Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Don’t worry about any of this stuff, okay? It’s all just adult junk that doesn’t mean anything.”

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki

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This One Summer is a re-read for me. It is also the book I have read in the past few years specifically from the Banned Book List put out by the ALA that makes me scratch my head the most. It is because this is the book that hit #1 most challenged in 2016 and was why I read it in 2017. It then came back to the top ten in 2018. It did not make sense to me then, and it makes little sense […]

“Big Pancake doesn’t want you to know this, but making pancakes is easier than you think.”

The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don’t Die by Zilla Novikov, Rachel A. Rosen, Marten Norr (Illustrator)

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When my brain is cooperating, I enjoy cooking. But as a neurodivergent person who lives by herself and absolutely has no idea what is presently in my refrigerator at any time (yes, even immediately after going to the grocery store) keeping myself fed has always been an interesting challenge that I attempt to hide from the world around me. I also tend to get stuck in eating the same thing over and over as many autistic folks do. Add to that the problem that meal […]

Relationship Between a Vampire and a Werewolf

Fangs by Sarah Andersen

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One of the Read Harder tasks this year is to read a completed web-comic. Not having too much of an idea where to start I did some internet sleuthing and came up with Sarah Andersen’s Fangs. I have been a casual fan of Andersen’s work, particularly her Sarah’s Scribbles series that so often appear on my social media feeds. With the information at hand, this seemed like an excellent solution to finding just the right sort of book for me right now to fulfill this task. […]

Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes? Sexy, sexy, snakes!

Entranced by the Basilisks by Lillian Lark

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It’s been a long time since I posted a review, and even longer since I read this book, so I’m a little fuzzy on the details. Life got in the way, but I have a little more spare time now, so prepare for a deluge of reviews of books I read as far back as April! This is the third book in the Monstrous Matches series, but you don’t have to have read the previous two to understand this one. You should though, because they […]

“This book’s findings should temper our estimation of the freedom we have to change ourselves.”

Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism by Schneur Zalman Newfield

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CBR15Bingo: North America (the book focuses mainly on the Satmar and Lubavitch communities in New York and New Jersey.) I really enjoyed Degrees of Separation, which examines the experience of leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (specifically the Lubavitch and Satmar communities) and how those who leave form their identities during and afterwards, as well as the long-term ramifications. This is an academic text and so there is a lot of sociology terminology to work through, but Newfield did this study based on interviews so there are a […]

When you think you’ve joined the good guys but you’ve really just joined a cult

Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat

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CBR15Bingo: Relation “ship” (cargo ships and relationships) Bingo: (left to right: Dwelling to On the Air) Will Kempen is on the run and on a mission: find the man who had his mother murdered and take him down. Unfortunately, his mission leads him directly into the hands of those who want him dead. After being rescued off of a sinking ship by Violet, the two of them are taken back to the hall of the Stewards (protectors of the light and fighters against the Dark […]



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