Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Wish You Were Here

The Balloon Hunter by Hugh Howey and Elinor Taylor

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cbr17bingo – review (from TikTok) I think this might be the most unique book I’ve ever read. It’s a short novel told exclusively through postcards (that seem to be actually hand-written). The two characters are Rita, who writes the postcards and sends them out attached to balloons, and Clayton, who finds them and writes on the backs as a sort of journal. We learn from these postcards that there was an apocalypse of some sort, and Rita’s postcards bring Clayton hope. He sets off to find […]

Oof

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

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[Check content warnings: there are a lot of them.] After Banned Books Week, a friend decided that as a way of encouraging people to read banned books year round, she’d create a banned books book club, and The Bluest Eye was the first selection. This is only my third Morrison book (loved Beloved, was not a fan of God Help the Child), and I’m glad I read it, but it is not an easy read. It is intense, distressing, and bleak. There is almost no hope to be found this book. […]

“Gods are among us and they care nothing and are nothing like us.”

Kraken by China Mieville

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Cannonball Read Bingo: Black This. book. has. everything.  Sentient tattoos, supernatural picket lines, spearguns, squid cults, invisible truffle pigs, and human origami. What’s human origami, you ask? It’s that thing of when you use magic to fit an adult man into a envelope and then send  him in the mail to one of your enemies. Kraken is a police procedural, and a horror novel, and a fantasy satire.  But mostly it’s about the end of the world. It follows the misadventures of Billy Harrow, a […]

Wolves and vampires, oh my…

Dire Bound by Sable Sorenson

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Dire Bound by Sable Sorenson is a Romantasy based in a world where humans pair up with enormous dire wolves to fight off the siphons, a nation of vampire-like creatures. As Dire Bound opens, Meryn is working in a laundry by day and underground fighting by night for extra cash. She is the sole support of her mentally ill mother and younger sister, Saela. Her sister is the bright shining light in her life. Her father was killed years ago in the war with the […]

Riveting and Original Thriller

Underground Airlines by Ben Winters

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Bingo: Green Every day is two worlds; every day we split into two.” I often can’t remember when or why I picked up a book for my TBR. I’ve had Ben Winters’s Underground Airlines for quite a while, but I don’t know what led me to the book. A review? Browsing in the bookstore? However I came across it, I don’t think I realized how good it would be. It is the 21st century and four states–the Hard Four–still allow slavery. This came about through […]

We’re Wolves

Mate by Ali Hazelwood

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CBR Bingo: ‘Black’ The last few Ali Hazelwood books I’ve read have been sort of hit-or-miss for me. I enjoyed Not in Love, was conflicted about Problematic Summer Romance, and hated Check & Mate (it wasn’t a bad book perse, I just don’t think I was the intended audience). I do however really enjoy her writing style, and I’ve been cautiously optimistic about Mate, recently released and the follow-up to last year’s Bride (which was actually the first book of hers that I read). The narrator […]



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