Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Hello and welcome to the Galactic Peacekeepers Society…… We come in peace

Ami Moon and the Galactic Peacekeepers: Book One Volume 1 by Frances Lee

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The powers that be do not want me to write a review for Ami Moon and the Galactic Peacekeepers: Book One Volume 1 by Frances Lee. I had a long review typed out,  when I went to post, I hit something and the entire thing was erased. I then tried multiple times to restart it and it kept screwing up. I finally got it into a document and then couldn’t remember what I wanted to say/what I had said!. Wracking my brain, I came up […]

Lucky Tomorrow by Deborah Jiang-Stein

Lucky Tomorrow by Deborah Jiang-Stein

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This is a collection of short stories by Deborah Jiang-Stein. The main reason why I just gave the overall collection 5 stars was that although it took me a bit to get used to how she curated this collection, it started to resonate with me after a while. We follow a “main” character so to speak, but some of the other stories were so short that I didn’t […]

The Glen, which the keeper’s daughter was seen to enter, but never known to quit, still frowns darkly as of yore; while an ineradicable bloodstain on the oaken stair yet bids defiance to the united energies of soap and sand

The Ingoldsby Legends Vol. 1 by Thomas Ingoldsby (Richard Harris Barham)

The Ingoldsby Legends Vol. 2 by Thomas Ingoldsby (Richard Harris Barham)

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Thomas Ingoldsby was the alias of Richard Harris Barham, a Cleric for the Church of England. In between his sermons (he at one time had a minor canonry at St. Paul’s Cathedral), Barham collected Kentish folklore, which he transcribed as pastiches as “The Ingoldsby Legends” in Bentley’s Miscellany, an English magazine edited by Charles Dickens. Most of the stories are written in prose, poking fun at famous plays, books, and people of the day, and were illustrated by various artists such as George Cruikshank (a […]

My comfort read

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Season 10, Vol. 2 by Jeremy Whitley

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As a reader, especially one that specializes in children’s and young adult reads, I like to think I mix my genres up, or at least my subjects. I know I have been on a graphic novel kick for several years now, but they come in all shapes and sizes and subjects so I can find almost anything I am in the mood for. And ages ago I found a My Little Pony (contemporary) collection of several stories. It was My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic […]

Are You Happy? by Lori Ostlund

Are You Happy? by Lori Ostlund

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Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Well this is weird. This is a short story collection I enjoyed from beginning to end. Some of the stories were fairly long, some were short, but all hit me in a place of just missing people. I think the title, “Are You Happy?” is asking a question and one wonders if it was a question the author wanted to ask certain characters. Most of the nine stories focus […]

Jazz Baby

Where All Good Flappers Go: Essential Stories of the Jazz Age by David M. Earle (Editor)

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The flapper girl is an icon of the Roaring Twenties, appearing in plenty of novels and films of the era. In this anthology, Pushkin Press brings together some contemporary short stories about the flapper which were published in magazines and papers of the time that celebrated these young women as a mirror of the times. I haven’t read much literature from the 1920s beyond the obligatory The Great Gatsby, but I’ve always found it intriguing how quickly social mores seemed to swing round during this […]



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