Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I’m Glad Her Mom Died Too…

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

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Growing up, I never could get into iCarly. Trust me, I tried. With my love for Drake & Josh, I certainly tuned in for Miranda Cosgrove’s star vehicle, but not for long. Maybe I’d aged out of Nickelodeon’s live-action content by that point. Who knows? What I do know is that Cosgrove was outshined by her co-star, Jennette McCurdy, the one who only got second billing. And, knowing what I know now, having read her book, I’m simultaneously impressed by and saddened for her. McCurdy […]

Could’ve done with a few more notes…

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

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The problem with picking up books based solely upon their opening lines is you are routinely caught off guard by what comes after that initial bit. With this book, I just assumed what was in store for me was another wrongful conviction story. Boy, I learned right quick that I was dead wrong (pun intended) on that one. I’d have known that if I’d read any of the blurbs on the back, but I tend to skip those. I will say that I was pleasantly surprised […]

‘Fear is the mind-killer.’

Dune by Frank Herbert

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When the Atreides family is betrayed, the heir Paul and his mother Jessica are sent on the run – and into the path that leads to his ultimate destiny. About three quarters through this book, I texted my friend M, who loves this book, the following: Arrakis is the Middle East. Melange is oil. Is Paul a white savior? That’s a very flippant way of looking at a book that carries a lot more within itself than that. Dune is about environmentalism, about religion, about […]

Stories bound together

Boundless by Jillian Tamaki

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Boundless is an odd, artistic, and it is its own special world. It is part graphic novel, part art book, and part short, illustrated stories. The themes created by Jillian Tamaki are familiar but are scattered about with new twists. Of course, sometimes the twists we know as well. It is just a combination that is combined to make that story, or that moment, and nothing else, for now. Each chapter is set up, to have its own look even though Tamaki is the illustrator […]

The illustrations are nice.

Green Arrow: Stranded by Brendan Deneen

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Green Arrow: Stranded is a cozy book, yet I was unsatisfied at the end. Is there a sequel? Why should I like these people? Who are these people? Ollie Queen has an interesting set of morals: don’t kill the wild boar trying to kill you and the others but the snake is fair game? The plane crashes but four of the five people survive, but you never find the pilot? Then again, we never did see them, just some snide comments from the father of […]

My Word

My Word by Gizelle Bryant

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If you don’t know Gizelle Bryant, she is one of the original cast members of The Real Housewives of Potomac. On the show, she’s well known for being divorced from a famous meagchurch in the area. It turns that not only had he been cheating on her, but that he also had a secret family. In the show Gizelle has the air of someone who had been through a lot and learned a lot of lessons from it. She’s also one of the more compelling […]



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