Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

D is not just for Dog any more.

D Is for Drool: My Monster Alphabet by Amanda Noll

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D Is for Drool: My Monster Alphabet is from the I Need My Monster series.  The lead singers are Amanda Noll and Shari Dash Greenspan with Howard McWilliam on illustrations. We the reader find out that T is for Tentacles, D is for Drool, C is for Claws, and each lyrical letter gets its own monster worded page. Or could share the page but gets its own spot as the parade of monsters walk by to help the young child of the book fall asleep. […]

The Good Sister- First book of the New Year y’all!

The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

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Plot: There’s only been one time that Rose couldn’t stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life. Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week. And she avoids crowds, bright lights and loud noises as much as possible. Fern has a carefully structured life and disrupting her routine can be…dangerous. When Rose discovers that she cannot get pregnant, Fern sees […]

How do you like to rate/review short stories?

Tenth of December by George Saunders

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I have no idea how to review or even rate short story collections but I will start with breaking down individual stories and then go over broader themes I suppose and hopefully have collected a general feeling by the end. This will probably have spoilers since its hard to talk about short stories sometimes without context and in such short bursts the context is…most of it. 1. Plot: The first story follows a multi shifting perspective of a girl who gets kidnapped, a kidnapper, and […]

A Stunning Queer Romance Debut

Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

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I received an ARC of Love & Other Disasters from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Love & Other Disasters publishes January 18th, 2022. I love when you can tell that a book was written from an authentic place, that the author is taking their own feelings, their own emotions, and building out from there to tell an honest story that they hope will resonate with readers. Anita Kelly (she/they) does just that in Love & Other Disasters and I’m so […]

I See Why This Is Popular

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Best for: Those who enjoy interesting, somewhat mystical novels that aren’t extremely fantastical. In a nutshell: Noemí Taboada has been asked by her father to visit her cousin Catalina, who is newly married and living in a giant home in the Mexican countryside. She’s sent a worrying letter, so Noemí is off to investigate and see if Catalina needs help. Worth quoting: “A woman who is not liked is a bitch, and a bitch can hardly do anything; all avenues are closed to her.” Why […]

Who wouldn’t want to be saved from this world of pain?

Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas

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Damascus is the story of Saul of Tarsus, Saint Paul, the man who took the message of Yeshua the saviour to the Strangers.  It is also the story of a cult struggling to become a religion, outliving its founders, pulled in different directions by followers who have built their hope of salvation on their own suffering , struggling to hold onto their belief in the kingdom to come, that surely should be here by now.  “He is risen.  .. Truly, he is risen. … He is […]



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