Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Hope the TV Show Brings This Book to Life

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Finished on May 2, took 9 days to read 3 stars on Goodreads Genre: Fiction Rating 2/3 Fiction  There were so many reasons why I was excited to read Daisy Jones & the Six. Several of my favorite blogs, podcasts, and friends recommended this book. I loved the author’s earlier novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. And most notably, earlier this year Daisy Jones got the ultimate bump when it got picked by Reese Witherspoon’s […]

This Must Be the Place

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

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Another Brooklyn is not a very long book, and I read it in a single sitting. Even as I was reading it I was looking forward to the next time I get to read it. It’s the story of August, who moves to Brooklyn in the 70s with her father and brother after her mother dies. She meets and befriends three other girls: Gigi, Sylvia, and Angela. The book starts with August’s return to Brooklyn as an adult when her father dies, where she runs […]

Luke Cage meets noir meets The Diviners meets more please!

Abbott by Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivelä

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Abbott is a brief, five-issue series set in 1970s Detroit about journalist Elena Abbott, lone black female reporter at the Detroit Daily. Abbott prefers to delve into the stories the paper’s board would rather not see printed. She’s recently getting heat for her piece on the death of a black teen at the hands of police, but so far she’s been protected by her loyal boss. She has a new case on the horizon and it’s a grisly one.  A mutilated police horse is found […]

The Truth About Cats and Werewolves

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I’ve been in the mood for classic horror paperbacks lately. I recently read Whitley Strieber’s Hunger trilogy and liked the first book, so thought I’d try two more of his earlier works. His first book. The Wolfen, was written in 1978. It follows two New York City police officers, Rebecca Neff and George Wilson, who try to solve a seemingly unsolvable case — the brutal attack of two fellow officers. All the signs seem to point to an animal attack, but not just any ordinary animal. […]

Cop culture in the 1970s

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After all the violence in the last book, I almost didn’t bother with this one; however, it was much less bloody but not without its gritty realism.  The book is set in the 1970s, with a madman on the loose targeting cops and a police force that is in turmoil.  This is the world that Kate Murphy has stepped into – it’s her first day on the job and she isn’t prepared for the harsh reality of a macho environment.  There aren’t many women on […]

Some People Call Him The Space Vampire

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Apparently they made a movie about this called Lifeforce but I’ve never seen it.  It sounds like from reading reviews that the movie is way better than the book, so maybe you want to go watch the movie instead of reading this book? There are some astronauts who find an alien ship that is full of what looks like corpses in suspended animation, and they start trying to study them.  The bodies are humanoid but are obviously alien and seem to be dead.  But then […]



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