Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Get in touch with your inner wolf

Fan Service by Rosie Danen

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I really loved Fan Service. It touched on so many things, but what I loved most was the way Rosie Danen dug into conforming to expectations versus authenticity. Devin Ashwood is a washed up actor who badly wants to be back in the role for which he is best known – Colby Whitaker werewolf FBI agent. Alex Lawson was once the Moderator on the biggest fan site for the tv show, The Arcane Files. Both are treading water. When Devon is caught on video actually […]

The cake is full of rum… and yummy secrets

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

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It took me a while to finish reading “Black Cake”, not because it wasn’t good, but because my life feels — as always — like it’s in flux. I feel like I’m always playing catch-up, always trying to check the to-do boxes on my list, always trying to wait until I’m calm enough to sit down with a book. Here’s a (not well-kept) secret: I’m not sure I know what calm means. My mind is always running. But Black Cake is extremely readable. The chapters […]

Bear

Bear by Marian Engel

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Fishwives. Fishwidows. And we all set out to be mermaids. ― Marian Engel, Bear The world was furred with late spring snow. It was the soft, thick stuff that excites you unless you are driving or half dead, packing snow already falling in caterpillars off the greening branches. ― Marian Engel, Bear This is the story of a woman who sequesters herself in a remote area of Ontario, Canada, to catalog an estate bequeathed to the Canadian government. In her isolation, she finds herself, breaking […]

Jack, in his dark camps, saw Ennis as a night fire, a red spark on the huge black mass of mountain.

Brokeback Mountain by E. Annie Proulx

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Going up, the day was fine but the trail deep-drifted and slopping wet at the margins. They left it to wind through a slashy cut, leading the horses through brittle branchwood, Jack, the same eagle feather in his old hat, lifting his head in the heated noon to take the air scented with resinous lodgepole, the dry needle duff and hot rock, bitter juniper crushed beneath the horses’ hooves. Ennis, weather-eyed, looked west for the heated cumulus that might come up on such a day […]

Home missing you too

Homesick by Audrey Vernick and Liza Garton

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Have you ever been homesick for your home, family, a friend or place? Mostly likely you answered yes. However, have you ever thought that maybe your home is homesick for you when you go away? In Audrey Vernick and Liza Garton’s picture book (due August 2026) Homesick, that is what happens. The child of the story goes off to their grandparents home. The house became sad, missing its child and the story goes through the emotions. We even see how the parents mention how things […]

The book that was read to me

The Christmas Snow Globe by Sibylle Delacroix

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I had the opportunity to have The Christmas Snow Globe by Sibylle Delacroix “read” to me via a YouTube video. However, I have read it before (both  times I am assuming via an online reader). Both times I felt the story was sweet, funny and cute. However, the adult me isn’t a fan of sledding down the stairs! The kid me wonders where can I find a sled?  It is hard to talk about it, unless I tell you the story. Two children are waiting […]



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