Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Courage isn’t knowing everything will be fine. It’s knowing everything might not be, and doing what needs to be done anyway, because someone has to.”

Sleep No More (Ocotber Daye #17) by Seanan McGuire

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Where do I begin? Especially as seeing as I can’t even give a synopsis of the plot because if you haven’t read the series yet (or haven’t gotten this far), the plot of this book is just one large, glaring spoiler. The ending of this book is great(ish); the majority of the book though I want to shake Toby so hard her teeth rattle. Just shake her, and then keep shaking her, and then maybe slap her upside the head. Yes, I know it’s not […]

Snow on a cover makes me emotionally nervous

Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt

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Orbiting Jupiter This was a short novel, bordering on novella. I don’t know where it was recommended to me but I know that any book with a cover in winter is almost certainly going to be sad so I was at least somewhat prepared. The book is from the perspective of a young boy, Jack, whose family brings in a foster kid, Joseph. Joseph is 14 and was placed in foster care after a violent and drug induced incident with a teacher. Joseph also has […]

Small Misunderstandings and Major Desillusions

Broken Harbour by Tana French

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Primarily, reviews are about preference: did I like this book? Was it good? Usually, the two converge; what is or what isn’t good is, after all, in the eye of the beholder. Occasionally, though, these two interlinked questions separate themselves. So what do you do when a book is very good, but you’re not sure you liked it? Experienced detective Michael “Scorcher” Kennedy is called to investigate an unusually grisly crime scene: at a half-finished housing development – abandoned during the financial crisis – a […]



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