Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Shorts

The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Great Glorious Goddamn of it All by Josh Ritter

Summerwater by Sarah Moss

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The Refugees – 4/5 Stars This short fiction collection from Viet Thanh Nguyen follows up his debut novel The Sympathizer but is not that much like that novel. Both books are good, but like a lot of follow up fiction collections after a successful first novel, these represent a longer writing period as a newish writer is working to become establish. Among other reasons why this collection might be different and why it’s also successful is that Nguyen is a newly published writer, but is in […]

“Spite was honor when it was the only weapon you had against someone more powerful” – BINGO!

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian

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4.5 stars CBR14: Rec’d (this has been recommended by multiple Cannonballers and pretty much every romance review blog I can think of) Edward Percival “Percy” Talbot, Lord Holland, returns to England after several years abroad in Europe to discover that his mother died in his absence, and his deeply unpleasant father hastily remarried, to Percy’s best friend from childhood, Lady Marian Hayes, who also had time to birth Percy a baby sister. Furthermore, Marian reveals that a blackmailer has contacted her with proof that the […]

Maybe I will read Red, White & Royal Blue after all…

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

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Why do I keep picking up books with so little research? I mean, it’s not the worst thing, but I would’ve read this sooner had I known that it was an unstuck-in-time scenario and not a traditional romance. 70’s lesbian gets trapped on the Q decades after her time and our merry band of queers has to figure out how to fix her conundrum, all while the girl who first discovers what’s going on falls for her? That’s a far better hook than standard cutesy […]

“to each was given days and chances which wouldn’t come back around”

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

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CBR Bingo: Cold Well, the semester started, and away with it went my brain, or at least the part of it I use for writing. Still! I’ve been reading! So time to eke out a review or two before I crumble. Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These came to my attention along with Audrey Magee’s The Colony when it was long listed for the Booker Prize. Magee didn’t make the shortlist, but Keegan did, and Small Things Like These has the honor of being the shortest novel to ever […]

Family Chaos

The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang

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Bingo square – dough – for the cooking elements AND for the significant impact of money on the family and the story generally Also, another BINGO! Every time I read the family name in its plural form, I had to mentally pronounce it, because my mind kept wanting to state “chaos”, rather than the “chow” (fun fact – the parts of our brain involved in auditory processing are full cylinder firing and critically important to reading, even SILENT reading, which is why phonics instruction is […]

Why does nobody talk about this series?

Fire Punch, Volume 1 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Fire Punch, Volume 2 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Fire Punch, Volume 3 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Fire Punch, Volume 4 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Fire Punch, Volume 5 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Fire Punch, Volume 6 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Fire Punch, Volume 7 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Fire Punch, Volume 8 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

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Thank you, YouTube algorithm, for gracing me with a video diving into the Chainsaw Man author’s first series and why I should read it. Based upon how few people have even read this series, I doubt I would’ve ever come across it myself, unless I decided to look up the author myself one day. But barely anybody seems to acknowledge his other works (not even a “from the author of [blank]”), thus I assumed this was his first go-round. I’m overjoyed to be wrong on that one, Fire […]



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