Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Why settle for just one apocalypse when you can have two?

Deadline (Newsflesh, No 2) by Mira Grant

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Warning: Spoilers for Feed, the first book in the Newsflesh series are below. Click away now if you haven’t read it. The aftermath of the events of Feed have really done a number on Shaun Mason. Shooting your beloved sister as she turns into a zombie will do that to you. It’ll also have her setting up shop in your head for you to talk aloud to, lending credence to the popular theory that you’ve well and truly lost your marbles. But what Shaun hasn’t […]

Deliverance

Severance by Ling Ma

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Severance meanders; take that for what it is and don’t expect more from it and it becomes a valuable exploration of memory in contrast to the present. It’s for people who live in cities and love walking them, both familiar and unfamiliar parts. It’s for people who work because they need to do something, anything, nevermind, what it actually is. It’s for immigrants and people who feel trapped between more than one place, who have matured over states and provinces and cities and across lines. […]

The Dreamers – Wait, What?

The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

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A mysterious sleeping sickness hits a small town in California. This is the first act of an apocalyptic novel that doesn’t quite get off the ground, or at least, doesn’t get off the ground in the way I have come to expect from an apocalyptic novel. I couldn’t put this down and read the whole thing in two days because I was excited to see what happened.  I picked it up to begin with because the front cover has praise from Emily St. John Mandel, […]

3 Little, 2 Little, 1 Little Indian

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

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Just finished this short novel and I’m honestly on the fence about it. Frenchie is one of several Indigenous natives on a northward trek across a hostile, post-apocalypse North America. In many ways, I find lots of parallels to the world of The Handmaid’s Tale, in that Frenchie and his small tribe are beset on all sides by a over-powerful and desperate state government and Indian turncoats working for the government. The government is working hard to corral all indigenous peoples into schools and clinics, […]

These Virtues are Formed in Man by His Doing the Actions

Severance by Ling Ma

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“I couldn’t see myself as a product coordinator forever, coordinating Bibles, shaving razors, Nike sneakers, or whatever, from my desk in New York to various plants across Southeast Asia. Just because you’re adequately good at something doesn’t mean that’s what you should do.” On the surface of it—introverted young woman absorbed by her career struggles to survive a plague-ridden world—this book’s premise isn’t particularly innovative. Turns out it’s all in the execution. This finely crafted novel fully deserves the flotilla of awards it gathered in […]

2nd Bingo!

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In preparation for the upcoming new Amazon series, I decided to reread “Good Omens.” It’s probably been about a decade since I picked this up the first time, and while there were many parts that I thoroughly re-enjoyed, there were other parts that let me down. And not because it’s bad, but just because we’re getting farther and farther away from many of the contemporary nuances and details that were hilarious in the 2000s. Sadly, as time marches on, much of the ironic nuance in […]



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