Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Screw Your Courage to the Sticking-Place

Monster Movie! by Chuck Wendig

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Ethan is afraid of everything, so when his best friends Olivia and Harvey insist on him joining in on a screening of a mysterious film considered to be the scariest movie ever made, he refuses outright. However, when the movie turns out to be a monster bent on destroying the town, Ethan must brave his fears if he is to save everyone and everything he loves. There’s a difficult balance to reach with middle grade horror, which I hadn’t thought much before I started reading […]

** Insert joke here ** about losing it …

The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

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This novel was incredibly popular back in 2021 – remember those days? Possibly the worst of the pandemic years. We were all pretty well aware the the pandemic had gone on long enough, but none of us could agree about how to really end it and move on. That isn’t necessarily related to the book itself, but I think it might be related to the book’s popularity. Everything was so uncertain – politics, health, nearly every aspect of social or school or public life at […]

Beep Boop

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

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Annie Bot is a robotic Cuddle Bunny, designed and owned by Doug. Doug designed her to closely resemble his ex-wife who, shock horror, left his judgmental ass because… he’s a judgmental ass! So he does what any asshole with sufficient funds would do: he buys a custom robot to first clean, then pleasure him. Annie Bot is his slave in every regard and she wants nothing more than to please him. She spends her confined life walking on eggshells around him, constantly monitoring his levels […]

The Book of Eight Summers Ago

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

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During one summer off while in college, I worked as a waiter in a tacky chain Mexican restaurant. And for the first two weeks, I was terrible at it. Just awful. Triage was impossible for me. I wouldn’t have lasted half-a-shift at the restaurant in this book. My manager was very encouraging but one of my co-workers just had it in for me. She berated me, belittled me, basically made my life hell because I was a lousy waiter. I eventually got better and by […]

The making of a wizard

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin

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The thrill that comes from reading a classic of any particular genre is you get to see the early formation of that particular class of fiction. That can also be a problem, as the object of inspiration often leads to greater literary feats that can sometimes make the early attempts feel underwhelming. That’s sort of how I felt about the first three books in the Earthsea series, though I definitely got more engaged as I made my way through the trio. A Wizard of Earthsea […]

My new favorite Emily Henry book.

Funny Story by Emily Henry

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“What do we love?” “Your fake relationship,” Ashleigh says. “Well, I don’t,” I say. “Now there’s no good way to get out of it. I mean, when we ‘break up,’ Peter will get to feel smug and superior about that. “That’s no problem,” Miles says, pouring a taste of white wine for each of us. “All we have to do is get married, and then stay together until they split up. And if they have kids, just have one more than them. If they get a dog, we get a […]



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