Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“I have just drawn my weapon and killed a Coke machine, sir.” CBRBINGO – Green (BINGO!)

The Tommyknockers by Stephen King

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According to many Constant Readers, this is Uncle Stevie’s worst book, but I don’t agree! It is extremely flawed, but I also found it very readable (it probably helped that Edward Herrmann narrates the audiobook, and he is a wonderful audiobook narrator). This is sci-fi horror. A woman named Bobbie, a writer of western novels, finds a buried object in the ground and becomes obsessed with unearthing it. Doing so changes her and the town she lives in forever, and in really really creepy ways. […]

The Dragon Revenant

The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison

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A few weeks back, I wrote a review for Katherine Addison’s The Angel of the Crows. Reading this book was actually a bit of tangent for me; I had been meaning to hunt down the third book in her Cemeteries of Amalo series, The Tomb of Dragons. And then I got distracted by the book whose existence became as a surprise. And a massive library hold time. The Tomb of Dragons is the third book in the Cemeteries of Amalo set, which are, in turn, […]

Much Bigger CW Needed

Dan Da Dan vol. 1 by Yukinobu Tatsu

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I have seen Dan Da Dan manga all over social media/the internet, so when I saw volume 1 at the library I picked it up out of curiosity. The premise is interesting: two high school outsiders, one obsessed with aliens, the other believes in spirits, dare each other to prove the other person’s belief is invalid by sending each other to the most likely haunted/abduction sites in the area, per the web. Guess what happens next? One thing I hadn’t noticed initially was that there […]

Possible Death By Lunar Cheese Volcano

When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

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When the Moon Hits Your Eye is not really a straightforward story. The premise is basically “What if the moon actually turned to cheese, suddenly and unexplicably? How would people react?” Each chapter is a mini-episode of a couple of people trying to figure out what is going on, and what they think and how they feel about it.  These episodes range from a group of retirees in a diner, to a couple of young adults working at rival cheese shops, to NASA scientists, to […]

Carl and Donut’s Guide to Dungeon Crawling as Reality TV

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

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I’ve had Dungeon Crawler Carl on my TBR for a while (picked it up as retail therapy not too long ago, but it’s been on a list for good bit longer), and then there was a spike of reviews on here, so now here’s my take. I kind of do get the hype; there’s humor but it’s kind of dark by necessity, there’s hope in the midst of tragedy and chaos, and it’s mostly pretty entertaining. The basic story feels kind of like a mish-mash […]

Samantha Allen brings her delightfully weird mind to romance.

Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet by Samantha Allen

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Thanks to NetGalley, RBmedia, and Recorded Books for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. If you too are a fan of Samantha Allen’s previous lesbian Sasquatch-related work, well, I actually have no idea if you will like this or not. It’s completely different. Instead of horror, we’ve got romance, instead of reality TV satire, we’ve got an aging movie star coming out of the closet (while being a ghost). And the “sex” in this . . . you’ve just got to […]



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