Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

There’s no place like home

A House Between The Earth and the Moon by Rebecca Scherm

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This is the second novel I’ve read recently about traveling to space in the near future to escape climate disaster here on Earth – the last one was a series of short stories with a more terrestrial bent generally. In this novel, there are again casual mentions of pandemics plural, and more – the things that we are always afraid of in the news cycle. Mass shootings, intense weather events that drive people away from their homes, and increasingly more seamless integration of technology into […]

An American in Paris

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I have no idea where I heard about this book and I didn’t really know what it was about when I went into it, so I was surprised that I ended up loving it as much as I did. It was a quiet kind of book, the kind that just tugs you along until you’re in so deep that you don’t know what hit you. Grace lives in Paris working as an under-the-table employee at a somewhat shady restoration shop. She’s an American and she’s […]

On Reinvention, or Lying

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Unbecoming is a novel featuring a possibly unreliable and rather unlikeable narrator named Grace. The story alternates between 24-year-old Grace in present-day Paris and Grace several years ago in Garland, Tennessee, where she grew up. A crime has been committed and a couple of Grace’s friends have gone to jail. What responsibility does Grace have for what happened? What is it that Grace really wants? It seems that Grace has always wanted something else, something other than what life has given her, and she has […]



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