Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Very Short Murderbot Story

Compulsory (Murderbot Diaries #0.5) by Martha Wells

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In my attempts to conquer my bad reading year (both in quantity and experience) I’ve decided to just read whatever strikes my fancy and stop trying to solve it. At least for now I’m sticking to as many short works or graphic novels/comic books as I feel like reading. I’m also trying to revisit old standbys without re-reading. When I noticed that there was a Murderbot short story I wasn’t previously aware of, I leapt onto it. It is a short story, a very short […]

Eyyyyy, I’m readin’ a book here!

Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics by Ed. Tim McLoughlin

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Read as part of CBR15bingo: You are here. This book is part of the Akhasic Noir series, which does an excellent job at plumbing the depths of urban and/or city-state locations through tales of noir. I picked up Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics simply because I like the Akhasic Noir series. I enjoyed the first Brooklyn one and other books; there are good stories mixed with bad ones in each of them. But I didn’t have high hopes of getting blown away. I was blown away. I […]

Animal Rescue Friends gang and their furry, feathered, and flying friends

Animal Rescue Friends: Learning New Tricks: Volume 3 by Harriet Low

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I have not read Animal Rescue Friends volumes one and two, as I happened to find Animal Rescue Friends: Learning New Tricks: Volume 3 as an online reader and thought it sounded interesting without doing further research. It can be a standalone story, but  I assume you should probably read volume one which will introduce you to the characters and why they are working with animals that need to be adopted. This is a clever book and feels as if Babysitters Club’s Little Sister Karen […]

A Curious Collection

Liberation Day by George Saunders

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I’m a big fan of George Saunders, who is probably the best-known short story writer working in America today. At his best, Saunders’s visions of broken possible futures remind me of my favorite author, Kurt Vonnegut. Like Vonnegut, it feels wrong to characterize Saunders’s work as science-fiction, but he does seem appropriately concerned with it means for humanity that we have centered technology in our lives and ceded so much to it already. The dark possibilities of tech are at the heart of the title […]

Which Witch is the worst Witch?

Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things (Courtney Crumrin, #1) by Ted Naifeh

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Can you like and dislike a book at the same time? I say yes, as the graphic novel Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things (Courtney Crumrin, #1) by Ted Naifeh is exactly that.  And due to that, I am not really sure I want to explore the rest of the books in the various Courtney Crumrin series. Unless, there is a collection of everything…. Well a girl can dream right? There is really nothing likable about any of the characters, even Courtney who we follow through […]

A book to read in bed

Cockroach and Other Stories by Jane Cornes Maclean

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Bingo:  You are here – the author lives in my city and my friend circle.  Jane calls this collection of short stories ficto-memoir, created by slicing off little pieces of her life and frying them up in the spice of fiction to make something delicious.   Within the span of twenty-one tales, some don’t stray far from the woman I know, an Englishwoman who has lived in Australia most of her life, a wife, a mother, a sister, a daughter, who looks at life with insight, […]



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