Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

World War V: Part III

City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin

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This is the third and final novel in Cronin’s vampire trilogy (or as I like to think of it: Cronin’s vampire trilogy for people who actually aren’t too fussed on vampires but just enjoy a big epic story). The first novel, ‘The Passage’, introduced us to the vampire plague and then jumped forward 100 years as the last vestiges of humanity desperately try to hold on to their grip on the world. The second novel, ‘The Twelve’, showed how the best and worst of humanity […]

When the End Comes

Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura

Cell by Stephen King

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I recently read two books with apocalyptic overtones. Neither were great but both were eminently readable, if weird and unfocused… Cult X * Well then. It’s almost impossible for a book as popular as Fuminori Nakamura’s Cult X to get anything less than a 3+ star rating on GoodReads. A book usually has enough vociferous defenders who give it gratuitous 5s to put it over the top. That this one was hovering at 2.97 when I picked it up was not a good sign for […]

Ever wonder what a dog is thinking? Now you can find out!

The Last Dog on Earth by Adrian J. Walker, read by Jonathan Aris and David John

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This was a wild ride!  It starts off slow, with just a man and his dog during the apocalypse.  Or so it seems.  Well, it’s fairly dystopian at any rate.  We get the story from both points of view.  The dog, Linekar, is foul-mouthed with a cockney accent.  The man, Reginald Hardy, is a man just trying to avoid change and survive.  They live in a 10th story flat in London, and have stayed there despite the bombs that destroyed most of the city three […]

Station Eleven-a surprisingly optimistic apocalyptic story

Station Eleven by Emily Saint John Mandel

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I admit, when I saw this come up as a featured book for Cannonball Read, I was a bit wary. Not because I was not a fan of the book, I was. However, reading a book about society rebuilding after a devastating plague seemed a bit masochistic during these days of isolation due to COVID-19. But I am glad I did. This books speaks to the resiliency of our species, both from a physical, as well as a cultural standpoint. One of the keys to […]

A realistic look back at surviving the zombie apocalypse

World War Z by Max Brooks

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I started reading this before the world jumped headfirst into its own virus apocalypse, then got a bunch of library books and put it aside, then came back to it in the midst of everything. What a difference a few months makes! First of all, I need everyone to know that the author is the son of Mel Brooks. That totally blew my mind. What interesting dinner conversations that family must have! The zombie apocalypse has come and gone, and the world is recovering. A […]

Dragon Lover

Fire in His Blood by Ruby Dixon

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I’m finally back at the book reviews just in time for Spring! Last year for Cannonball Read 11, I read Ruby Dixon’s Ice Planet Barbarians, which was a steamy hot tale of alien-human with a great mix of humor and heart. I discovered she has another set of books that involves DRAGONS!!! and picked up Fire in His Blood from the library. In the first book of the Fireblood Dragon series, we meet our main character Claudia in jail for scavenging outside the bounds of […]



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