Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who live with shame, and those who die from it.”

Lone Women by Victor LaValle

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CBR Bingo – Violence Tis the season to be a little spooked! Full scaredy cat disclosure: I am not a huge horror fan, completely eschewing the genre in both film and television, but I can get down with some scary books. Maybe it’s because my imagination isn’t as vivid as images on the screen, so sometimes I like to live on the literary edge. Many of my friends are big into having the bejeebus scared out of them, so good for a recommendation, which is […]

“Sometimes I feel like my brain is a machine built by someone who lost the instruction manual.”

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

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I haven’t often re-read books in the past decade as I’ve gone on my Cannonball journey. But sometimes I revisit an old favorite, or earlier books in a series before continuing with the newly published. Due to my personal commitment to reading banned and challenged books it has also meant that our Banned Book Week book clubs have included re-reads. I try to review the re-reads on their own merits – what was the reading experience this time. But in the case of Gender Queer my […]

Audiobooks, take me away!

Thank You For Listening by Julia Whelan

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A hundred years or so ago, I had an office job I hated that also had a horribly long commute. Desperate for entertainment, I started checking audiobooks out of the library. Suddenly my 45-minute drive was filled with stories and the drive didn’t feel nearly as long as it was. Audiobooks have come a long way since 2007. Now there are multi-cast recordings, graphic audio adaptations with sound effects, and celebrity memoirs narrated by the actual celebrities who wrote them. Julia Whelan is a giant […]

Sara Cate can do no wrong for me

The Anti-Hero by Sara Cate

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Adam Goode is the eldest son of the most prominent preacher in Austin. Think Joel Osteen’s level of mega-church. Adam writes sermons for his father and is seen by everyone as his future successor. All of this blows up in his face, however, when he finds out his father is a member and part owner of a local sex club. Adam then decides to stop trying to be the “good boy” everyone sees him as, and starts filming sex tapes with a tattoed, pink-haired girl […]

I Will Read Anything With Dragons!

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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Fourth Wing is the story of Violet Sorrengail, a cadet in the Basgiath War College. She was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, but her mother, a general, decided that she had to enter the Rider Quadrant. DRAGON RIDERS? I AM SO IN! A lot of Cadets die during the training, and Violet isn’t physically up to a lot of the challenges, because she has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). That is never explicitly stated in the book, but a close friend of mine has it, so […]

As lovely as a book about imminent death can be

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

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I cannot tell you how you will survive without me. I cannot tell you how to mourn me. I cannot convince you to not feel guilty if you forget the anniversary of my death, or if you realize days or weeks or months have gone by without thinking about me. I just want you to live. ― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End I guess I could call this energy freedom. No one will be around to judge me tomorrow. No one will […]



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