Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Search this Site

About Debcapsfan

CBR 6
CBR 7
CBR 8
CBR 9
CBR10 participant
CBR11 participant
CBR12 participant
CBR13 participant
CBR14 Participant
CBR14 Bingo Badges
CBR15 Participant
CBR17 Participant
CBR18 Participant

My husband Jason and I are wonder twin cancer survivors! Sadly, all the radiation did not make us bionic...yet. I've done two quarter Cannonballs successfully now, and this year I'm going for a half. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Debcapsfan's Quick Questions interview.)

Debcapsfan's Reviews:

Rage Against the Machine

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

by Leave a Comment

This review contains some mild spoilers which I think are given away in the book jacket. Iron Widow is a YA story set in a future city of Chinese inspired Huaxia where men and women pilot mecha type suits to protect the population from aliens around the Great Wall. The suits are called Chrysalises, and the pilot, a man, teams up with a woman in the back in a merging of energy and minds that usually result in the woman’s death. This is how the […]

White Privilege Pyramid Scheme

Hey Hun by Emily Lynn Paulson

by 4 Comments

Hey Hun is the story of Emily Lynn Paulson’s time in an MLM. She is the narrator of her own audiobook. Emily changes the name of the MLM to protect herself from being sued, but she doesn’t really level anything particularly shocking against the company. The company uses the standard techniques of an MLM in that the people who start the MLM make money by recruiting more people into the company, and the people at the bottom of the pyramid who joined the company last […]

A Sweet Spin on Shakespeare

Midsummer's Mayhem by Rajani LaRocca

by 1 Comment

I am a regular listener of the podcast The Worst Bestsellers. While the hosts often read and make gentle fun of some very popular books, they also recommend books to read instead of the bestseller. This book was recommended and I really enjoyed it. Midsummer’s Mayhem is a cute confection of a book for readers ages 8-12 and loosely follows the plot of a Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mimi Jackson is 11, living with her two older sisters and one older brother. One day, a new […]

I’m the Prophecy

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

by 1 Comment

Oh, how I inhaled this. What a great start to this year’s Cannonball. Black Sun is the first book in a trilogy inspired by Pre-Columbian civilizations with magic, priests, clans and Gods. Serapio is the reincarnated (maybe just returned to the land, it’s a little fuzzy) Crow God. A merchant hires Xiala, a Teek, to get him to the city of Tova. The city is preparing for the solstice, where a ceremony will be lead by the Sun Priest, Naranpa. Tova is a city of […]

And Melt With You

I'll Stop the World by Lauren Thoman

by Leave a Comment

I’ll Stop the World is the debut novel by Lauren Thoman, published by Mindy’s Book Studio, the Mindy being Mindy Kaling. It’s clear from her opening note at the beginning of the book that there are twists in this book. I did get one of them because math, but I was really surprised by the second. I admit though when I know there’s a big twist in books I try not to think to hard about it because I just want to enjoy the story […]

Kawaii Ghosts

Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (author(, Polly Barton (translator)

by Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo- Asia/Oceana- BINGO! Where the Wild Ladies Are is a collection of Japanese folk tales retold with a feminist point of view. The tales all have ghosts in them, but they are mostly cute or beautiful ghosts, and not scary ghosts. The only one I thought was a bit tense was The Peony Lanterns, a story about two traveling saleswomen where things start escalating and then seppuku or ritual suicide is suggested, but not really. If you’ve ever tried to get rid of a […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo