Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Naughty List

The House that Santa (Almost) Missed by Paul Laud

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I am sure Paul Laud is a nice person. And if you are reading this Mr. Laud, please know that I respect and appreciate the hard work, effort and time that went into creating The House that Santa (Almost) Missed. I empathize with the dedication it takes to work at something you hope to share with others. And I know that creating a book is not easy. Far from it, in fact. However, if Santa asks you what I want for Christmas this year, please […]

Who are you? Are you me? Have you come to kill me at last?

Black Wine by Candas Jane Dorsey

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This is an utterly brilliant and devastatingly brutal fantasy novel that reminds me a lot of (my reading of the first two) Gene Wolfe New Sun novels. The world we enter into it here does not contain a lot of specific context for us to understand much, but moves us through it borrowing heavily from tropes and sources as we watch a character (an exiled woman) move through a fantasy world. As she does so, she clearly starts to question her own surroundings, as we […]

It’s the same story on repeat but still pretty fun

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

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Apparently the multi-narrator thing is now a trend in certain types of fiction. I heard this a while ago, but hadn’t thought on it much until I picked up Carry On. I’ve read Fangirl, so I had a basic idea but what I hadn’t realized was that Carry On uses one of my least favorite narrative styles, first person present, and the multi-narrator story. Together these things drag down what would otherwise be a great fan fic/twist on the “Chosen One” brand of hero story. […]

We don’t know whether this is a dream or a memory.

Space Invaders by Nona Fernandez

The Promise by Silvina Ocampo

The Fool by Anne Serre

A Short, Sharp Shock by Kim Stanley Robinson

Welcome to America by Linda Bostrum Knausgaard

Invisible Kingdom vol 1 by G Willow Wilson

Beyonders vol 1 by Paul Jenkins

Infinite Dark vol 1 by Ryan Cady

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Space Invaders – 4/5 stars This short novel from Chile takes places in late 70s and early 80s in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship in which tens of thousands of dissenters were placed in concentration camps, killed outright, or both, often having their entire existence bureaucratically eradicated in the process. It was common practice bodies to be burned or dumped in the ocean as well. This novel is a novel of childhood as kids through a main narrator try to make sense of their world. […]

Aside From Some Britishisms, It’s Basically the Same

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling My rating: 3 of 5 stars I heard that reading the British version of the HP series gives American readers a slightly different experience, so I decided to give it a try. It’s been at least three years since I read the first book and probably twice that since I read the later ones. What I can say is the there is definitely a much more “British” feel for the beginning of this book than I […]

Hungry like the wolf

Wolfsong by T.J. Klune

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Official book description: Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. He said that Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. Ox was sixteen when he met the boy on the road. The little boy who talked and talked and talked. Ox found out later the little boy hadn’t spoken in almost two years before that day, and that the little boy belonged to a family who had moved into the house at the end […]



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