Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Connections and Questions

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

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Best for: People who like a mystery that doesn’t involve figuring out who killed someone; people who are interested in exploring people beyond what they choose to share. In a nutshell: Someone has robbed a bank, run, and is now holding hostage a group of folks at an apartment viewing. Worth quoting: “If the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit.” “Most people never become individuals to us. They remain people.” Why I chose it: […]

Is this a kissing book? Yes.

Gwen & Art Are Not In Love by Lex Croucher

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She turned at the door, her face illuminated in the flickering torchlight, looking at him with utter disdain. “You can address me as Your Highness.”  “My apologies, Your f-ing Highness,” Arthur called after her, but the door had already slammed shut—he was shouting into an empty room. -Gwen & Art are Not In Love (small edit to text by me  to make this safer for work.) It’s enemies not to lovers, but enemies to friends who become wingmen for each other. It is late spring […]

“I don’t know, man, seems kind of suss.”

That Time I got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming

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Unapologetic wish fulfillment. Plot: Cin is a spice farmer in a small medieval village which worships a goddess that protects them from monsters. Every 15 years, heroes are selected by the goddess to protect the realm from the monsters, which creep in through portals across the world. Cin does not want to be a hero, she wants to live a quiet life with her family. This is complicated when, on the night before the ceremonial selection of the newest cast of heroes, she accidentally rescues […]

“It’s My Party and I’ll Snub Who I Want To.”

Bored of the Rings by The Harvard Lampoon

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Written be devoted (and financially limited, as they reiterate often) fans of JRR Tolkien, in 1969 (nice). It has since been published and republished and translated into twelve languages. In 2012, it got an audiobook and an updated prologue with Adam Sandler references. I honestly thought I’d love this. I love Tolkien’s world, but not enough not to poke fun at it. Or maybe precisely enough to poke fun at it? Also, as can be demonstrated by the first sentence of this review, I am a child […]

“He needed a Rosetta stone for translating Rabble into Aristocracy and Back again.”

How the Marquess was Won by Julie Anne Long

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Instalment six in the Pennyroyal Green series, and involving zero Everseas or Redmonds! Plot: Phoebe is a graduate of and teacher at Miss Endicott’s Academy for Recalcitrant Girls in Pennyroyal Green, though she longs for more. Her imagination stalls out at what more might be though, given her limited experience and her bone deep fear of ending up where she started as an orphan in Six Dials. So instead, she reads the broadsheets, and fills her life with vicarious adventures. This is how she recognizes […]

“That we’re ‘Captain Dipshit and the Brainless Twit'”

Happily Never After by Lynn Painter

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A love story for sarcastic cynics. So obviously I loved it. Plot: Sophie was on the cusp of being promoted. Then she got engaged to the son of one of her coworkers, whose dad was also her father’s long-time employer. And then he cheated. So on the one hand, if she backs out of the wedding and humiliating the son, her dad’s is on the line. On the other hand, fuck that guy. Enter Max, who helps people who feel forced into a wedding they […]



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