Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Huh, do I work with the author?

Bellwether by Connie Willis

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Bellwether was written in 1997 by Connie Willis, but seems very current.  It’s considered science fiction, but frankly, I don’t think it really is since everything in it could actually happen.  Set in a big corporation called HiTek, it is told from the point of view of Sandra, a researcher trying to discover what causes fads.  She is navigating life while interacting with friends and coworkers who are all investigating different things while the company pushes for one of them to win the Niebnitz Grant […]

Elizabeth Jane Howard (2)

Love All by Elizabeth Jane Howard

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“He looked at what he could see of her face–half turned away from him but unmistakably downcast–and tried another tack.” This is one of the later of the Elizabeth Jane Howard books, and well, to my horror, I listened to the audiobook not realizing it was an abridged version.  Sigh.  This always paints me into a weird corner personally where I have to decide whether it “counts” for me to have read the book or not. Obviously, the answer is who cares, I can do […]

“Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.”

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

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I’m nearly a decade late to The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin. It has been on my to read list since 2016 and got pushed to the top tier of the pile last year for the Read Harder challenge (as it does take place in a big way in a bookstore). Then I never got to it but seeing that there was a movie adaptation out I decided to get my proverbial act together and dig into the story.   The book tells […]

Kathryn Moon’s Sweetverse

Baby and the Late Night Howlers by Kathryn Moon

Lola and the Millionaires parts I & II by Kathryn Moon

Bad Alpha by Kathryn Moon

Faith and the Dead End Devils by Kathryn Moon

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I’m excited about writing this because none of y’all know me! These are the books I comfort reread with a disturbing regularity, and they are the sweetest, filthiest Why Choose/ABO romances out there. I just finished a buddy read with some romancelandia friends and I gotta share em with y’all as well. (Because I know none of you are my mother) First – what is Why Choose and what is ABO? Why Choose is the new term for Reverse Harem, which in romance books involves […]

CJ Cherryh (1)

Downbelow Station by CJ Cherryh

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“The stars, like all man’s other ventures, were an obvious impracticality, as rash and improbable an ambition as the first venture of man onto Earth’s great oceans, or into the air, or into space.”   A few years ago I read the Cyteen novels, which exist in this same universe as this one, but is not a sequel. Instead, we have some world-building here. Space colonies! Like a lot of early European colonies were headed up by financial entities rather than governments, and like Earth […]

Claire Keegan (1)

Foster by Claire Keegan

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“Early on a Sunday, after first Mass in Clonegal, my father, instead of taking me home, drives into deep Wexford towards the coast where my mother’s people came from.” This is a novella published by Claire Keegan, who was nominated for the Booker Prize last year for other short novella Small Things like These. Both novellas are good, but then one I liked better for its general tenderness. The other one is a Christmas story and I read it in the summer, so I might […]



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