Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

This is not your Chris Helmsworth’s Thor

Lore of the Havamal by Cat Mihos

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Hávamál ‘Sayings of the high one’ a collection of old Norse poems containing advice for living, proper conduct and wisdom. Lore of the Havamal seems to be truer to the Norse Myths with some fun (and bizarre) thrown in to revise the Ragnarök myth. This explores the world not ending as planned and because of it, Odin becomes a grumpy bartender in Midgard. The images are graphic novel traditional and do not shy away from bloody bodies, BFW (Big F- Wolf), even bigger BFS (snake), […]

I want to try the dish and get a doll of our gal Anni!

Anni Dreams of Biryani by Namita Moolani Mehra

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Anni Dreams of Biryani has a bittersweet ending. And that colored my feelings about the story Namita Moolani Mehra tells. I was on board with our young hero, Anni, as she tries to figure out how to make biryani as well as Uncle (as the man who owns the café across the way is called) does. But no matter what she does, she cannot get the secret from this grumpy (but eyes shining) man. Oh, her biryani comes close, but is not exactly right. And […]

I’m starting to see why Oseman likes Walden so much…

Spinning by Tillie Walden

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After reading a bunch of Alice Oseman’s works, I sought out some of her graphic novel recommendations and it led me back to Tillie Walden. I’d read On a Sunbeam, so naturally Spinning went right onto my to-read list when I saw Oseman mention it. Spinning is simultaneously a light and heavy story. Walden gives us a short slice of life, one without too much major upheaval going on, yet it’s more than that for our main character. She has to move to a new town, […]

At least it was short…

Switch by A.S. King

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In the latest edition of “Travis doesn’t quite get it,” we have Switch by A.S. King. I kept waiting for some sort of lightbulb moment, but nothing ever flicked that switch (couldn’t resist). Switch tells the story of a Tru Beck, a teenage girl from my home state of Pennsylvania, for whom time has ceased to exist. In her world, it’s randomly gone away, but things are still expected to go on just the same. Meanwhile, at home, she lives in what sounds like the house equivalent of […]

Maybe it’s time I actually review some things…

The Push by Ashley Audrain

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For a little while now, I’ve sorta been the voracious reader I once was. Partly due to necessity, as I’d stupidly gone through all those pictures I’d snapped of book covers in places like Target of things for my to-read list and added all (that were available) of them to my library hold list. At any one time, I’ve had roughly a dozen books checked out from the library. Silly me keeps finding new books of interest and adding them to the pile, in addition […]

Holiday Reads: Alsatian Edition

Mortal Causes (Inspector Rebus #6) by Ian Rankin

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

Perfect Silence (DI Callanach #4) by Helen Fields

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Vacationing with young children is hard work, people, even if you’re on a campsite that has not one, but two trampolines (“mum, see what I can do!”). Nevertheless I managed to sneak in a couple of books as I hung about in the (beautiful and very hot) Alsatian countryside, so here goes.  Mortal Causes (Ian Rankin) *** Mortal Causes is Inspector Rebus book no. 6 and though I’ve read the previous five, I had to look that up. I also forgot what it was about […]



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