Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“This is weird, Madison. You want me to raise your husband’s fire children.”

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

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My book club chose Nothing to See Here (2019) by Kevin Wilson as our next read. I knew nothing about it and had no expectations. In fact, in my head I had it confused with another book I’d seen on some list. So when I began, I was very confused that the protagonist/narrator was a present-day woman living with her mom. However, I quickly figured out my mistake, and I thoroughly enjoyed this quick, humorous, yet still touching novel. Lillian is 28 years old and living […]

“I dreamed that Curran and I killed a dinosaur and then had sex in the dirt.”

Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels, #3) by Ilona Andrews

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All right, I get why people love this series! I wish I had put book four on my February TBR instead of March. Oh, well. Even despite playing around with the commonly used “underground gladiator/fighting ring” plot structure, this book was a really good time. It helps when you take a commonly used plot device and use it well, which they did! I’m not even going to try and explain what’s going on with the plot. It’s a lot, and it’s too involved with spoilery […]

Damnit, Disney.

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

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Now I have more reason to be pissed about the animated adaptation of Nimona being cancelled by Disney. Them buying Blue Sky Studios and immediately burying one of their most promising projects was enough of a reason for me to be angry, but I hadn’t even read the graphic novel at the time of seeing that news, so I didn’t know if I was right to be so upset. People seemed to love Nimona, though, it sounded like a promising property for an animated movie, […]

The Big Book of Ghost Stories

The Big Book of Ghost Stories by Otto Penzler editor

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Another of the Otto Penzler books of collected stories, this book takes on the ghost story in fiction of the last 150 or so years. So, for example, we’re not getting Hamlet or The Castle of Otranto or anything like that. The collection still mostly focuses on stories written for magazine publication primarily, and this means tha a lot of stories were originally published in various pulp magazines in the 1930s or thereabouts, but different from the more noir collections, we end up with a […]

The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag; Waldo; Magic Inc.

The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag by Robert a Heinlein

Waldo by Robert A Heinlein

Magic Inc by Robert A Heinlein

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These three novellas by Robert A Heinlein were all first published, I think, in the early 1940s. But Heinlein’s early work were often repackaged and republished later once he was a better-selling writer. His early novellas sometimes went through fix-ups (melding two or more together to make a kind of novel out of them), but these have not gone through that. While Waldo and Magic Inc are published together, they are not connected in anyway beyond thematic considerations. The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag Jonathan […]

January 2022 Leftovers

Hit Parade by Lawrence Block

Sex Criminals, Volume 1: One Weird Trick by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky

Devils In Exile by Chuck Hogan

Ex Machina, The Deluxe Edition: Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan

A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny

Munich by Robert Harris

Shella by Andrew Vachss

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler

The Accomplice by Lisa Lutz

No One Will Miss Her by Kat Rosenfeld

The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie

The Second Sleep by Robert Harris

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My resolution for Cannonball Read in 2022 is to only write reviews where I feel like I have much to say and then dump the others in a singular post at the end of the month to track how much I’ve read. This’ll spare me from writing 250+ words about books that I can’t even think of a hundred for. So… Hit Parade **** I enjoy these books and while this is the one I maybe enjoyed the least (did EVERY story need cutaway conversations with […]



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