Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Oh, to be a wayward child…

Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire

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Children have always had a habit of disappearing into different worlds, whether they’ve strayed off a path in the woods or climbed into a wardrobe during a game of hide and seek, but what happens to those children once they come back home? For many of those children, they never wanted to return in the first place. And for the parents of those children, they just want their child to be the one they were before they disappeared, stop talking nonsense about the fairy worlds […]

“Our lack of power and our oppression are one and the same…”

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

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In a recent Time Magazine interview, Tomi Adeyemi described her first volume of the Legacy of Orïsha series as a kind of answer to the question, “What if Harry Potter had been black?” If people of color were represented more widely in literature and shown to be leaders, heroes, empathetic characters, would the world learn to become more accepting of them in real life? Children of Blood and Bone is full of powerful and heroic characters, many of them female, all of them black or […]

And so the Lightbringer saga comes to an end (spoiler free review on my thoughts of the series as a whole).

The Burning White: Book Five of the Lightbringer Series by Brent Weeks

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Several years ago, I asked my husband to find me a new author and surprise me with a book for my birthday.  Usually I give him a list of books, or at least authors, and he selects from there.  While I always get something I want, I’m never surprised.  Armed with the names of some of my favorite authors, he went to our local independent and asked for help from the excellent staff.  They suggested The Black Prism by Brent Weeks, first book in the Lightbringer […]

If the best thing is the preview to other stuff…

Lumberjanes The Shape of Friendship by Lilah Sturges

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I wouldn’t have known this if I had not noticed the back of the book, but apparently Lumberjanes: The Shape of Friendship is the sequel to The Infernal Compass. There is very little in the story to show the two are actually connected in any other way than featuring the same general setting and cast of characters. I actually like the ideas introduced to the Lumberjane universe in The Infernal Compass, and I’m a little sad that those elements got no more development; I hope […]

First big find of 2020!

Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire

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Potential favorite new author alert! I had heard of Seanan McGuire before; I saw something related to one of her more recent novels (Middlegame) which got my attention and now physically sits on my TBR bookcase. That is a longer book though and right now I don’t really have the time or energy, so instead I put in a request at my local library for Sparrow Hill Road. I had seen the sequel in a bookstore and thought it looked really interesting but I figured […]

No, Not All Is Said.

Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer

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The history of a fictional empire is told by various storytellers who not only narrate what happened but also distort it by looking at events through the mists of time and the traditions and mannerisms of their profession. Hence their stories work as allegories, fables, or social commentaries that teach moral lessons or make a point about the nature of the world more than they impart knowledge about the subject at hand in general or about its past. The stories are very loosely connected to […]



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