Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A sip of cozy

Small Hours: A Mrs. Frollein Collection by Valerie Minelli

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cbr14bingo Cozy Level 2 Mrs. Frollein is a woman who has a few bad days, a few good days, and days where she shows her husband(?) her “full moon” as a (adorable) joke. Because she is adorable (even when she toots), she eats, sleeps, deals with every day and beside her is her partner. Small Hours: A Mrs. Frollein Collection collected several of the webcomics and broke them down into the four seasons of the year. There was also (at the time) several never seen […]

Art Imitating Life Imitating Art

Wastelands: The New Apocalypse by John Joseph Adams & Others

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I’m putting together a new class for work that is supposed to cover cross-cultural perspectives, but also be speculative, but also be relevant to ‘kids these days’, so what better place to start than with an anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction specializing in pandemics! Chocked full of terrifying tales, Wastelands: The New Apocalypse includes a variety of authors from different places, cultures, and perspectives all writing about humanity’s deepest and darkest fears. From deadly spores and burning suns to viruses and carcinogenic air, this anthology mines for […]

Also suitable for reading on your comfy couch

Campfire Stories: Tales from America’s National Parks by Dave Kyu and Ilyssa Kyu

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Cbr14bingo Verse — because many of the selections in this tome are poems, and because our National Parks seem to be a ‘verse unto themselves.                       Full disclosure — I have never visited any of the parks featured in this book and I do not camp. I have zero interest in camping or even glamping. When I go on vacation, I want to stay someplace more comfortable than my own house, and I am not […]

Learning to stand up for yourself and do not bite people

Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier

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cbr14bingo Adapt (Camel) Level 2 If Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier book becomes a series (or is a series already as several books today have started as webtoons), it could become the next Heartbreaker series/sensation. However, I like how the book ended and would be fine without a sequel. Or if there is a series, maybe focus on another character, as there are a few that would be fun to learn about. The friendship story we know (best friends drift apart, and […]

Probably should have given up the ghost

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

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cbr14bingo Minds Level 2  At first The Taking of Jake Livingston was enjoyable. There was enough familiar to make it comfortable, but new enough to not be the same-old-same-old. Even a couple of clichés could be forgiven for they did move the story along. Then there were the clichés that bogged it down. Then the ending (SPOILER) where our narrator walks away free of any consequences from his actions. What could have been something different turned into the same old thing. I was rooting for […]

Life Before Us

Life Before Us by Roisin Meaney

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Do you ever read a book by a favorite author and wonder what is going on? Cause I did that at least a dozen times while reading Meaney’s latest. I found her after Maeve Binchy died. A friend recommended her to me because she’s an author that is pretty similar to Binchy, but also has her own way of writing. There have been some misses here and there, but this one was flat out not great from beginning to end. The romance between the two […]



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