Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Old favorite, still great

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

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“She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there–like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.” I’d just like to preface this by saying that, when I was younger, this was my favorite book of all time. Although I have definitely read books that I prefer since then, it is still such a […]

Puzzles for you, not just the characters

The Reader by Traci Chee

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“This is a book, and a book is a world, and words are the seeds in which meanings are curled. Pages of oceans and margins of land are civilizations you hold in the palm of your hand. But look at your world and your life seems to shrink to cities of paper and seas made of ink. Do you know who you are, or have you been misled? Are you the reader, or are you the read?” This book follows Sefia, who fled to the […]

One of us! One of us!

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

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I bought the four-book set for the October Murderbot CBR16 meetup. But when it came time, I had other library books to read, work stuff, travel, etc… Basically, life got in the way. I usually operate very well on deadlines but there was other stuff that was feeding my soul at the moment. Even though I wasn’t ready for the meetup, I was ready to dive in on the back half of my Christmas holidays. This series is such a delight. Suffering through insipid interactions […]

Fun, sweet, and nostalgic

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

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This was a book from my dad’s childhood, which he gave to me a few years ago. Like a lot of books, I just never got around to reviewing it but I revisited it recently, and decided that now was the time to review it. Hidden beneath the kitchen floor is practically another world, or at least another home, belonging to a family of Borrowers comprised of Pod and Homily Clock and their daughter, Arrietty. They are effectively tiny people and, in their home, matchboxes […]

Bandit on the Run

The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

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Antonio Sonoro’s family has fallen on hard times. Though his namesake grandfather was an incredibly rich and powerful mine owner, the family fortune was destroyed by his greed and cruelty, to the extent that Antonio lives on dirt farm with his wife and two children, living near starvation due to prolonged drought. Antonio has turned to banditry as a more lucrative profession, though he curiously tends to give a lot of his ill-gotten goods away before they make it home. But now, in extremis, Antonio […]

Worthy sequels

Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

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A few years ago, I reviewed the first one of this trilogy (Nevermore), but I never got around to reviewing the rest. Since I reread them recently, just for fun, I decided that now was as good a time as any to review them. *SPOILERS FOR NEVERMORE* Morrigan Crow has defeated her curse and become a member of the Wundrous Society. However, while she is hoping for an education with imagination, discovery, wunder, and learning about her powers, she just gets taught about how horrible […]



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