Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“This is a man’s first, last, and greatest fear: a world that exists empty of him.”

Lady Macbeth: A Novel by Ava Reid

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I have to admit I’m torn about this book. The first couple of chapters, I wasn’t really a fan, then I started really enjoying it. Now having finished and letting it all sink in, I’m back to poking large holes in it. Lady Macbeth (claims) to tell the feminist reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, told from the perspective of the aforementioned Lady Macbeth. Only instead of the forty-something woman named Gruoch pushing Macbeth towards power for herself as well as him, we have Roscille, the seventeen […]

“HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.”

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

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The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as “Things just happen. What the hell”. There are some things that are Holiday traditions in my house; watching more versions of A Christmas Carol than is probably healthy, as well as The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, A Charlie Brown Christmas, and The Hogfather (seriously, the show is as good as the book). Baking copious amounts of cookies (and Guinness gingerbread loaves, blasting an over 1,000 song-long playlist, driving around seeing the lights, more hot chocolate […]

Judging some books by their covers

Shady Hollow by Juneau Black

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

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A few months ago on vacation, my niece and I stopped in a bookstore to browse. We saw the Shady Hollow series display at the same time and both said, “Ooooh.” These books have the most charming covers, so I downloaded the first one from my library to read on the flight home. Naturally, my hope was that the story would be just as charming so I could justify buying them all to hoard like a dragon. Sadly, ’twas not to be. Shady Hollow, a cozy mystery […]

Get in touch with your inner wolf

Fan Service by Rosie Danen

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I really loved Fan Service. It touched on so many things, but what I loved most was the way Rosie Danen dug into conforming to expectations versus authenticity. Devin Ashwood is a washed up actor who badly wants to be back in the role for which he is best known – Colby Whitaker werewolf FBI agent. Alex Lawson was once the Moderator on the biggest fan site for the tv show, The Arcane Files. Both are treading water. When Devon is caught on video actually […]

Home missing you too

Homesick by Audrey Vernick and Liza Garton

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Have you ever been homesick for your home, family, a friend or place? Mostly likely you answered yes. However, have you ever thought that maybe your home is homesick for you when you go away? In Audrey Vernick and Liza Garton’s picture book (due August 2026) Homesick, that is what happens. The child of the story goes off to their grandparents home. The house became sad, missing its child and the story goes through the emotions. We even see how the parents mention how things […]

The book that was read to me

The Christmas Snow Globe by Sibylle Delacroix

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I had the opportunity to have The Christmas Snow Globe by Sibylle Delacroix “read” to me via a YouTube video. However, I have read it before (both  times I am assuming via an online reader). Both times I felt the story was sweet, funny and cute. However, the adult me isn’t a fan of sledding down the stairs! The kid me wonders where can I find a sled?  It is hard to talk about it, unless I tell you the story. Two children are waiting […]



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