Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“I am wonderful, I deserve to be wonderful, and I contain multitudes.”

If It Bleeds by Stephen King

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I haven’t been great about reading lately, and have been even worse about reviewing. But as a loyal Constant Reader, I felt like this might be the book to jumpstart my COVID reading habits, and I was mostly right. Similiar to earlier collections like Different Seasons, The Bachman Books, Full Dark No Stars, and Four Past Midnight, If It Bleeds is made up of four long-ish, unrelated stories (or novellas, if you’re feeling fancy): Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, If It Bleeds, and […]

Modern haunted house story with a twist

Kill Creek by Scott Thomas

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I love horror, and haunted house stories are my favorite subgenre of horror. I’m always on the lookout for new (to me) horror writers and twists on the usual haunted house theme. Kill Creek promised both. Four famous horror writers are invited to spend Halloween night at the infamous house on Kill Creek. They’ve been invited by media mogul Wainwright, who wants to interview them for his website. The authors couldn’t be more different from one another or Wainwright. Sam writes stories about families struggling […]

“All whiteboards are magical.”

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

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From Goodreads: Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the […]

“The lights will come back on someday…and then we’ll all finally get to go home.”

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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I am not saying anything you don’t already know when I tell you that this book is simply amazing. I first read this book back for CBR6 (and shockingly — I think I was the first review of it!!), and recommended it to everyone I knew for months afterwards. I bought copies of it for birthdays, and housewarmings, and hostess gifts. I participated in the very first #cannonbookclub. I thought about getting a Survival is Insufficient tattoo. I was all about this book. And I […]

I’ve been reading a ton, but just don’t feel like writing, so here’s a review dump.

You'd Be Mine by Erin Hahn

Regretting You by Colleen Hoover

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

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Reader, I’ve been reading a bunch of random books, with absolutely no direction in my life. Sitting at home and just trying to get out of my own head by getting into someone else’s. These are three of them. I liked some better than others, but they all had interesting bits. Here they are, in order of least favorite to most beloved. You’d Be Mine was a random Kindle download I picked up when the whole RWA thing blew up, and I had seen Erin […]

“This is how all Noirs end, with a hug.”

Cut and Run by Ben Acker, Ben Blacker

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Cut and Run was one of my free Audible Originals last month. It is an absurd little story about a rag-tag team of organ harvesting good guys down in Mexico. Honestly, its best not to care too much about the plot, because, as I said, it is absurd. But this thing has a murderer’s row of a cast! It was a delight to listen to from start to finish. The performers really raised the quality of the material. We have D’Arcy Carden as Sam, the […]



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