Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

not for me, but ymmv!

Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

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Sigh I think I wanted to like this one more than I ended up actually liking it. It didn’t engross me enough to compel me to keep reading, but it was a nice change of pace. I think there’s something about cavalier murder of exhaustion or neglect that is off-putting to me. To be clear, in my real life I find all murder, of any form, off-putting! FBI agent, please disregard these musing and/or note that they are, in fact, about fiction– https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2… Well, moving […]

book one in a series that is continuing? finishing? in november–get on this train fast!

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

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BOY DID I LOVE THIS BOOK. That’s right, I five starred this book and it feels totally right (especially after writing my Ready Player One review and realizing that I had already written about 600 words and had even more things to complain about). Many many thanks go to Evin, whom I should have listened to at the outset. She recommended this book to me back in February, during a confusing week when I needed some distraction. I…disregarded her suggestion, as this was an unfinished series (at […]

A magical love letter to NYC

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

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New York City has been born as a great city of the world and she has chosen her avatar. This happens from time to time as enough people and ideas coalesce in one spot. It happened to Rio de Janerio, to Hong Kong, to London, and many more. And now it’s happening to New York. Except this time, one single person is not embodying the entire city like has always been the case. Instead there is an additional avatar for each of the five boroughs […]

I like this book and now want pie

Nightbird by Alice Hoffman

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“It was a miracle to live as birds do, except for one thing: anyone seen in flight would surely be captured, perhaps even shot down like a crow flying above a cornfield. It’s always dangerous to be different, to appear as a monster in most people’s eyes, even from a distance.” Nightbird by Alice Hoffman is about a town named Sidwell meant for ages 10-13. In Sidwell, people believe in fairy tales. Well, to be more specific, they believe in a monster, the Sidwell monster. […]

Platonic love is love

Common Bonds by Claudie Arsenault

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I was looking for a book about aromantic peoples. And I found a book about aromantic people called Common Bonds. As the publisher description says, this book is “featuring aromantic characters and centering platonic relationships.” The main editors are Claudie Arsenault, C. T. Callahan, B. R. Sanders, and RoAnna Sylver. It is heavy on the fantasy element, or realistic fantasy. Even if the story is more real (college students yapping away in their dorm room or hanging at the local bar) there can be supernatural […]

A Well Drawn Fantasy World

A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos

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A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos is the first in a quartet of of fantasy YA novels called The Mirror Visitor Series.  Thankfully, somebody decided this book was good enough to be translated from the French for us American readers. The story is set in a future world where people live on different Arks. Family members on each Ark share a special power. Ophelia lives on Anima and is gifted with the power to travel through mirrors and to “read” objects. This ability allows her […]



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