Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Wicked good time

Mellybean and the Wicked Wizard by Mike White

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It was a shiny cover. It was a colorful cover. And it was a slippery cover. Mellybean and the Wicked Wizard seemed like a perfectly, fun, easy read I needed to clean my busy brain. And I thought it was the first in the series, as there was no “Book Two” that I could see. And while it is a cute book, read volume one first. Mike White’s graphic novel for ages six to ten/eleven, has sweet animals (a rambunctious puppy, a few cool cats) […]

The Sparrows are Flying Again

The Dark Half by Stephen King

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Thad Beaumont is a university professor and novelist with two books to his name, one of which was nominated for a National Book Award. However, his greatest success is as the man behind the pseudonymous George Stark, whose four ultra-violent novels have all been bestsellers. At the beginning of The Dark Half, Beaumont has decided to retire the Stark persona after a nosy fan figured out who was behind it. To get ahead of the game, Beaumont participates in a People magazine story publicly coming […]

Just… so many cops

The Night Thief by Joy Ellis

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I’ve been looking for a book with a landscape on the cover for such a long time. And since it’s October and I was in the mood for spooky reads, I thought I couldn’t go wrong with a thriller. How hard could it be to find? I’m honestly amazed that I didn’t give up on what appeared to be a fool’s errand. Alas, NetGalley came to my rescue. The Night Thief is a procedural crime book, which will be out on November 18th, and I got a […]

Heartbreakingly, aggravatingly, not for me.

Ararat by Christopher Golden

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I wanted to post this as its own review because reading and thinking about this book made me so mad that it spurred me to catch up on my reviews just so I could talk about this stupid awful book. I’m being mean because I was so hopeful at the beginning and so let down so quickly. Ararat by Christopher Golden is about an archeological/documentary/explorer crew who, while on a dig documenting what appears to be Noah’s Ark thousands of feet above sea level on […]

Playing Catchup

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

Night Train by David Quantick

The Lost Village by Camilla Sten

Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman

Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang

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Listen, sometimes you graduate from college, panic about your future, land a job, and move to a new city and even though you’re reading a couple books a month you forget about the whole reviewing part. I’ve still got 6 more reviews to write from May-September reads, but here are a few from May and October. (I wrote half of the May ones in May so they might be a little outdated. A group of housewives in a suburb of Charleston, SC in the 90s […]

Rep Square: The Good Sister

The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

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I’m using this as my REP bingo square.  The Good Sister is told from the perspective of two Australian sisters (and twins), Rose and Fern. Rose is an accomplished interior designer married to a wonderful man and all she wants is to be a mother. Through her journal entries, however, we hear about her fraught relationship with her own mother’s narcissistic ways.  And Fern, while not explicitly identified as such, seems to have Autism Spectrum Disorder given her sensory processing issues, social discomfort, and love […]



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