Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

This is not the Deadspin writing I was expecting, and I am a million percent ok with that.

How Lucky by Will Leitch

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CBR13Bingo: Rep Daniel lives in Athens, Georgia. He has a job working in customer service for a regional airline, which lets him work at home and set his own hours. He likes his routine: visits with his best friend, football tailgates, and nice mornings out on his porch before work starts for the day. Early one morning, while out on his porch, Daniel sees something strange. He sees a young woman — he assumes she is a student — who doesn’t seem sure about where […]

What Happens When Industries and Tastes Change

Abandoned London by Katie Wignall

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CBR13 Bingo: Machinery: So many of the abandoned buildings once housed great bits of industry — including a giant flour mill and sewage treatment plants. Best for: Anyone looking for an interesting if somewhat bleak coffee table photography book. In a nutshell: Author Wignall captures some of the haunting images of buildings abandoned throughout this giant city. Worth quoting: “The land was bought by Lendlease property developers in 2010 and the estate was demolished between 2011 and 2014. There were 284 ‘affordable homes’ (priced between […]

And so it begins…with a Spike!

Haikyu!! by Haruichi Furudate

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Bingo 1: Sportsball Haikyu!! Translates to “Volleyball!!”, thus this series is fitting for the Sportsball square. Here I present volumes 1-2. In most every way this is a standard school sports story. There are two different guys, they were rivals, but now they have to figure out how to get along. One has some natural talent but not training and a lot of enthusiasm (Hinata), and it’s been his dream to be like a kid he saw on tv playing in a volleyball championship game; […]

“‘Willfully withholding. Unnecessarily inaccessible. Not delivering on its premise.'”

Bunny by Mona Awad

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You know those moments when you’re battling a fever, you’re in and out of fitful sleep, and you’re not entirely sure what is real and what is imagined? Those fever tinged experiences that you just want to be over but time stretches way beyond what it should be allowed to stretch? That was what reading Bunny was like. Samantha is a Narrative Arts graduate student at Warren, a prestigious university known for its experimental approach to both pedagogy and writing style it tries to pull out […]

I am shocked, shocked to discover that the contributions of Black Women have been overlooked

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall

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UnCannon: centering the experiences of a Black, female- and queer-identifying scholar as she dips into some unknown history around slave revolts! This short(ish) graphic novel started out at a three star review but slowly started climbing as I got more into it—part of me feels like this must have been because I have to remind myself how to read graphic novels every time I start one, especially one like this where the drawings are themselves telling a bit of a story. The subtitle gives away […]

How the hell did I miss the book club?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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So anyway – I read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for the #CannonBookClub back in April. And then I proceeded to never find the link to the chat and completely forget about all things book club. And then I didn’t know if I could post a review before hand so I was overthinking everything and got so behind on reviews that I now have 8 books to review. Wow… talk about slacking. So I’m welcoming myself back 🙂 Now on to The Hitchhiker’s Guide […]



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