Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Those podcast episodes must only be, like, 5 minutes long

The Night Swim by Megan Golding

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This was a work book club pick, and I was actually looking forward to it. Unfortunately, I’m adding it to my list of disappointing thrillers. Rachel Krall has a true crime podcast – I’m thinking something along the lines of Serial. For her third season, she wants to cover a case going to trial while it’s in progress, and picks an alleged rape in a small North Carolina town (which seems to be inspired by the Brock Turner case). Rachel travels to Neapolis (yes. This […]

Charity

The Appeal by Janice Hallett

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Poppy, the two-year-old granddaughter of the Haywoods, is diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer, the whole community rallies around them to raise money for her treatment. But not all is as it seems in this little town, and when someone turns up dead on the night of the Fairway Players’ dress rehearsal, the truth must be uncovered. I picked up this book because someone here recommended it (thank you!) and because it’s been a while since I read a good epistolary novel. Certainly I’ve never […]

Green Mars

Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

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This is the second book in the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. This book takes place a few generations after the first book, although because of longevity technology in medical science a handful of the original colonizing crew are still alive. The novel looks at Mars now in the beginning stages of terraforming as the local and colonial politics shape the various decisions being made planet-wide. Earth is in a kind of turmoil because of overpopulation, stagnant economic growth, and political strife. Mars on […]

Workplace horror, but make it kinda boring

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

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I really wanted to love this book. The hype around it (“Get Out” meets “The Stepford Wives”) made me think it would be right up my alley. This is the story of Nella, an editorial assistant at Wagner Books, a prestigious and very white publishing firm in New York. Nella is tired of being the only black employee; her colleagues are not so much overtly racist as cluelessly biased. Nella is also tired of grinding as an assistant for so long, and eager to get […]

Found Family is Just My Favorite Trope, Forever

It's Called A Flush by Deniigiq

Flush: Chatlog by Deniigiq

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My brother is an OG-we-had-the-Darth-Vadar-Cases-for-our-action-figures Star Wars fan. One of the only things my brother says he will never forgive my mom for is falling asleep in the theater when she watched A New Hope for the first time: In her defense, she was 16, and leaving the house childless for the first time since my brother was born, so she was pretty tired. She remembers the words crawling up the screen, a ship, and that’s all folks. New moms everywhere can understand. I know […]

“Mors irrumat omnia. Death f*cks us all.”

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

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Apparently 2022 is the year I decided to become a Leigh Bardugo fangirl. So far I’ve read the Shadow and Bone trilogy as well as the Six of Crows duology from her Grishaverse, and now without even planning it I’ve read another Bardugo novel. I have literally no idea why or when I added this to my library  queue, other than that I first put it on hold before reading any of her other books, and I was probably half way through it before I […]



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