Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Does she?

Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro

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BINGO: Rep: Disability Best for: People who enjoy mysteries but who are also interested in deeper writing and social commentary. In a nutshell: Elena’s daughter Rita was found dead, hanging from the bell tower of their church. It is determined to be suicide, but Elena knows otherwise. Worth quoting: “She continues on, as if no one else existed, just like she feels no one else knows she exists.” “Not long ago I was told I was arrogant. Don’t keep the names other people give you.” […]

Werther is a selfish, entitled, overly dramatic arsehole and I am glad he is dead

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Content Warning for suicide. I am kind of sad this book marks my first cannonball, but oh well… When book bingo asked for a “White Whale”, I had a hard time picking a book. It’s just that I couldn’t think of anything I’d been meaning to read forever. And then I remembered the audiobook I bought back in 2016 when my bookclub read it, but I never did. It’d been sitting on my phone for over 5 years, and it was only a little over […]

“I have picked up the old stories and I have shaken them until the hidden women appear in plain sight. I have celebrated them in song because they have waited long enough.”

A Thousand Suns by Natalie Haynes

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  In one word: Refreshing Cannonball Read Bingo: Mythic Y’all. Y’ALL. I HAVE BEEN SO FAR BEHIND IN REVIEWS FOR LIKE TWO MONTHS AND WITH THIS ONE I AM ALL CAUGHT UP AND I HAVE MY FIRST BINGO YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY. Thank you. Where was I? Ah yes. The book! A Thousand Ships was one I found on the new releases shelf at my library and a) it looked pretty and b) was recommended on the cover by Madeline Miller, author of Circe, and c) I was […]

“I don’t do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you’re already halfway down.”

Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4) by Tana French

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In one word: Gripping Cannonball Read Bingo: Shelfie Review 2021: Hi. Me again. Hear with more French fervor. Love. Her. I have the latest installment of the Dublin Murder Series on my bookshelf, and in fact, I think I’ve had it for months. But once I read it, I am caught up, and I can’t quite face that. So as a pandemic project I decided to reread all of them to then make my way to the most recent installment. I’m here to report that […]

Not-so-Normal People

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

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Beautiful World, Where Are You (which should really have a question mark at the end, if you ask me) is being hyped up as the must-read book of the Fall. Sally Rooney’s first two novels were both big hits, with Normal People going on to be adapted into a massively successful TV series. (The adaptation of her first novel, Conversations With Friends, will be released next year.) Rooney herself is an unlikely superstar. The self-professed Marxist seems uncomfortable with fame and ambivalent about the financial […]

Even the sophomore slump is a great read

Tris's Book by Tamora Pierce

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BINGO – Landscape (technically a seascape, but I think it counts) We pick up with the four powerful mage children Sandry, Tris, Daja, and Briar not long after the earthquake that struck Winding Circle in Sandry’s Book. The earthquake has damaged many of the Winding Circles defenses, and pirates threaten to invade the surrounding villages and Winding Circle itself to steal priceless magical tomes and artifacts, as well as take mages as slaves. The four children and their teachers must fight against the pirates in any […]



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