Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Don’t you cry no more

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

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CBR Square: Yellow After the events of Carry On, Simon Snow has saved the day! And lost his magic, spending his days like any student who suddenly has no job, no plan, and no life meaning; sleeping on the couch. So, he’s wallowing, but he has good reason to wallow. When his best friend, Penny, uses visiting his ex, Agatha, as an excuse to road trip across the country, Simon and his vampire boyfriend Baz set off for America together. Somehow no one understands American […]

“If something keeps you human when pressure makes you feel like a volcano, hold on to that thing by any means necessary.” (Bingo #2)

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

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#CBR12 Bingo: Yellow Official book description: Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits—someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom.   When brooding security guard Zafir Ansari rescues Dani from a workplace […]

People swallow lies easily provided they are big enough

Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

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CBR12 BINGO: Yellow I’ve been in the mood to revisit Watchmen since I saw the extraordinary HBO series earlier this year (best television in recent memory, btw). Then references to the comic book series popped up in Eleanor & Park, and it gave me an extra push to reread the graphic novel that I first encountered when I was in college. Plus. . . .can’t get more yellow than that cover, can you? I wanted to see whether this classic holds up after 34 years, […]

The Greatest Library that Never Was

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

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I was a huge fan of the Night Circus, so I was ecstatic when the lovely faintingviolet shared her copy of the Starless Sea with me. To give too much of the plot away takes all the joy out of reading this story, but the baseline is that there’s a magical library hidden underground accessible by doorways above. The nature through which patrons find these doors varies to fate, and in recent years, someone’s been closing all the doors. At least until a grad student named Zachery stumbles […]

Real Life Takes Place in Movement

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

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An elderly professor gives lectures on Greek history on a cruise ship, a Polish family vacations in Croatia with dramatic consequences, an immigrant tries to build a new life on a remote island in the north. In the 17th century, Filip Verheyen discovers the Achilles tendon, and Frederik Ruysch revolutionizes embalming techniques, while today, plastination makes it possible to preserve bodies in an incredibly detailed and lifelike fashion. These are just some of the stories told in this book, and in between, there are musings […]



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