Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

History May Not Repeat Itself But It Does Rhyme

The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick

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Rating: 3.5 Stars In a nutshell: Four women living outside D.C. in the 1960s find themselves at crossroads, motivated by reading ‘The Feminine Mystique.’ Best for: Those who enjoy stories of women finding themselves. Those who need a reminder of where we’ve been given where we are headed. Quote that made me think: “Somebody has to have the babies, don’t they? If they can?” Why I chose it: I was looking for a book about women, written by a women, as I’ve been reading a […]

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The Obake Code by Makana Yamamoto

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Last year, Hammajang Luck was one of my favorite reads, so I was delighted when I saw that there was a book 2 and it was out now and the audio was available through my library. The audiobook becoming available in time for the 2026 Trans Rights Readathon felt like kismet. The Obake Code is largely a standalone, though I do think everyone should read Hammajang Luck because it is excellent. Jolene Kim did a lot as narrator. She had different voices for Malia’s inside thoughts, […]

When the overshadowed friend gets her turn as the MC

The White Cat’s Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon’ King’s Lap by Aki, Kureha, Yamigo

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This was a library impulse grab. The White Cat’s Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon’ King’s Lap (v.1) is as you might guess from the title one of the trendy isekai manga with a long-ish title.  It is also as you might guess total fluff, wish fulfillment for anyone who might have felt overshadowed or overlooked. IT’s basically a Cinderella tale of two childhood friends, one of whom (Ruri) never seems to get to enjoy things for herself thanks to the presence of her golden […]

Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy

Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy

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I went back and forth on this one. And ultimately, I settled on three stars, not because of the subject and how graphic the sex scenes are, but honestly, it just peters out at the 60 percent mark. After that, I really had a hard time believing the Waldo (main character) we have been following and their obsession with Mr. Korgy was the same person. McCurdy perfectly captures the obliviousness of Waldo at 17 and 18, but after graduation somehow she has morphed into a […]

You figure out what the something is pretty quickly 

Something is Killing the Children, vols. 1-7 by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell'Edera, Miquel Muerto

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Something is Killing the Children is an ongoing comic series by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell’Edera, and Miquel Muerto (I copied and pasted all those names). It starts with children disappearing in Small Town, USA – which is somewhere in Wisconsin. There we meet James. His friends’ bodies were found, but many were not. The principal (while encouraging James to punch the kids who say James is so gay that he killed his friends) said it’s probably a rabid bear. Or something. Spoiler (?): it’s […]

This in’t about adoption

Mother Nature by Jamie Lee Curtis, Russell Goldman and Karl Stevens

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SOME SPOILERS and possible triggers (but not as many as are in the book). Sometimes I wonder if people like something because they are “supposed to.” We are “supposed to” like a story about environmentalism. We are “supposed to” like something because the character(s) are of a minority (in Mother Nature by Jamie Lee Curtis, Russell Goldman, and illustrator Karl Stevens they are Native, two characters are queer, and at least two other people are of color). But that does not mean the book will […]



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