Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves”

Confessions by Kinae Minato

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  This is the first translated Japanese thriller I’ve read, and it was a pretty good start for the genre. It’s a story of revenge and the collateral damage that comes from it. There was one major plot point which baffled me, which I will address later in the review. The story is told in a stark, straightforward manner with each chapter coming from another character’s point of view. Yuko Moriguchi, a teacher and single mother, addresses her middle school class on the last day […]

I… What?

Find Me by Alafair Burke

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I finished this book yesterday and I’ve forgotten what this was about already. Oh, sorry, you need more from a review?  I guess it was okay.  Really, guys, I’m not sure what else to tell you. It wasn’t terrible, it wasn’t super interesting, and it was forgettable.  Alright. Fine.  It’s about a girl named Hope. A decade or so ago, Hope was in a car crash, driving a stolen vehicle. She had no idea and woke up in the hospital with complete memory loss and […]

That’s Showbusiness?

Complicit by Winnie M Li

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I’m really impressed with how much Winnie M Li was trying to accomplish with this book. For the most part, I think she pulled it off. Because I had it in my head how this was going to go when I read it: unassuming young female on a movie set gets assaulted by a Harvey Weinstein clone. But it’s really more than that. In living up to its title, Winnie M Li shows how the whole system is wretched, including Sarah, nominally the protagonist, who […]

Horror 101 and Comedy 102

Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky

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Boys Weekend is Horror 101 with Comedy 102. The mix of GLBTQ themes, friendship, love, family, and an odd cult-religion all play together with first the idea of humanity, society roles and more that is taking front stage. You can take the action as a straightforward  horror/thriller story or take it for a deeper meaning, but however you take it know there are possible triggers, such as violence, guns, sexual situations, visual gross-outs and blood. Lots of blood. Totally not for everyone, but everyone might […]

Zut Alors

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

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Chronic fuck-up Jess has once again chronically fucked something up, so she decides to do the only sensible thing she can: hightail it to the French capital, where her brother resides. Her brother has assured her she’s always welcome in that way people have when they don’t mean it, but though Jess isn’t expecting a particularly warm welcome, she’s surprised that her brother is nowhere to be found. Nevertheless, she lets herself into his fancy apartment, hoping he’ll come home soon. He doesn’t, and soon […]

Different person, same love

Every Day: The Graphic Novel by David Levithan

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When you’ve worked in kids and young adult books as long as I have, you learn some “big names” of the biz. One I knew I never had to read (but probably should because they were good) was David Levithan. I recommended them on repetition alone. Therefore, when the opportunity came to read Every Day: The Graphic Novel I knew the Reading Gods were telling me to go for it. First, a graphic novel (a favorite reading genre for several years now) and second, David […]



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