Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Dark Force Rising

Among the Burning Flowers by Samantha Shannon

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Even though I enjoy everything I have read by Samantha Shannon and pre-ordered this as soon as I heard about it, I then waited till this past week to read it. I think with this universe in particular, even though Shannon very much made these novels independent enough that they don’t require reading the others to get the story, I still worry about trying to remember and fit them in the larger context before I start reading. I really am overthinking it and creating my […]

Overthinking a romance inspired by Hannah Montana

Love is a War Song by Danica Nava

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This one had a fun premise and overall, was a light and frothy romance but it could have packed more of an emotional wallop. Everything resolved itself a bit too quickly or didn’t go quite deep enough and stayed rather surface level. Nothing about the romantic couple really stood out though it was of course inevitable that they would get together. There was a quite a bit here about dysfunctional relationships with parents but it doesn’t feel like anything was truly resolved in a meaningful […]

The big one hits Portland

Tilt by Emma Pattee

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I am so excited by all of the end-of-the-year book lists coming out. I have so many books to read and so little time. I found Tilt by Emma Pattee (2025) after I saw it on both the Times and NPR’s lists. The NPR blurb about this book made it sound a little more lighthearted and fun than I found it to be. However, it did keep my interest. Annie lives in Portland. She is nine months pregnant, due any day, and picking out a crib in Ikea. She is hungry, […]

What happened to the Hollow girls?

House of Hollow by Kristin Sutherland

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I remember seeing this a few years ago when it came out and thinking it sounded interesting but being on the fence about whether to read it. It was on sale recently so I immediately picked it up. While this is horror, it’s more on the eery/creepy side of the genre than incredibly scary. The Hollow sisters disappeared ten years ago for 30 days, but didn’t remember anything about where they had been or what had happened when they returned. Since then, there have been […]

The Movie is Better than the Book

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns by Lauren Weisberger

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I have watched “The Devil Wears Prada” more times than I can remember. It is a fun movie with a great cast. One of my favorites. So I finally decided to pick up the book, under the theory that the book is always better than the movie. I wish I hadn’t. From the beginning it was clear that this was not going to be the same. Miranda is largely the same, maybe a little more psychotic. Emily is much more sniveling. But my biggest problem […]

Two writers and only one famous figure to interview

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

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This is one of those novels that I quite enjoyed but also didn’t really have anything to say about so I simply kept pushing the review off. As far as Emily Henry novels go, this one falls into the top half of them for me, maybe even top 3. It has a slightly different approach than her previous novels since it also has quite a few flashbacks: our main character Alice is interviewing famous tragic heiress Margaret Ives, trying to get the opportunity to tell […]



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