Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

If it has a sequel I’ll read it

Heebie Jeebies by Matthew Erman

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 cbr16bingo  Bananas  I could have picked disco as there is a disco dancing math teacher, but I picked Bananas just because the whole thing is nuts. It is Humor 101. This should have ice cream and nuts and cherry on top. It is funny, it is sweet, it is not fattening, and you might even lose a few pounds laughing your buns off!  Heebie Jeebies by Matthew Erman and illustrated by Shelby Criswell is not my OMG favorite ever book, and is more of a […]

Continuing the Grishaverse

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

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I enjoyed both of these books, especially Crooked Kingdom, though I didn’t think they were a drastic improvement over the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which surprised me a bit since so many people seem to prefer this duology. I think they’re almost equally good, with the duology slightly edging out the trilogy. In Six of Crows, we meet Kaz Brekker, who essentially runs a crew called the Dregs. He gets the opportunity of a lifetime when Jan Van Eck offers a lot of money for […]

Thunder Down Under

Lapse by Sarah Thornton

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Read as part of CBR16Bingo: scandal. The main character is on the run to this small town after a fiasco in her past life and has to deal with a fiasco in her current one.  I grabbed this one maybe because of Ted Lasso? I don’t remember but I feel like I read somewhere that this was pitched as a Ted Lasso-esque coach solving a mystery. That’s not really the case though. Clementine Jones, though she is similarly running from her past, is not the […]

Cognitive Wisdom Teeth

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

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I have a solid track record with Amanda Montell books. I rated her first two books, Wordslut and Cultish four stars and I talked about them a lot in my non-online life. To the point that my coworker who listens to Montell’s podcast, Sounds Like a Cult, convinced my other coworkers to pre-order her third book for my birthday this year (and get me to start listening to the podcast).   I wasn’t sure what to expect with The Age of Magical Overthinking even with […]

My body was built to wage war.

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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“Just smile and nod,” Gwen says. “How hard is that?” “Very,” I say. “I hate half these people. I hate half of all people” ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back CBR16 Bingo: Games It’s July 7th and I’m in the middle of a hot tennis summer. After finishing Carrie Soto is Back, I watched Challengers. I’m also reading a WIP fanfic that has hot people playing tennis, falling in love while playing tennis, tennis as a metaphor for failure, redemption, communication (you get […]

The Unforgiving Desert

Journal of the Dead by Jason Kersten

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CBR16 Bingo – Fiasco: David and Raffi’s trip into Rattlesnake Canyon is an utter fiasco from start to finish. When authorities find Raffi Kodikian barely alive four days after he and his best friend David Coughlin got lost in an desert canyon, they make a grim discovery. Raffi claims to have stabbed David to death in a mercy killing, but the police suspect the truth may be darker. It was awkward on my way out of the library with this book, because another patron, intrigued […]



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