Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“For here was the thing that no fairy tale would ever admit, but that she understood in that moment: love was not inherently good.”

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

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This was a weird and unique read. If you like darker fantasy that plays with ideas as the basis for stories, this might be a good one for you to check out. It was relatively short, but the imagination the author showcases was really fun, and the icky elements were icky in a good way. I’m not quite sure how to talk about the book, though! The main character here is Devon, a Book Eater, which is a human-like being who instead of eating food, […]

I couldn’t think up a title so this is my title.

White Horse by Erika T. Wurth

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This is a tough one to rate because half of my strange reaction to it is I’m sure just bumping up a little against the writing style, but the other half is that it genuinely could have been written better in parts. There was A LOT of telling not showing, and the third-act conflict made the MC come across as pretty stupid. A lot of the elements here were interesting individually but didn’t seem to come together at the end? Our main character is Kari […]

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One Sweet Song by Jyoti Rajan Gopal

American Desi by Jyoti Rajan Gopal

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CBR15Passport author   The funny thing is, “sweet” does not always do it for me (unless it is a donut or chocolate). However, once in awhile a book that is sweet gets me in the feels. That is because it is sweet but not overly, sickening sweet (like three York peppermint patties and a mug of hot chocolate). And One Sweet Song falls in the former sweet category. Rhyming text takes us through a neighborhood when one person, while sitting on a balcony, plays a […]

Three Great Manga Short Story Collections

All My Darling Daughters by Fumi Yoshinaga

Don't Say Any More, Darling by Fumi Yoshinaga

Sneeze by Naoki Urasawa

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I read these three books today as a relaxing re-read of two of my favorite manga artists. Fumi Yoshinaga and Naoki Urasawa have very distinct sensibilities, but I think they both have a facility with emotion and the ability to pack a lot of characterization, both spoken and unspoken, into a drawing. All three of these books are short story collections, which enables you to see more of the breadth of both authors’ work. All My Darling Daughters is made up of interconnected short stories […]

Model seed, model cities

Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan

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I chose this book after reading this review   (thanks, anana!). I have to say I agree with anana’s general perspective that this book is ambitious and mostly successful. What drew me in was the comparison to Station Eleven, which I loved. If you’re interested in literary fiction about climate change and the potential disasters it might bring to Earth as we know it, you’ll likely enjoy this novel. The structure relies on the story of a single family, told across two hundred years – from the […]

Yes, I Read It Just Because of the Title

Take My Daddy I'll Take Yours by Jenika Snow

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Look, they can’t all be great literature. Sometimes I’m bored and scrolling Kindle Unlimited and I see a sexy cover model who I recognized from Sara Cate’s upcoming book, Highest Bidder, and the silly title intrigues you enough to read it. STOP JUDGING ME! Mina is a twenty-something girl, and that is pretty much her entire personality. Her father is getting remarried to a former classmate of hers, which she finds a little icky, but she is happy that her Dad seems to be happy. […]



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