Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Or, The Cheeto-Driven Life of Crows

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

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S.T. the crow (full name Shit Turd) realizes something is deeply wrong with his human, Big Jim, when Jim’s eyeball falls straight out of his head and lands on the ground. Things only get worse from there. The illness affecting Big Jim seems to have struck everyone else in Seattle too, and it’s turned all those MoFos (what Big Jim and S.T. call humans) into mindless horrors that will eat their pets as soon as look at them. S.T., along with Big Jim’s bloodhound Dennis, […]

“The first thing I hate is called a Russian doll. It holds a smaller version of itself inside it, and another inside that and so on. How awful. They are prisoners. I imagine them all screaming in the dark, unable to move or speak. The doll’s face is broad and blankly smiling. It looks so happy to be holding its children captive.”

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

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So after a night where this book sat in my subconscious probably doing things to me, I’m upping my rating to five stars. I can’t stop thinking about it, and the ending did what I want more horror endings to to do for me. There are quite a few people who experience a sort of literary catharsis with the presence of violence and gore, but I am not one of those people (and maybe they don’t even care about catharsis! who knows!). This book has […]



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