Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I was just saying I don’t do re-reads usually, but then I went and read this again.

Mage and the Endless Unknown by S.J. Miller

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In October 2023 I read Mage and the Endless Unknown by S.J. Miller. I thought I had read it before when I saw it on the (sadly) to be returned cart at work in May 2025. But I figured even if I had read it, I didn’t remember when and a second reading wouldn’t hurt. Fairly quickly I remembered a lot of it, but then there were places that I did not remember at all (I am looking at you the pretty-not-so-nice ghosts) and wondered […]

What lurks in the corn

The Girl in the Corn by Jason Offutt

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I’m starting my review of The Girl in the Corn, with the that there are big time TRIGGERS in this book. After all, it’s a horror book and therefore there are several horror images. Perhaps they could be more so, but even what they do show (such as the murder of a child, the brutal murder of the dog and several other people, plus drug use/abuse, guns, kidnapping, sex, and what I consider rape) is not pleasant to say the least, and, of course could […]

A return to the beginning. Sort of.

A Terrible Fall of Angels by Laurell K. Hamilton

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A Terrible Fall of Angels is the first in a new series by Laurell K. Hamilton. It is much more akin to her early Anita Blake novels than anything she has written since Narcissus in Chains (including the Merry Gentry novels). Centering on Det. Zaniel “Havoc” Havelock, a detective in the Los Angeles police department’s Metaphysical Coordination Unit, aka the Heaven and Hell Unit. This is a Los Angeles where angels and demons walk amongst us, and children are taken from their parents at a […]

Fun discovering new authors

Heroes and Villains by Lewis Shiner

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I love discovering new authors. A few months ago, I signed up for a grab bag of books from a publisher and this was included in the pack. I saved it until the end, as I was unfamiliar with the author, now I wish I would have moved it towards the top of the queue. Heroes and Villains is a collection of 4 short stories, all dealing with clear protagonists and adversaries. In some ways it reads like a classic comic book (and I mean […]

Forty-seven hours of book!

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So this is a newer, more inclusive, unabridged version of The Stand.  There are some extra details that weren’t in the original book.  Having never read the original book, I will not know the difference.  The audiobook (which I borrowed from my library and downloaded immediately!) is forty-seven hours.  I’m determined to finish it in less than forty-seven days! I’m going to split up my review into a bunch of parts, because with a book this long, I don’t want stuff to get missed. OVERALL […]

The Stand: Not a book you want to read when coming down with a cold…

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So my first proper book I’ve read this year is The Stand. To be honest, I can’t believe I haven’t read it before. I tried about ten years ago, when I was probably early on in my undergrad, and… just couldn’t get through it. I think I got stuck on an early Larry chapter at some point (because let’s face it, he is The Worst) and just found I didn’t care enough about any of the characters to go on. This time, though, I was hooked. A […]



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