Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The face of the cyborg and detective

Model Five Murder: a sci-fi noir by Tan Juan Gee

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When one is like me and in the position of having emails with online reader links attached, you can read a lot of different things. Most of which you probably asked for, but once in a while you get one that was just free-sent. Or you forgot you requested it. Model Five Murder: a sci-fi noir by Tan Juan Gee was one of those either free-sent or I forgot I requested.  As said, I read it via an online reader copy. And I can read […]

And in conclusion maybe we skip some bits and pretend we knew all along

Noragami vol 27 by Adachitoka

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 Noragami series finale, volume 27 wrapped up most threads, but parts were rushed. The thing that bothered me most was the initial connection between Hiyori and Yato that got ignored for a good chunk of the middle and final acts suddenly gets relevant again, and it doesn’t work with such a major gap. I’m also not sure what happened with Bishamon and Kazuma, but suddenly there’s a scene with them just chatting in the immediate aftermath of a zombie apocalypse (that’s the nearest equivalent, even […]

A Desperate Race in a Dystopian World

The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker

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Ed is an average English guy living in Scotland with his wife and two young kids. He’s probably depressed, is definitely out of shape, and is starting to wonder if he drinks too much. He wakes up early after one too many glasses of wine to the cries of his infant son, Arthur. After getting him his bottle, he takes Arthur on a walk to the local shop to pick up the newspaper. But the streets are strangely deserted, the shop is closed, and the […]

An old 16 millimeter camera and a real fantasy world

Final Cut by Charles Burnsa

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I gave Final Cut by Charles Burnsa a four for the illustrations. They are complicated and straightforward. The story is complex to the point of almost not understanding it. There is no real action (unless you count the two couples who get down and dirty with some mad monkey love), yet a lot is going on. There is language, drug use, alcoholism, nudity, and vomit. There is actually a story behind why I wanted to read this book. And I have no idea what it […]

“We’re all born naked and the rest is drag” (RuPaul) And this novel SLAYS

Donutella Hamachi and the Library Avengers by Kim Chi, Stephan Lee, and Utomaru

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The novel/part graphic novel or novel with several illustrations that make up the narrator’s special world in Donutella Hamachi and the Library Avengers started out strong. Then Kim Chi, Stephan Lee, and Utomaru’s story started to drag. Pun intended. But in all seriousness, I was just as upset as the kids when I learned that the DragQueen story hour (that I had never seen/had been canceled before the book started) had been Karen-cancelled. I was rooting for Jae Han and their friends to find themselves, […]

The fame, the wealth, the surveillance system in her body

Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase

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I started Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase sometime in early 2025. It took me until March 30, 2025 to read. Not because it was a bad book, necessarily,  but because it was a dense, hard read. There were a lot of descriptions of what was happening (even if it was just trying to get out of bed, let alone the technical parts), cultural references and even the way of speaking that was not what I was used to. The idea of a future where we […]



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