Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Hellboy Volume 1: Seed of Destruction

Hellboy Volume 1: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola

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To be perfectly frank, Seed of Destruction is not the comic that’s going to make you a fan of Hellboy. My source for this is it’s the first Hellboy volume I read and I didn’t like it for a VERY long time. The thing about Hellboy is that it’s at its best when it’s weird, exploring obscure mythology, and funny. This comic basically opens with Hellboy’s father figure dying (spoilers if you can’t see the most obvious thing happening as it happens) and Hellboy monologuing about […]

A Strong Start to a Popular Series

Game Changer by Rachel Reid

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Scott Hunter is the NHL’s Golden Boy, former captain of the US Olympic team, and captain of the New York Admirals. He’s also in a slump, having the worst season of hockey in his nine years in the league. That all changes when he stops for a post-run smoothie and meets Kip, the incredibly hot guy making the smoothies and flirting with Scott. The two start seeing each other, but there’s a problem – Scott is still in the closet, and not ready to come […]

Kinga is having a rough week

A New New Me by Helen Oyeyemi

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A New New Me is narrated by seven different characters, each a different personality occupying the same body. Kinga Sikora has a personality for each day of the week. Kinga-A is capable and optimistic and handles Mondays. Cynical Kinga-B is in charge on Tuesdays. Kinga-C spends each Wednesday flying by the seat of her pants. Thursday’s appointments and errands are handled by Kinga-D, the “self-care queen.” Dreamy Kinga-E drifts through her Fridays, and Kinga-F parties hard every Saturday. Kinga-G…well, nobody knows much about Kinga-G, but […]

Better to Have Loved and Lost And be Literary Apparently

Artful by Ali Smith

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I’m not sure the best way to come into this novel. I came in knowing nothing about, feeling confused by the end of chapter 1 and then diving into internet search to find out more. This a slow moving meditation on loss and love, how our lives enmesh with those around us and the imprints their leave on them when they go. It’s based on a series of 4 lectures Ali Smith gave; On Time, On From, On Edge, and On Offer and On Reflection. I say based […]

It’s Not That Deep, Except That It Is

Female Fantasy by Iman Hariri-Kia

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Last week I sat down to read Iman Hariri-Kia’s new novel, Female Fantasy. I stayed up until 2 a.m. to finish it, and I don’t want to review it so much as just hand it out. You get a copy, and you get a copy, and you and you and you get copies. Everybody on BookTok gets a copy. Most importantly, everybody who’s ever looked down their nose at romance in general or romantasy in particular gets a copy.  Everyone can read it, have whatever […]

Lady’s Man? Check. Doctor? Check. Master Tracker? Well, OK!

Present Darkness by Maslla Nunn

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This is the last of series I’ve been reading starring Detective Sergeant Cooper, Detective Constable Shabalala, and Doctor Zweigman in 1950s apartheid South Africa, or, as I have come to think of them, as Kirk, Spock and Bones (assuming Spock were a family man).  It is that family that is in the thick of this book.  Shabalala’s teen aged son has been accused of the murder of a white couple by their teenaged daughter.  That seems to be hard to believe, but she is sticking […]



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