Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Do you know the gingerbread man?

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

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I need to start this off by saying this book was perfect to me. Well, almost perfect, but I’m giving it a five-star review because the good outweighed my little nitpicks, and it felt like it was written directly to appeal to me. However, before I start raving about the parts of this book that just made my heart sing, I want to flag that I have read other books by T. Kingfisher, and those were for adults and a little more creepy than this […]

The Snail, the Pumpkin and the Squash

Stories of the Islands by Clar Angkasa

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Three gorgeously illustrated, feminist-twist folktales, myths, stories are included in Stories of the Islands by Clar Angkasa (Clar pronounced like Clark without the k) based their stories on the ones of their childhood, adding what might not seem at first “girl power” but will become that, to each one. There are some mature themes (the giant wants to eat the girl, the father is abusive to his daughters, a village thinks that a woman who is single with no children is odd and tells her […]

Everyone should read this, it should be obligatory

Babel by R. F. Kuang

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This book was recommended to me, and so I picked it up. After an… Engaging beginning, (It just jumps right into everyone being racist to the main character) I decided this wasn’t going to be a light read. It wasn’t. This book is something everyone should read, not because it’s good, but because it provides a lens through which you can view imperialism and racism and sexism and general problems with today’s world, and focuses it. It focuses not simply on the individual level, but […]

Childhood memories

Magyk by Angie Sage

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I read this book when I was younger, and it deserves to be a classic in my eyes. It’s got all the elements of a good fantasy story, most of which I don’t even know how to word, but this book has it! The world it’s set in is built really well, and just breathes with life. The little details sprinkled throughout the book are just so fun to scour. Not to mention the plot twist(s), which are not necessarily predictable, but make sense completely […]

A Journey From Lawyer to Redeemed Ghost

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

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I’m not sure why I delayed reading this for so long, aside from some preconceived expectations about how the book might end, but I’m glad I finally gave it a shot. Our protagonist, lawyer Wallace Price, is not a very good person. The negative thoughts or stereotypes you may have had about lawyers pretty much apply here. He’s a workaholic who cares about little more than winning cases. When he unexpectedly dies from a heart attack, only 6 people attend his funeral, and that includes […]

Hash and Rehash

Cassiel's Servant by Jacqueline Carey

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After years of training, Joscelin Verrail joins the ranks of the Cassiline Brotherhood as a celibate warrior-priest. As such, he’s displeased to find himself assigned to protect the young courtesan Phèdre, never anticipating how it’ll sweep him up into a world of danger and political intrigue. I should say off the bat that I love the Kushiel’s Legacy series, and the first book, Kushiel’s Dart, is one of my favorite books of all time. While I didn’t exactly like Joscelin when he was first introduced, […]



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