Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Let the Right One In

The Outsider by Stephen King

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A young boy is found violated and viciously murdered in a small town in the American heartland. Police inspector Ralph Anderson soon finds his prime suspect: baseball trainer Terry Maitland has been seen by multiple witnesses, his clothes covered in blood. His fingerprints are all over the place. Ralph, sure he has the right man, goes in to arrest Terry in front of the entire town. The only problem is that Terry seems to have an iron-clad alibi. So why was he in two places […]

Endless Endgame

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

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Peter and Ivan Koubek are brothers dealing with the recent death of their father. Peter and Ivan aren’t really close because of a ten-year age-gap between them and their vastly different personalities. Peter is a lawyer who works for a big firm but also handles crusades like discrimination cases. He is gregarious, a gifted public speaker, and popular with women. Ivan is a 22-year-old former childhood chess prodigy trying to get his game back in form and finally attain the grandmaster status predicted for him […]

A lot is going on in this book

Only the Guilty Survive by Kate Robards

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Trigger Warnings: Mass suicide and Bad Times in a cult are massive plot points in this book, and are mentioned in this review.  A cult living on the outskirts of a town in Michigan commits mass suicide, while the cult leader vanishes.  The only survivor is Claire, who discovered the other members of ‘The Flock’ after they killed themselves.  This wasn’t the first death associated with the group.  A few weeks earlier Laurel Tai who was a) a member of the cult and b) also […]

“But the hubris of excess has mortal consequences.”

Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang

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I found Land of Milk and Honey (2023) by C. Pam Zhang on NPR’s Books We Love List. The description caught my attention, so I put it on hold at my library. One of the first blurbs on Amazon says, “One of the most pleasurable, inventive reads of the year…fiendishly deliciously fun.” Now that I’ve read it, I’d say that’s a bit misleading. I would not use “pleasurable” and “fun” to describe this book, although “inventive” is very fitting. An American woman in her twenties just got a […]

So much ejaculating in this book

The Hidden Hand or Capitola the Madcap by E.D.E.N. Southworth

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FLAMES AND FURIES! Get ready for hundreds of pages of exclamations, ejaculations, and interjections! But really, there is a lot of ejaculating in this book. The Hidden Hand was originally published in the 1850s in serialized form, but later published as a book in 1888. This is an overly dramatic, noir-styled, mustachioed twirling romp in which the characters only seem to speak in all caps and exclamation points. And to give you a feel of the writing, I will be ejaculating several times throughout this […]

Annie are You Okay, Are you Okay Annie?

Misery by Stephen King

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I am a professed Stephen King fan, and one of my don’t call it a goal, but it is like a goal, for 2024 was to read more of his backlist.  I have been avoiding Misery for many years because I like reading more about monsters that are supernatural vs. monsters that are evil people. But 2024 is the year I decided I would give it a chance and overall I am glad that I did. The plot of Misery is that author Paul Sheldon […]



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