Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes- Maybe I’ve just read too many books about narcissists?

A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

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It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the […]

Travis McGee and the Motorcycle Men

Free Fall in Crimson by John D. Macdonald

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This is the 19th entry in the Travis McGee series, and it’s starting to show its age. Free Fall in Crimson takes up after the events of The Green Ripper, in a rare example of series continuity. McGee is reeling from the loss of his partner Gretel and reluctant to take on an investigation into the death of an acquaintance’s father. Ron Esterland, a successful painter, was on the outs with his plastics magnate father and had been cut out of his will. However, there […]

Garfield, Revisited

Garfield: Stepping Out by Jim Davis

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Come along, gentle reader, on a journey to another time. A time when the internet was a mere twinkle in a nerd’s eye. When Everybody Wants to Rule the World was a smash hit single. When Amadeus won Best Picture at the Oscars. This was also the year one of the many Garfield pocket books was published, this one being Garfield Steps Out. Why is it called Steps Out? Well, there is absolutely no reason, as far as I can tell. But the escapades of […]

Mean Sabine

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

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This book is about three lesbian vampires. One is Scottish, one is English, and the other one is mean as hell. The Scottish vampire, Alice, is the newest vampire, and for me, the least interesting. I think that’s why her character arc surprised me the most. Sis went from high anxiety to a high body count (in the murder-y way) real fast. The English vampire is Charlotte. She is the second oldest and the most sympathetic, in my opinion. Girlie just wanted to be with […]

A Low-Angst Queer Hockey Romance

Tough Guy by Rachel Reid

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Ryan Price may just be one of the most feared men in professional hockey. He’s the enforcer, the player charged with protecting his teammates with his fists, if he has to. But for whatever reason he can’t seem to stay signed to a team for more than one season. Besides dealing with the constant upheaval of having to move cities every year, Ryan also struggles with general anxiety, especially around flying – which isn’t something a pro hockey player can exactly avoid. But he’s hopeful […]

Things You Never Want to Find in the Deep Dark Woods

Knife Creek by Paul Doiron

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Welp, those feral hogs have somehow managed to make their way up from Texas to the hinterlands of Maine (Seriously?  Yeah, really.)  But when game warden Mike Bowditch is asked to take care of them (they are in his neck of the woods after all), he also discovers the recent shallow grave of a dead baby well, at least, most of it.  At least there is DNA evidence. Which, oddly enough, matches the DNA of a young woman who went missing on a rafting trio […]



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