Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Reviewing this makes ME feel like an alien.

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

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Without a doubt, I have grown more as a reader since I started doing CBR a few years ago than in my entire 20+ years reading before it. It’s still comforting and thrilling to read books that are exactly the reason I love to read, but going completely outside of my genre is a different kind of experience. Fulfilling. I read Cannonball reviews (along with Pajiba and every other blog or news source I follow) through Feedly, and my only “rules” for myself are that […]

Higher. Further. Faster. YAY!

Captain Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Hero, Vol. 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Captain Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Hero, Vol 2 by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Captain Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Hero, Vol 3 by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Captain Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Hero, Vol 4 by Kelly Sue DeConnick

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I’ve been waiting for the Captain Marvel movie since 2012! I read the first few volumes for a MOOC called “Gender Issues in Comics” which was presented on Canva by Christy Blanch. It was a wonderful course which jumpstarted my interest in superhero comics (particularly female superhero comics).  And I completely got why Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers changed the game for female comics readers.  So in anticipation of the new movie, I avoided all casting reveals and spoilers and revisited the first 3.5 volumes of the […]

I’m Sure There Was a Plot, But I Couldn’t Find It

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

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I’ve had this book for ages, heard it was good and that it basically put Stephenson on the map, but I could not make it through to the end. I got to page 186 and stopped. It’s not that there was anything wrong with page 186; that was just where I’d finally had enough. Why? Because I cannot tell you what this book is about. I know what it’s supposed to be about, from reading the blurb on the back and other people’s reviews, but Stephenson […]

This review should have been done 3 years ago

Time Salvager by Wesley Chu

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I only half read Time Salvager. I’m really stubborn and I absolutely hate to DNF but this book has been sitting on my coffee table and my Goodreads “Currently Reading” for three years. I wish that were an exaggeration. Even though my copy was signed by the author when I went to a reading when this first came out, it’s time. I should have liked this. The general premise and the opening scenes are really intriguing. Humanity can time travel but it’s really dangerous and […]

Still has exciting steampunk aerial combat but doesn’t recapture the joy of the first book

Arabella the Traitor of Mars: The Adventures of Arabella Ashby by David D. Levine

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“The Adventures of Arabella Ashby” series starts off with a bang in Arabella of Mars. The second book, Arabella and the Battle of Venus, was not as ‘romantic and dashing’ as the first.  The third, Arabella the Traitor of Mars, is a good conclusion to Arabella’s story but it doesn’t have the spark of the first book. I mentally groaned when the book started with Arabella and Captain Singh on Earth but then Arabella, once again, needs to race to the other side of the solar system, in as […]

How long ’til black future month?

How Long 'Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin

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I picked this book up purely on the strength of my love for N.K. Jemisin.  I’m generally not a fan of the short story format.  The only short story collections I’ve read cover to cover are the ones written by Neil Gaiman, who is very high on my favorite author list.  N.K. Jemisin is an incredible author who creates fantastic worlds so I anticipated enjoying the book, but I was blown away at how her short fiction thoroughly engaged me in a way that the […]



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