Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

More Superheros at Work

Andrea Vernon & the Superhero-Industrial Complex by Alexander C. Kane

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While I normally don’t read self-published literature, Crystalclear lent me Andrea Vernon last year and I absolutely loved it, so I was super excited when she bought me book 2: Andrea Vernon & the Superhero Industrial Complex, for my birthday. Starting a year after the last book ended, Andrea’s gotten a promotion, she and The Big Axe are an official thing, and life is looking pretty good and stable….until Ms. Oh needs Andrea to go with her on a European tour to globalize CUP’s resources in the […]

Love &…well, more love…

Love & Olives by Jenna Evans Welch

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“Do you think it’s possible that you can believe in me for a bit? How do you believe in someone who left when you were eight years old? And how was I supposed to manage the enormous chasm that existed between how he said he felt about me and what his actions said he felt about me?” Liv thought her biggest problem was trying to find a way to tell her boyfriend that she wants to attend art school rather than follow him to Stanford. […]

I know I always complain about book series that don’t have an end BUT I WANT MORE

Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman

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Travel: because I actually really liked the majority of this book where Seraphina is just traveling from one city to another, trying to do her thing Wow, people really don’t like this book. I, on the other hand, squandered a perfectly good sleep head start to the week to stay up and finish this book and was nigh inconsolable afterwards because [WHAT IS ORMA’S MIND PEARL TRIGGER???? IS IT IN THE NEXT BOOK (Tess of the Road??? I NEED TO KNOW]. So if I address the […]

Baal – Robert McCammon (1978)

Baal by Robert McCammon

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CBR13Bingo – Travel (Trigger Warning: sexual violence) One of my favorite tropes that happens in movies is when a character starts to realize that maybe their nextdoor neighbor is a vampire or whatever, and so they go to the library and get some giant book about vampires, and in one chapter there’s all the relevant information right there, and even a few illustrations to go with it that looks almost exactly like the character we’ve seen on screen. Crazy! Recent movies and books have of […]

Accept Vassar professorship or head off the the boonies on a dodgy errand? What’s a poor girl to do?

His Illegal Self by Peter Carey

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Bingo square – Travel I’ve read one of Peter Carey’s books (Oscar and Lucinda) awhile back (long enough ago it isn’t on my Goodreads list) but what I remembered about reading it was that the first two-thirds were What am I even reading, and then it clicked in and I devoured the rest.  So, readers, let us say I was prepared, and buckled in for the long ride. All right, those of you about my age certainly remember Patty Hearst.  Now let’s just say she […]

“The privilege of living now is that I can seat myself at the master’s table – the table of my white ancestor, a slaveholder – and interpret his world, and he has no say.”

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael Twitty

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I think to understand what The Cooking Gene is, you have to have a picture of its author. I’ve known Michael Twitty on Twitter for about a decade, Museum Twitter can be a small space sometimes in the best possible ways. Besides being a hoot to spend time with during political debates, Twitty is also a Culinary Historian focusing on the foodways of Africa, enslaved African Americans, African America and the African and Jewish diasporas. Basically, he’s one of the people you want to talk […]



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