Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Simple but interesting

The Awesome Human Journal: A Tool Kit for the Tough Days, the Good Days, and All the Days in Between by Nataly Kogan

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CBR15Passport genre   I have almost 590 reviews to hit 15 Cannonballs for Cannonball 15. And while it is possible (vel veeter did fourteen and change in 2019), is it practical for me to have that goal/thought/need/etc? Probably not. However, the reason I started my review off like this is because I was wondering if The Awesome Human Journal: A Tool Kit for the Tough Days, the Good Days, and All the Days in Between would be a good journal for me to have someplace […]

Who You Gonna Call?

Guardian Volume One by priest

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Zhao Yunlan runs the Special Investigations Department in the Ministry of Public Security.  His subordinates include several ghosts, a talking cat, a monk, a half human half snake, and a newbie who has no idea what he’s gotten himself into amongst others.   The cases they deal with the supernatural, and while they can capture those involved, they can’t pass judgement on them.  That duty belongs to the Soul-Executing Emissary.  A case causes Zhao Yunlan’s path to cross with Shen Wei, a professor at Dragon City […]

A Fun Adventure From Childhood

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

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When Sylvia comes to live with her cousin Bonnie at Willoughby Chase, she’s quickly swept up in her cousin’s shenanigans and adventures.  When Bonnie’s parents leave on a sea voyage almost immediately after Sylvia’s arrival, the girls’ governess quickly takes over the manor, firing the servants and dropping the two girls off at a “school” that is more workhouse than school.  It’s up to the two girls to some how escape and make it to London in order to try and contact Bonnie’s parents and […]

I Enjoyed This Book, But I Don’t Remember Much About It

Stars of Chaos Volume 1 by priest

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Chang Geng’s life changes when barbarians attack the small northern border town where’s he’s grown up.  He learns in quick succession that woman he thought was his mother is actually both his aunt and a spy for the barbarians who has poisoned him, he is in fact the Emperor’s missing fourth son, and his worthless lay about godfather is actually the leader of the most powerful military battalion.  Chang Geng is quickly swept up the changing tides and trying to figure out what his future […]

“We have always been more rational than you people.”

Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin

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Bingo: Strange Worlds; Passport: Dystopian science fiction I read this brilliant, darkly funny novelette after hearing about it on an episode of Our Opinions are Correct, the science fiction podcast hosted by Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz, that analysed the impact of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of selfish individualism on the tech industry.  In Rand’s own words: “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as […]

I am the tree and you are the bird. Fly off as you please, you will always come back to sit on my branches.

A Long Way from Douala by Max Lobe

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Pa had brought out our entire stock of beer. Simon, Roger and I had the job of serving. We ran to and fro between the kitchen, the living room and the porch. Our hi-fi pumped out old Makossa hits: our parents’ favorites. A few women neighbors of their generation, also wearing kaba ngondos, had begun shimmying in the empty space at the center of the room. They looked like they were showing off: you can’t dance the Makossa without showing off.” ― Max Lobe, A […]



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