Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Killing a calf is the worst of the worst you know. Beside it, breaking a promise is nothing really. Nothing at all.”

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

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In One Word: Heart-stopping Cannonball Read Bingo Square: The Wilds My friends (not my friends, my pretend internet friends) on my favorite podcast Literary Disco read this book and Tod said it was the scariest thing he’d ever read, really talked up how terrifying it was. It’s been quite a while since I read anything horror, so I was intrigued. A friend of mine happened to be down for reading it as well, so a two-woman book club was born! We journeyed down this road […]

It was the ring of counterfeit Elvis robots that did it for me, honestly.

The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

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“He can’t shake the feeling that this place is some sort of pyramid scheme, and that those who fail to understand that will be left empty-handed. But there’s no obvious reason for this feeling of his. Maybe he’s ungrateful by nature.” The nation is in economic ruin. Everyone is fighting for whatever scraps are left. Which is why Charmaine is grateful to have a job as a bartender, even if she and her husband Stan are living in their car and moving every few hours […]

Gender-bent re-imagining of Sleeping Beauty with a dash of Indiana Jones

The Bone Spindle by Leslie Vedder

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BINGO – READER’S CHOICE/WHITE WHALE (I’m still planning on reading my original White Whale choice, but I just don’t have the brain space at the moment) Briar Rose, prince of the Kingdom of Andar, is born on the verge of death. His mother reaches out to a powerful witch, the Spindle Witch, to use her magic to save her son in exchange for sharing knowledge of terrible and forbidden magic. The Spindle Witch saves the prince, but the queen walks back on her promise. Seeking […]

A Kennedy I know little about.

The Kennedy Debutante by Kerri Maher

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“If you didn’t know already that Kathleen’s a fighter,” said Rose, her normally shrill voice unusually smooth and low, “then you haven’t been paying attention.” Growing up as a Kennedy woman comes with a specific set of rules. The first being: marry a good Catholic boy from a notable family. The second being: Once you’re married, your only jobs are to have children and keep a full social calendar. Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy is aware of what is expected of her as she is presented to […]

My Life with Ariel

Sea Witch by Sarah Henning

The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen

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When we were selecting which title we wanted to lead for #CannonBookClub, I offered to take The Little Mermaid and Sea Witch⁠—having seen the Broadway show once and the animated movie approximately 10,000 times with my two daughters, I thought I surely knew the source material.  A couple of days later, I was coincidently  recommended Malcom Gladwell’s podcast Revisionist History, and the next 3 episodes he aired was a series on the movie. (Listen to Episode 1 and/or read the article by the guest of […]

All We Need of Hell – Harry Crews (1988)

All We Need of Hell by Harry Crews

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If you told me you hated Harry Crews and everything he wrote, I wouldn’t argue with you. But if you ever make Florida Man jokes, and maybe need to understand a little more, well, he’d be a good source. Harry Crews writes about toxic masculinity, and especially in the cases where said masculinities are not explored within the minds and hearts of its adherents. Duff Deeter is a small town lawyer in Florida, cheating on his wife, who is cheating on him with his legal […]



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