Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Late arrival on the Colson Whitehead Train, but I’m here to stay

The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead

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I’m using this as my #machinery square in Bingo!  I originally bought this book for an undergraduate class, like 15 years ago. And we never got around to reading it. Ever since, it’s been on my “to read” list.  I can’t believe I waited so long!  Colson Whitehead has risen to prominence for his other works – especially The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle – but this is his first novel. And it’s fantastic.  The Intuitionist takes place in an alternate […]

CBR Bingo: A new Series and a recommendation!

Stealing from Wizards Volume 1: Pickpocketing by R.A.Consell

Stealing From Wizards Volume 2: Burglary by R.A Consell

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I thought this would be one of the hardest categories for me to meet for bingo- but this series was first published in November 2019, so New series it is. I picked this up on the recommendation of Epbot- and am very glad i did. It is about Kuro, a young boy living on the fringes of magical society in Canada. He primarily lives in a magic city that connects with different real world places. He serves a dark magician who has fallen on very […]

CBR Bingo- What does home mean?

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Down among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

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This fills the Home square of the CBR Bingo card quite nicely! It’s taken me a long time to get around to reading the Wayward Children series and i actually started with book 2- Down among the sticks and bones. Wayward children is about a school/home for children who have been “taken into fairyland”. There are many lands, all of them different from outs. There is a rough schematic of how these worlds fall relative to each other- between logic and nonsense and virtue and […]

Who’s the Crazy One Here?

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

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Hangsaman, with its odd title and even odder plot, feels like a close approximation of what it actually must be like to be insane. In free indirect discourse, Jackson takes the reader into the mind of 17-year-old Natalie Waite as she leaves home for the first time and starts studying at an all-girls college. Natalie is a creative, lonely girl with a domineering writer for a father and a mother who burdens Natalie with her many regrets in life. At a party thrown by her […]

“Don’t you think it’s possible that this could be good? That maybe this won’t lead to disaster after all? What if we find out that we fit together, like your grandparents and their hands?” (Bingo #8)

Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon

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Blackout is a novel comprised of several short stories covering five hours in the course of one night in New York as it experiences a blackout. Tiffany D. Jackson writes The Long Walk which is broken up into five acts, Nic Stone contributes Mask Off (perhaps my favorite of the bunch), Ashley Woodfolk’s Made to Fit, Dhonielle Clayton provides All the Great Love Stories… and Dust, as well as being the person who sparked the project into existence, Angie Thomas’s No Sleep Till Brooklyn, and […]

But how we are remembered is less important than what we do now.

Lore by Alexandra Bracken

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CBR13 BINGO: Mythic Square BINGO! (Book Club Square to Free Square diagonal) I was looking for something to tick the “Mythic” square off my CBR Bingo card and wanted something that was heavy on the re-telling and light on requiring PhD level knowledge of Greek mythology in order to “get it.” This fit the bill but I think if I had a better memory for the mythology class I took 100 years ago in college it would have been helpful. This a YA mythic send […]



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