Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I want to go to the Irish countryside now, but ONLY to visit

The Searcher by Tana French

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BINGO – REC’D I enjoyed author Tana French’s novel In the Woods and then msvreadsbooks’ review sold me on picking up another French novel The Searcher. Cal Hooper is a retired detective from Chicago who recently bought and moved into a run-down house in a small rural Irish town. He’s determined to keep his head low, not make any enemies of the locals, and enjoy some peace and quiet away from it all. What a boring book that would have been if that’s all that happened. Soon after […]

Titus smiled, “I met the woman I’m going to marry.”

Witch Please by Ann Aguirre

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I have been looking forward to Witch Please for months. I love Ann Aguirre’s books. She has gotten me through the last two years with some parts of my soul and sanity intact. On top of that already solid reason, Courtney Milan said she read Witch Please months ago and, well, the blurb is right there on the cover: “Sheer happiness in a book…”  How can you argue with that? You can’t. Fortunately, I got my hands on an arc and I have read it […]

The Arc of a Scythe was a welcome surprise

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman

The Toll by Neal Shusterman

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This trilogy was of those surprise!sci-fi books I’ve mentioned in a previous review. I had exactly zero idea what exactly the book was about when I picked it up. I was doing Whatever-you-want-a-thon in June, and reading one of the hosts favourites gave extra points. As I had previously got this on Audible, I decided to give it a try and I absolutely loved it. So here we go with bulk reviews. Each book review will contain spoilers for the previous book, but I’ll try […]

Rooting for love to fail?

One Day in December by Josie Silver

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Now, before we get into this, I do not hate love. I actually love love, but this book had me cheering for certain love to fail. This was unusual for me, since usually I’m watching people fall in love who I think are well suited. (I also know that it’s not my job to be matchmaker or to judge others’ love but it’s FICTION PEOPLE). This was super cheesy and totally predictable, but sometimes I need that kind of book in my life. This book […]

Learning and Growing

Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope by Jasmine L. Holmes

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This book was gifted to me by a friend who thought I would enjoy reading it after she had finished. First, I’d like to just say that I appreciate many of my white friends learning to read books by people of color and also educate themselves on non-white issues. This book is written by a black mother to her biological black son, and I reading it through the lens of a white mom with a black son, but there were so many things I learned. […]

Normal People

Normal People by Sally Rooney

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This was another book gifted to me by my cousin Kelsi, she always seems to know which things I’ll like and this was no exception. As a mental health practitioner, I really appreciated all of the discussion about mental health in this book. Each character’s mental health was explored and the background was examined as well. I think it’s super important for young people to explore this in themselves and I found myself taking stock of my own mental wellness and charting my own depression […]



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