Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Evil Geniuses Come in All Ages

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

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Bingo: Culture. This book covers many aspects of fairy culture. I haven’t read any fantasy in a long time, so I picked up the YA novel Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer. It was a light read, but I enjoyed it. Artemis Fowl is a twelve year old boy who comes from a long line of crime lords. He is extraordinarily smart and devious. At the start of the book, he manages to get his hands on the fairies’ golden book, which holds all their secrets. […]

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

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I swear, this is why I can’t read classics, most of them I read, I don’t like or am completely confused about. I only read this for a Bingo square and my other choice has a 10 week hold on it and I didn’t want to spend the money on a book that I may not like. Anyway, here’s my review of Metamorphosis or what I like to call, that dude really turns into a bug and it’s just pages of this? Metamorphosis follows a salesman named Gregor […]

You’re not really famous if anyone still likes you.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Isn’t that the very definition of power? Watching people kill themselves over something that means nothing to you? ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo …do yourself a favor and learn to grab life by the balls, dear. Don’t be so tied up in trying to do the right thing when the smart thing is so painfully clear. ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo CBR17 Bingo: Favorite Taylor Jenkins Reid is one of my favorite authors. This book […]

“The only thing every love story really has in common is that it’s worth it.”

Not in My Book by Katie Holt

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Here’s the problem – this is a well-written book. The craft is there. But… I just couldn’t care about what is happening with the characters and kept having to make myself pick it back up between reading other books, which is not at all how I normally approach Romance books. There were times where the characterization felt inconsistent, in the early parts of the book I felt the need to double check how old Rosie was supposed to be. I liked it better than The Maiden and Her Monster because while I felt they shared […]

“She wanted to read stories that had been written with care, by a writer who’d wrestled with words, who might have sworn at the computer and procrastinated by cleaning the entire apartment and furiously dictated notes in the middle of the night”

Magically Generated by Jackie Lau

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Invariably, something that is bothering an author is going to make its way into the book they’re writing. That something for Jackie Lau in Magically Generated is GenAI. While I am largely on the side that Lau takes via her main character’s rants, I thought the note was hit too often and it wasn’t necessary because Lau already had enough character depth with Nora to have the reader empathize with her “done with the nonsense and not trusting anyone new or anything on the internet” vibe she is giving off strongly as this Christmas novella gets started (and throughout, really).    I love […]

The only gift we can give humans is not absolute victory, but instead a world with less fear

The Night Eaters, vols. 2-3 by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

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Bingo Row 3 – N Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda are probably best known as the writer and artist for Monstress – an ongoing gorgeous and overwhelming fantasy comic series. Their collaboration on the Night Eaters is different enough to not be another Monstress, but similar enough that it’s clearly the same creative team: The art is dreamy and fantasy-conducive, even when it’s set in modern day North America and not a high fantasy world; the characters are mean and unlikeable, which makes them oddly […]



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