Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Pride and Prejudice and Poetry

Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin

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There’s nothing I love better than a good Pride and Prejudice remake. That’s probably how this book ended up on my TBR. Thankfully, I was finally able to make time to get around to it. Then I caught a ridiculous not-COVID-but-miserable ick and lolled around drinking tea and catching up on Bridgerton for a while. Fortunately, that’s actually pretty good preparation to review a P&P remake. “Indian Muslim Marriage Rituals -South Asian Islamic wedding – 6688416795” by wedstories.studio is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 . Set in […]

They have interesting illustrations

Sleepwalking by Lauren Monger

Grampa by Travis Rommereim

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Sleepwalking by Lauren Monger can be purchased in a bookstore or at Silver Sprocket’s website (and I think they might still have a brick and mortar store as well). You might even be able to get it via your local library. I am not sure why, if you are a nice and normal person. The reason I picked it up (or should say ordered from the website) was because that cover was giving me vibes of something dark, spooky, serious and maybe a little odd […]

Picture it, Haiti, 1930s

When the Mapou Sings by Nadine Pinede

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When the Mapou Sings by Nadine Pinede is a romantic telling of a young girl learning her real place in the world through a perhaps lesser-known piece of history. A bit fanciful at times, and the ending a bit too convenient, but overall well done. A solid 3.5 for the rating and I will be looking for more by this author, but that might be awhile as this is their debut prose poetry novel. Lucilles’s (the narrator and heroine of our story) journey seems as […]

“It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.”

Shift (Silo #2) by Hugh Howey

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It has been a few years since I read the first book of this series, Wool, but I was very excited to return to Howey’s dystopian world, of people living in a silo, with many unanswered quesitons about how humanity got to this point, and what exactly is wrong with the world outside. I was ready to pick back up where book one ended, but was in for a bit of a surprise. In fact, I was quite disappointed, because I DESPERATELY wanted to see […]

“And Now I’m Covered in the Colors”

Silver & Blood by Jessie Mihalik

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As far as I am aware, this is Jessie Mihalik’s first full length fantasy novel but given how much I enjoyed her sci-fi romance novels, I was of course going to read this one. Well, to be clear I didn’t actually finish the third novel of Starlight’s Shadow because the couple was annoying me but the first one in that trilogy was so good! And the Consortium Rebellion is also very much worth checking out. And this book was just fun! Riela has lived in […]

When the walls come tumbling down

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother): A Novel by Rabih Alameddine

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This is a surprising and wonderful novel, managing to bring some light and humor to a grim setting. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) is indeed about main character Raja and his mother Zalfa, but it is also about the modern history of Beirut and its people. Back in the 1980s when I was in high school and college, Beirut was constantly on the news due to the violence and chaos that seemed to be a part of normal life […]



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