Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Wordless Comic Means No Fun Quote Review Title

A Sea of Love by Wilfred Lupano, Gregory Panaccione (illustrator)

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This is a book that only came to my attention because I had a Read Harder task to complete and nothing on my current 600+ Want to Read shelf on Goodreads had anything that fit the bill. This is, to the best of my knowledge, the first wordless comic I’ve ever read as an adult.   This is the second book that I tried for this task, as the first ended up not actually being wordless and I returned it to the library (Google is […]

“When you love a thing too much, it is a special kind of pain to show it to others and to see that it is lacking.”

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

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When Fiat.Luxury reviewed When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain I went to my library to put in a hold and discovered that we had both it and the first in the cycle, The Empress of Salt & Fortune available as audiobooks. I was on the hunt for audiobooks to keep me company on my commute so instead of just requesting When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain I went ahead and requested The Empress of Salt & Fortune as well.   The Empress of Salt […]

Magical Realism Dumplings

Time Loops & Meet Cutes by Jackie Lau

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Time loop stories are not my favorite genre so when Jackie Lau announced last year that Time Loops & Meet Cutes would be the title of her next book published by Atria Books, I took note but hadn’t planned on prioritizing it in my reading. Then I was sent an ARC and my curiosity and trust in Lau pushed me to accept it and get reading.   When we meet Noelle Tom, she is an overworked, underpaid, chronically in her own head person who doesn’t have […]

What’s in your pockets right now?

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close by Hannah Carlson

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This one started out strong and just kind of lost steam for me. Informative, excellent images, but I probably would have broken up the chapters differently.  I need more words for a Cannonball Read review, you say? Oh. I’ll keep going then.   Material culture history is a fascinating way to unpack a time period and really get a feel for what life was really like and the complicated web that leads to our recorded history, and not what nonsense humans want you to think […]

Queer Professional Snoop Solving Mysteries in Space

Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite, Blair Baker (narrator)

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About a month ago a large sinkhole opened in the interstate a few miles from where I live, and it has wrecked absolute chaos on my commute since as it closed the eastbound lanes of said interstate, and the detours send everyone directly into my commute. My peaceable 35-minute drive to work has bloomed to over an hour and is unpredictable so I’m leaving even earlier to ensure I get to work on time and don’t get docked pay, again. So… I have significantly increased […]

“What, other than a person, could you build up merely by caring?”

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

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Hey look, I read my very first Brandon Sanderson book! Even better, I really liked it. Very nearly 5-star loved it.   I have been intrigued by the writings of Brandon Sanderson for years, it’s hard to be a Cannonballer and not see many of the people whose opinions you generally agree with, and trust have incredibly complementary things to say about it. But the kind of massive, high fantasy volumes that Sanderson is infamous for have never been my thing. But then I kept […]



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