Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

New Love and a Complete Bingo Board!

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

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CBR Bingo – Cozy, like two lovers finding each other in old age – and a COMPLETE BINGO CARD! A widow walks into the home of a neighbor (also a widower), and proposes they sleep together. Addie Moore isn’t looking for sex, necessarily – she just feels lonely at night, and she knows that Louis Waters lost his wife some time ago and he might also feel lonely. And he does – he misses having someone to talk to, someone to look forward to seeing. […]

Excellent Book Club Fodder

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

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CBR 14 Bingo – Font (for the font of knowledge you’d get from this amazing school for mothers! jk) This novel would be well suited for a book club – it’s accessible and easy to read, while also brimming with topics that groups (largely of women, often of mothers) enjoy debating. The book has a point of view, but it also leaves a lot of room for the reader to consider and interpret. The title begs the question – what is a “good” mother?  Is […]

To keep or not to keep that is the question

The Baby-Changing Station by Rhett Miller

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Forty odd years ago I was asked if I wanted a baby brother or sister. I said sister. I named my new baby doll Baby Sister.  I was into it.  Few weeks after the ol’ sibling came I looked at my mom and said, “Send her back. I want a brother.” I was informed it didn’t work that way. But if I had The Baby-Changing Station like our character in this Rhett Miller book, I would have picked the guitar. Whatever do you mean? You […]

“Your body was numb to grief; perhaps you had felt it once, but you did not feel it anymore.”

Harrow the Ninth: The Locked Tomb vol. 2 by Tamsyn Muir

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CBR14: Bingo “Funky” – Much of Harrow the Ninth is written in second person perspective which is odd enough on its own but Muir also mixes in first and third perspective as well, making this a truly funky read. Spoilers:  This is a review of a reread and will contain spoilers.  Continue only if you’ve read Harrow the Ninth.  Spoiler Free review here.         Reading Harrow the Ninth the first time was challenging on a variety of levels. I was struggling processing my own grief while reading […]

Between reality and dreaming

Who Owns the Clouds? by Mario Brassard

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I read the English version, of À qui appartiennent les nuages? by Mario Brassard and Gérard DuBois under the name Who Owns the Clouds? Which seems to fit the story look more than the French name. I mean, I love the French title (even though I cannot read it). It looks sexy and has a bit of a tone to it that also fits, but the English translation allows the feeling I had for the book come out. This is an experience book, I cannot tell you […]

How does your garden grow?

Poison Ivy: Thorns by Kody Keplinger

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A few spoilers below: Poison Ivy: Thorns by Kody Keplinger is a solid story about a young girl coming of age and learning about pushing back. Pamela (Ivy to be) is abused in many ways: a classmate, her father, and even herself. The elements that make Pamela into Poison Ivy are actually logical and heartbreaking. After all, you be “mind raped” by your classmate (having lies told about you, being harassed in the hallways), your principal saying to you, “now now little girl, don’t dress […]



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