Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Autumnal Reading

1979 by Val McDermid

The Survivors by Jane Harper

De Metsiers by Hugo Claus

Normal People by Sally Rooney

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After not having read much for a couple of weeks (work has been hell), I once again found myself in a place with terrible internet connectivity and a pile of books. Worse things have happened, particularly because the books I ended up selecting all turned out to be pretty dang good. 1979 (Val McDermid) **** Allie Burns is a woman in a man’s world. An Oxbridge graduate, she works as a journalist for a small Scottish newspaper. She hopes to make it big but so […]

This book is MY little pumpkin pie

You're My Little Pumpkin Pie by Nicola Edwards

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It’s not even fall yet, you might be thinking to yourself. Why are we already taking the plunge into cute and cozy autumnal books? Because I’m trying to mentally will it to be fall already. I’m so 100% done with the 80+ degree temperatures that melt my phone mount off my dash in the car (twice now). Give me sweater weather already. Inject pumpkin spice everything into my veins. I’ve already stocked up on more pumpkin spice food stuffs than is probably healthy. Pumpkin pie […]

Bingeworthy

Idol by Kristen Callihan

Fall by Kristen Callihan

Exposed by Kristen Callihan

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I felt a little bruised and battered by some of the books I’ve read recently. I have a bunch of books I’m really excited to read, and a bunch of books that are my happy place, but none of them were working for me. I saw several people raving about Scottie in Kristen Callihan’s Managed. What I remember about Scottie is that I loathed him. I thought it might be worth revisiting him, but obviously I would have to reread Idol first, because I couldn’t […]

Why, yes: I do like fall best. It is just the superior season. I won’t be entertaining arguments.

Sophie's Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller

Sharing the Bread: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Story by Pat Zietlow Miller

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Some kids are quirky; Different. In Sophie’s Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller, Illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf, Sophie is one of those kids. Instead of letting the squash her parents bought at the farmer’s market be relegated to their dinner table, she decides instead that the squash is just the right size to love; to “bounce on her knee;” to give a face, name Bernice & become her constant companion. After a while, & many library trips, garden somersaults, baby bottles, hugs and kisses later, nature […]

I keep writing titles for this post and they’re all crap, just read Pumpkinheads, you’ll thank me later

Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell (author), Faith Erin Hicks (artist)

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Fall is my favorite season.  I love pretty much everything about it and going to a pumpkin patch is high on my list of must do activities.  When I heard Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks talking about Pumpkinheads at a comic convention, I knew that this book must be mine and it did not disappoint!  The pumpkin patch is just an endearing setting (albeit one I ardently wish I could visit and inspired by a real pumpkin patch Rowell visited growing up), what makes this […]

A Classic Ray Bradbury Story

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradury

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There are books that you feel you know through one medium or another (television, movies, radio, etc.) which you then read and find that it is completely different than what you expected. This was the case for me with the brilliant novel Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. I had been familiar with the story through the 1983 film, which scared the bezeesus out of me when I was a kid. The original novel, however, is so much better. The story focuses on […]



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