Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Getting dumped is never really about getting dumped.”

Good Material by Dolly Alderton

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I was seeing Good Material by Dolly Alderton all over the place. It felt like the “it” book of 2023, and I immediately had FOMO. This was my first book by Alderton. I started reading it under the impression that I was reading a romance novel. I’m not sure how I came to that conclusion, but I assume it had something to do with the cover and the advertising. As I read, I kept expecting the main character to either get back with his ex or for the […]

Book Mail from Malin!

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Thank you so much to Malin for my lovely gifts!  I’m looking forward to reading both of them.  I’ve heard of The House In the Cerulean Sea but haven’t had a chance to read it myself.  The library hold list for it its ridiculous.  The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy wasn’t on my radar at all, and it looks like it’s going to be quite fun.    I’m going to enjoy diving into both of those.  Thank you again, Malin, and happy holidays!

Out of the Mouths of Nursemaids and Travelers

The Watkins Book of English Folktales by Neil Philip

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England has a great culture of letters, but when it comes to folklore, people often don’t think further than Jack and the Beanstalk. In this collection of English folktales though, we can see that the isles have a great tradition of oral storytelling beyond it. In my ongoing pursuit of folklore from around the world, I never really stopped to consider English folktales until this book reminded me that my knowledge of it was in fact pretty scanty. Over the course of about 400 pages, […]

Circling and Circling

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

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In the near future, six astronauts (well, technically four astronauts and two cosmonauts) spend a day on the International Space Station orbiting the planet sixteen times. While they do so, a separate crew of astronauts prepare for the first moon landing in decades. Back on Earth, a massive superstorm is bearing down on the South Pacific, and the crew is tasked with documenting its progress from space. A spacewalk is conducted, scientific experiments involving lab mice and heart cells are monitored, and the crew does […]

“I hope you are finding your own words out there in my sky.”

The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

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Asuka was the last person chosen to join the crew for humanity’s last hope, eighty elite graduates of a competitive program who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space and one day reach a distant but livable planet. But when a bomb kills three of the crew, investigating it falls to Asuka. I’m trying to get more into science fiction lately, and between the creative world-building and the high-stakes mystery, this book was certainly a good addition to the roster. In […]

The Scarlet Gospels

The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker

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I am a fan of the Hellraiser series in theory but not really in principal. I find the core concept to be absolutely horrifying, and the expanded lore surrounding Leviathan and the Order of the Gash to be outstanding. The comics seem like they do a really good job of expanding on things, but the only actual film media of the series I like is Huluraiser. Everything else is fairly lame, schlocky trash. The books are another issue. The Hellbound Heart is fantastic, and The Scarlet Gospels was […]



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