Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Has anyone noticed this whole city is looking for us, mad at us, or wants to kill us?” “So?” said Kaz. “Well, usually it’s just half the city.”

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

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Y’all. I’m here to say, loudly and proudly, I like fantasy. I don’t know why I didn’t see it before, maybe because I get confused by book genres, but I’m a real fan and delighted to keep finding new fun books to dive into thanks to the CBR community (hip hooray!) I don’t read a lot of YA so definitely have zero ideas of what’s new and hot in that sphere, so heard about this possibly at one of the Zoom book clubs (I think?) […]

“Are you always a smartass?’ Nope. Sometimes I’m asleep.”

Blood Rites (Dresden Files #6) by Jim Butcher

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All right people. I am here to crawl out beneath 8 (!) unwritten book reviews. Woof! I’m not sure if I’ve ever been this behind before in my history as a Cannonballer. Why the hiatus? Well, I am working on writing my own book (!!) and thinking I should prioritize THAT writing over THIS WRITING but spoiler, I haven’t done great at either. So I’m going to refocus and remember that practicing writing IS working on my book (just from sideways) so book reviews “count” […]

Just like never meet your heroes, don’t revisit a childhood favorites unless you are ready for an eye-opener

The Smurfs and the Bratty Kid by Peyo

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I had little knowledge of the Smurfs history outside of them being from Belgium, they were “three apples high” and blue. I knew the cartoon of the 1980s, but at the time unaware of its comic/graphic novel background. This collection, The Smurfs Tales #1: The Smurfs and the Bratty Kid by Peyo tells a little of the behind the story (in afterwards that was previously used as an introduction in other collections) but is mostly separate comics. And it starts from where the company producing […]

An excellent book but not my cup of tea

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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I read Gods of Jade and Shadow and thought it was enjoyable, so I was excited to read Mexican Gothic.  I’m not sure my expectations were met. Noemi is a socialite in the upper-class of 1950s Mexico City. She goes to parties, she flirts, she wears beautiful gowns because she actually enjoys them, and she wants to go university against her family’s wishes. Noemi’s life gets upended when her father asks her to go check on her cousin Catalina who has written a strange and disturbing […]

“These scratches are a history. They tell a story.”

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

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Linus Baker is a cog in a bureaucratic machine. He is a case worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth, or DICOMY. He is average in nearly every way: average build, average house, average desk job. Everything in his life is routine from his bus ride to work, to grinning and bearing it when he has to put up with his boss on a power-trip or his neighbor butting her way into his life, to the detailed reports he completes for all of […]

After School Times to Pass On

After School Hanako-kun by Aidalro

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After-School Hanako-kun feels a little like a bunch of pieces that might have been intended for the original main series but had to be cut for one reason or another. Several of the vignettes are probably supposed to be versions of standard high school manga/anime episodes like the beach day trip or main character catches a cold and has to stay out of things but is still somehow manages to be part of the story. In fairness, this collection is supposed to be a “behind […]



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