Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Just like traditional pairings, only poly…..

Ask Me About Polyamory: The Best of Kimchi Cuddles by Tikva Wolf

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Ask Me About Polyamory: The Best of Kimchi Cuddles by by Tikva Wolf, forward by Sophie Labelle    If one is curious about polyamory but wants something easier than a full on text, then this might be the one you need. You will take away from it what you put into it. My personal take was that some things helped me understand the subject, other things I felt made things even more confusing, sometimes I thought she was preaching to the converted, and some comics […]

We can lose everything but our hope and dignity

The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende

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  I appreciate the works of Isabel Allende and here her story-telling approach for showing the grand narrative of history through the story of a family across generations is brought to Trump’s 1st presidency. Like with her other books, this one weaves together the lives of 3 main characters, Samuel and his early life in Nazi Austria and then his adult life, Leticia originally from El Salvador but now living in the US, and Anita a little girl trapped in the asylum system during Trump’s […]

Never Use the Metro Elevator

Just Emilia by Jennifer Oko

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Warning: Spoilers Just Emilia by Jennifer Oko is a story about a middle aged woman who gets stuck in a Washington, DC metro elevator with her teenage self and her elderly self. As a teen, Emilia’s mom, a popular news anchor, dies in a horrible car accident. Emilia blames herself and this guilt follow her into adulthood, affecting all of her relationships. On the anniversary of their mother’s death, each woman takes a decision which brings her to the elevator. The three women must learn […]

Not what I wanted from this concept :(

The Names by Florence Knapp

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To sum up, this was not for me! Move along if that’s enough for you. I have a lot of conflicting thoughts about this book and why it didn’t work for me, but after the great first several chapters, I quickly found myself souring on it. The Names is literary fiction with a speculative twist: a woman named Cora has been tasked with registering her newborn son’s name, and the book splits off into parallel narratives with different stories created by her three different choices of […]

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

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I had started and stopped this one a few times. Not because I did not enjoy it, but honestly because it was a lot to read in one sitting. The word haunting comes to mind as I think about this one along with sorrow and pain. I felt for all of the characters we are introduced to in this one and for the main character we get to know who loves animals and feels nothing but pain at what the locals who live among her […]

Prolonging my time in the Cold Magic world with short stories and essays

The World Begins in Ice by Kate Elliott

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I first learned about Kate Elliott’s Cold Magic series while reading John Scalzi’s website.  In the Big Idea section Elliott described what The History of the World Begins in Ice is all about.  It is a collection of short stories written in the “Spiritwalker Trilogy” as well as essays about the characters and aspects of the world.  The trilogy sounded fascinating, to quote Kate: When I began writing Cold Magic, my primary goal (besides making it shorter than Traitors’ Gate) was to tell a story that would […]



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