Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

That Blue dude is acutally kinda cool

Sonic the Hedgehog, Vol. 5: Crisis City by Ian Flynn, Tracy Yardley, Jack Lawrence, various

Sonic the Hedgehog: Seasons of Chaos by Ian Flynn, Gale Galligan, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy, various

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When you have a lazy weekend because you are not feeling well, it is way too happy and sunny outside (a form of SADs has been linked to too much sun as well as the opposite…. Or if it hasn’t it should be) and you want something quick to read when you’re munching a dry chicken sandwich, you look to the book closest to you and realize your nephew left his books out. And they were Sonic the Hedgehog comics. I figured nope, I won’t […]

The “jujitsuffragettes”

The Bodyguard Unit: Edith Garrud, Women's Suffrage, and Jujitsu by Clément Xavier, Lisa Lugrin, Edward Gauvin and Albertine Ralenti

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Back in July I had some vacation time which I took so I could be with my oldest nephew for his birthday (somehow ice cream tastes sweeter when you share it with him), do some adult (by my standards) reading, and take time to think about what I read, could be reading and will read. Especially in my “out of wheelhouse” category, which actually occurred with some official comic book reading but (maybe) more on that later. The Bodyguard Unit: Edith Garrud, Women’s Suffrage, and […]

Dinos galore

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

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This book was published in 1990, when I was a wee girl of 9. I did not read it the year it came out, but I did read it when I was in sixth grade (so maybe 11?). I’m not sure how I picked it up, because I don’t think my parents read it. I remember thinking “this would be a great movie” (I also thought that about another Michael Crichton banger that became a movie – Sphere). Anyway, I feel like that was the […]

Are we supposed to like this woman? The author sure doesn’t.

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

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There was so much hype around this book that I had to read it. I actually got a new Audible subscription, so I didn’t have to wait for the library to have a copy available. I can’t figure out if I actually liked it though. I originally rated it four stars, but then I downgraded it to three stars. I don’t know if that was based on the actual writing or the characters though. I’m thinking it was probably a combination of the two. Our […]

An Author Who Has Lost the Plot

Under the Falls by Richard Russo

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Eighteen years after leaving his downtrodden Upstate New York hometown (practically sneaking out in the dead of night), singer-songwriter Tyler Sinclair is back to perform a benefit concert. The beneficiary is his old friend Tim “Doc” Dockery, who was injured in a childhood accident that Tyler played a part in, and has been living in a wheelchair ever since. Whether Tyler feels responsible to Doc or not, his presence in Stone Mountain is far from voluntary. Tyler’s bandmates, including backup singer and girlfriend Beth, notice […]

All the world’s a stage

Margo’s Got Money Troubles: A Novel by Rufi Thorpe

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cbr18bingo Clown — features characters who are costumed performers (LARPing, cosplay for OnlyFans, professional wrestling). Cannonball! Margo’s Got Money Troubles is a very clever and entertaining novel about performance, voice, point of view. The narrator is Margo, who, while shifting her voice between first and third person, relates the story of her own shifting persona as a daughter, a single mother, a content creator, and a business person. Margo uses her wits and her heart to try to create the life she wants for herself […]



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