Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

They Would Walk 500 Miles

The Long Walk by Stephen King

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The premise for The Long Walk, a book written by Stephen King under his Richard Bachman pseudonym, would not be out of place on the Young Adult shelf at your local bookstore. In an vaguely dystopian America, one hundred teenage boys have entered a macabre competition. One morning they set off on a walk, and the last one still walking wins. They have to keep a constant pace of four miles per hour, no bathroom breaks, no sleep, no excuses at all. They get three […]

BookTok Made Me Do It

The Land Where Sinners Atone by V.F. Mason

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Phoenix Hale is convicted of manslaughter for the death of Zachary King’s wife, and he, unsatisfied, arranges to make her life an endless torment. But it turns out Phoenix is innocent, and when she is released, the pair are forced to work together to stop a serial killer before they can strike again. I am not one much for BookTok, but it is a fun way to find books I’d probably not come across otherwise. The video about this book attracted me immediately because of […]

“In the secret code of flowers”

Enola Holmes: The Graphic Novels: The Case of the Missing Marquess, The Case of the Left-Handed Lady, and The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets by Serena Blasco

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After her mother disappears, Enola Holmes runs away from her brothers, the famous Sherlock and Mycroft, and falls into solving mysteries in Victorian London. I have of course seen the promos for the Netflix film Enola Holmes, though I haven’t actually seen it yet. I knew it was based on a series of YA books, but I’d never read them either. So when I saw that there was a graphic novel adaptation on NetGalley, I thought it would a fun introduction. Besides, I like the […]

Going on vacation? Looking for a great read that won’t run out anytime soon? Gotcha covered.

Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore

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Written by a contemporary of Dickens, and a favorite of mine since I was a teen.  Ah, so romantic, and sometimes disarmingly funny too.  So let me set it up for you.  Set in Exmoor during the mid-1600s, young local wrestling champion John Ridd is Gaston, except make him responsible, kind, and with a rather snarky sense of humor, running the family’s large landholding, and caring for his widowed mother and two younger sisters.  Man has his hands full. In an isolated valley, not far […]

Take a bow

Middle School Misadventures by Jason Platt

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My weekend included too much laundry, a miserably cold and rainy Saturday, not feeling well but actually reading a few easy children’s reads (in between getting seating ready on the front porch finally). Granted, most were not huge hits, but Middle School Misadventures by Jason Platt was not a miss. This is a typical slacker kid story who gets by with (a lot of) help from his friends. It is a “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” like story with more realistic, cartoon images. Also, either […]

Baptism of Fire

Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski

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This is the third of the Witcher novels, and the sixth book of the series I have read now, having completed the two story collections, the digressive novel Season of Storms, and the first two of the main storyline. The throughlines of this book: Triss, Philippa, Keira and other witches are banding together to maybe form a matriarchy? Ciri is in hiding, having joined a roving band, helping her solve the mystery of her past and future? Dykstra is plotting (go figure).   As far […]



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