Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Everything Is Fine

The Warehouse by Rob Hart

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The best dystopias are the ones that take the world as is and tilt it just a little off its axis in a realistic way. Octavia Butler’s Parable duology took the circumstances of white supremacy and income inequality and added a heat-ravaged climate so devastating that it fractured global society. Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America took the anti-Semitism of the WASP-dominated 1930s United States and added the specter of Europe’s fascist politics made manifest in a Nazi sympathizer being elected President. Those two have always spoken to […]

Requires Research

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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I am (mostly) unashamed to admit that my first encounter with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, or any of Mark Twain’s books, were not in school, but on my own accord after watching Disney’s 1995 “Tom and Huck.” I was twelve, smitten with the carefree, super hot (at least I thought so at the time) characters going on crazy adventures, and after the movie was over, I wanted more. I read Tom Sawyer first and loved it since the movie follows it fairly closely.  I started Huckleberry […]

Watch out, boy, she’ll chew you up

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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#CBR11 Bingo: Pajiba (reviewed by Kayleigh here) (Would also work for “Award winner”, “Own voices”, “Listicle”, “Cannonballer Says”, and possibly, “Far and Away”) Official book description: Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps […]

Um…Hockey?

Amazons: An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League by "Cleo Birdwell" (Don DeLillo)

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Well then. I’ve wanted to read this book for a long time and I’ve tried many times. I’m a diehard New York Rangers fan and I thought a fictional take on what it would be like to be a female Ranger would be a blast. But after 10 pages, I soon realize that’s not what “Cleo Birdwell” (aka Don DeLillo) is going for here. This book is really about sex. Lots and lots of sex. Sexual exploration, etc. Which is fine. I’m not a prude. […]

Jasper Fforde does YA fantasy, and it works! #CBRBingo – YOUTHS!

The Last Dragonslayer (The Last Dragonslayer, #1) by Jasper Fforde

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I liked this quite a bit! And so I’ve started yet another Jasper Fforde series. I have yet to finish one, either because of my own reading preferences or because, well—actually none of his series are finished. He keeps dangling a ninth Thursday Next (I still need to read seven and eight), the third Nursery Crime book will seemingly never be written (why), we seem to never be getting Shades of Grey‘s promised two sequels, and this one has a fourth book that who even […]

Finally getting around to a series I’ve had on my TBR for ten years. #CBRBingo – Reading the TBR

Goblin Quest (Jig the Goblin, #1) by Jim C. Hines

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Somehow I’ve ended up reading all of Jim C. Hines’s series in reverse publication order. Jig the Goblin is the last series of his I have to read, and the first published. It’s definitely not as polished or witty as I found his later books, and perhaps I’m missing something because I don’t play Dungeons & Dragons, but it was a fun time anyway. Having read a shit ton of fantasy in my day, I felt I could still appreciate it. Plus, I get to […]



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