Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A middling middle book

Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner

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I read Hannah Kaner’s novel, Godkiller, about a month ago, and liked it enough to pick up second book in the Fallen Gods trilogy, Sunbringer. Godkiller told the story of Kissen, a “godkiller” in the kingdom of Middren. A few years after a war involving the gods, worship is outlawed in the kingdom. Kissen is sort of a bounty hunter, tracking down and removing problematic gods from villages. When she meets a young girl, Inara, who is inextricably linked to a small god of white […]

Some Carryovers from Last Year and Two from This Year

Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

The Cat Who Taught Zen by James Norbury

A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow

A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow

This Fatal Kiss by Alicia Jasinska

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

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Muse of Nightmares I was not expecting that. I was not expecting the call-backs to the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, and that was so cool. This was already a book I was loving, and that bumped it right on up to 5 stars for me. This isn’t a spin-off or sequel, so you don’t have to have read that trilogy to enjoy this one, but I loved the sense of mild continuity. Muse of Nightmares picks up where Strange the Dreamer left off. Minya […]

“Oh,” said Louise, laughing softly. “You came here for a nice dose of schadenfreude, and it didn’t work.” She sang, “Saaaaw-ry.”

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

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Running into 2025 with reading books recommended by people whose taste I really trust (hi, Julia!) but I’ve been putting off for whatever reason. In this case, it’s because I had this vague sense that the book was the anti-A Man Called Ove/Iona Iverson, e.g., what if you’ve got an elderly lead character and she’s not going to have a late-in-life fuzzy-feeling reconnection with the world plot that weaves together her neighbors? And that’s just…not really my vibe, normally speaking. Honestly? It’s not…not that, and it […]

Let’s Try This Again

Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez

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When I was in high school, being a “college track” kid, we had a choice of only one fine arts elective.  For me, it would always be music, never art.  And when I got to college, art was the one elective I could never take, because the textbooks were just so damn expensive.  So even though, I love a good museum, and am willing to examine just about anything that hangs on the walls (looking at you Frank Stella with your solid black canvas – […]

Anyway, here’s Wonderwall

The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman

The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman

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After reading the first three books in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman while traveling between Christmas and New Years, I was excited to continue with the series. In the short time since, I’ve flown through the next three books: The Gate of the Feral Gods, The Butcher’s Masquerade, and The Eye of the Bedlam Bride. These books continue the story of Carl and Princess Donut, his ex-girlfriend’s cat, as they compete in the galactic gameshow, Dungeon Crawler World after the collapse of […]

Not a single clue to these murders is found in a fjord

Hildur (The Clues in the Fjord) by Satu Rämö

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Nowhere Books 2025 Bingo: A book in translation Hildur Rúnarsdóttir is a police investigator on Iceland’s harsh and rather sparsely populated west coast. When she was only a child, her two younger sisters disappeared without a trace, and now she’s the head of the division for missing children in her part of the country. Her only remaining relative is her aunt, who she eats dinner with every Monday. Her aunt raised her after her parents died in a car accident about a year after her […]



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