Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Truly Madly Deeply OR Women Figuring Their Shit Out

How to Fall Out of Love Madly by Jana Casale

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Bingo square – HEART – about love Love is never easy. Anyone who tells you otherwise is bullshitting you. Even good love, love that lasts, takes work. The same can be said for friendship. And your career. And just being alive generally right now. It is all hard. How to Fall of Love Madly by Jana Casale drops you right into the middle of the lives of three women that are working their shit out. It can be painful to watch. Like a car crash […]

“My ladies had changed nothing but the reasons for their pretense. If I had learned anything from them, it was this: only a fool lives in water and remains an enemy of the crocodile.”

The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

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Cannonball Read Bingo Square: Shadow Y’all. I finished this book May 17th for my library book club, and I am just now (finally) reviewing it. What. A. Journey. Big props to CBR Bingo for being the catalyst for me getting me out of this backlog and writing slump… The titular Henna Artist (Lakshmi) is a shadow in that she disappeared from her village and has been building a name for herself in the upper social circles of Jaipur as a henna artist. Her past catches […]

“how terrifying it was not to be numb, but to be aware”

Milkman by Anna Burns

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CBR Bingo Square: Monster Damn, y’all. Yes, my summer of Irish fiction continues. Though I’ve had Anna Burns’s Milkman on my shelf for…maybe close to two years?…it’s a read I just kept putting off, and then I let my Instagram friends decide what novel I was gonna read next and this was the winner. Burns won the Booker Prize for this novel in 2018, and I can see why. (Sidebar: As much as I appreciate Margaret Atwood, the daring and deftness of what Burns accomplishes here […]

The Three S-s: spooky, sad, and a little bit sexy

The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel

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Honestly, what else could you need? If you are our Heroine Leigh Wells, you need quite a bit. You’ve been called back to your ancestral island home, far flung from the wild shores of Scotland. World War Two did not hit your home directly, but it stole many young men and sent very few back home. The few that returned are not who they once were. The island is not what it once was. The Sluagh (sloo-ah) still return every October, but every year they […]

A story of profound neglect and trauma dressed up as…gumption, I guess?

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

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I put off reading this book for a long time. I get really skeptical of those summer blockbuster books that everyone just loses their minds over. The only reason I ended up reading this book is because my book club picked it as their July book. For me, this book did not live up to the hype. At all. Caution: all of the spoilers ahead. Kya is the youngest child born into poverty in the North Carolina marsh. Her mother is loving, but struggling with […]

Your next travel destination

Area 510 by Lee Loughridge

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I am assuming that Area 510 is book one in an “unknown amount” of a series by Lee Loughridge, Jay Faerber, Justin Greenwood, and Thomas Mauer (I am assuming Greenwood has illustrated this graphic novel, and Mauer is a big name in the community that I am unfortunately unfamiliar with). But despite any short comings I might have when it comes to knowing the people who created Area 510 (the zip code of the area the story takes place) this is a great start to […]



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