Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Carl and Donut’s Guide to Dungeon Crawling as Reality TV

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

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I’ve had Dungeon Crawler Carl on my TBR for a while (picked it up as retail therapy not too long ago, but it’s been on a list for good bit longer), and then there was a spike of reviews on here, so now here’s my take. I kind of do get the hype; there’s humor but it’s kind of dark by necessity, there’s hope in the midst of tragedy and chaos, and it’s mostly pretty entertaining. The basic story feels kind of like a mish-mash […]

Bloom and Gloopy: Buddies in dimensions

Skip by Molly Mendoza

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I don’t know if you’re like me, but I can judge a book by its cover. I usually say, “Nope, not for me.” Or, “Yeah baby! Sign me up!” And while I have missed the mark on a few (a yes turned into a no), I am usually on the money with what I will like. Therefore, when I found Skip by Molly Mendoza, I figured out my interest early on. The cover (in the catalog I was looking at) looked like someone had spilled […]

Doom Thorax has the Power (of reading)

Doom's Day Camp by Joshua Hauke

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I honestly was surprised at how much I liked the graphic novel, Doom’s Day Camp by Joshua Hauke. At first, I felt it was just going to be “dumb humor” or “not for everyone offbeat and off color humor” but most of it turned out to be pretty classy. (Okay! Okay! There is one earth shattering f**t, but it did save the day! And frankly, f**ts are funny if they happen to someone else.) The ideas, of course, have been done before (a nerd/uncool kid […]

Catnip For People Who Love the End of the World

Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan

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I’m drawn to climate catastrophe and dystopian novels the same way some people are drawn to horror or crime stories: seeing fictional representations of my worst fears are somehow calming to me. Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan was compared to Station Eleven and Severence on its Goodread page, so I put it in my library queue figuring it would basically be like catnip for me.  Walk the Vanished Earth is difficult to describe, because it encompasses so much: seven generations, two planets, 200 […]

Life… uh… finds a way

The Last by Hanna Jameson

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An American history professor is in a hotel in Switzerland for a conference, along with his colleagues and a melting pot of holidaying families, travellers, and staff, when the bombs begin to fall. As the hotel patrons and staff begin to panic, many flee but a handful remain. These lost souls attempt to band together as the clouds in the sky turn orange and the rain turns radioactive. Cut off from the world as the internet fails and power supply is cut, they begin to […]

Looks like I’ll be gorging myself on these

Feed by Mira Grant

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Feed is a stonking little zombie novel which is also the opening entry in a series, and one that I enjoyed so much that I immediately downloaded the rest on finishing.  Feed is set twenty years after the Rising, when George Romero films stopped being horror films and started being survival guides. Humanity found a cure for the common cold, as well as a cure for cancer. But when the two combined, it created the Kellis-Amberlee virus and now everyone in the world is infected […]



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