Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

This series is like the ideal fantasy college experience. Acceptance and friends and lots of pies.

Check, Please!, Book 2: Sticks & Scones by Ngozi Ukazu

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Again, read this in April, don’t remember as well as I should. PSA: Always write your reviews within a week of finishing the book! It doesn’t end well otherwise! (Writing this mostly for future Ashley, who insists on being a total asshole in this regard.) It was cute! I remember that. Bitty and the other hockey bros are a good bunch of people to hang out with for an hour or two (these are very fast reads). And this one, if I’m remembering correctly, had […]

Happy Pride Month!

Check, Please! Vol. 2 by Ngozi Ukazu

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I have posted my review of Check, Please! Vol 1 here: https://everyday-offershub.com/2019/02/check-please-debcapsfan/. Check Please Vol 2 continues the story of Eric “Bitty” Bittle in his Junior and Senior years at Samwell. When we last left our hero, his boyfriend, Jack, has graduated and is playing in the NHL for Seattle’s expansion team. Jack is a professional player, and they are keeping their relationship quiet. But slowly, Jack and Bitty reveal themselves to the hockey team at Samwell, and Jack’s teammates, and finally to Bitty’s parents. […]

The Answer

Not A Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson by Kent Babb

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Statistically and anecdotally, there are dozens of better players in NBA history than Allen Iverson. Iverson was famous for low percentage shots, inefficient passing and turnovers. His usage rate was outrageously high for someone whose effectiveness was questionable. When his hellbent driving skills worked, his layups and dunks looked like masterpieces. But his game was always more appreciated from an aesthetic perspective. So no, Allen Iverson was not the best player to play basketball. Not by a long shot. But in terms of cultural influence […]

Field Hockey+ Varsity Blues + Dazed and Confused + Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

We Are the Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian

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Found this one mentioned in an article in my BookPages at my library, back when we could go to libraries regularly and grab magazines others had touched without much worry. Remember those days? Wow. The article pitched this one as an all-nighter adventure of a women’s high school field hockey team. I didn’t play field hockey,but I did play lacrosse. It seemed like a fun romp through memory lane. Teams love hijinks! I think on a psychological level team hijinks help us understand the strength […]

This was a hot, sloppy mess.

The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1) by Nora Sakavic

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If you’re not aware of this book, a while back this series started making the rounds on Tumblr. It’s entirely self-published, and managed to break through somehow. It follows a team of college athletes playing a made-up sport called Exy at a fictional university called Palmetto State. The main character is the son of a crime lord and has been on the run for most of his life; he is living under a fake identity when he’s recruited. He also happens to have been childhood […]

A great book about two things I am terrible at: money and math. #CBRBingo – True Story

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

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Smart people who think outside the box are so much fun to read about. I read this book really fast, and it was enjoyable to read the whole way through. I’ve never read a Michael Lewis book before, but I might consider reading more now. He has a simple, clean style that is really efficient at getting his story across, and he has an instinct for the best way to use his material. And he has some great underlying material here. As he notes in […]



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