presents a further complication, in that King’s conceit is that these particular stories are quite different from each other. Likening them to offerings for sale at a kooky marketplace, King dedicates each story in the collection to a different writer, suggesting that they served as an inspiration for the piece, though in most cases it […]

I picked a couple fun images from online, but the whole book I wish I could publish here!

Monster Cats Vol. 1? by Pandania

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What can you say about a book that is titled, Monster Cats Vol. 1? Well, you can say it is by Pandania. You can say it is fun, cute and silly. It is an easy to read manga comic that talks about, in a conversational format, about the “narrator” and their particular monster cats. No, they are not cats who have monster personalities, but are actual monsters: vampires, invisible man (woman?) cat, a yeti, sirens, and even mimics and moving chests. To be read in the […]



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