Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Witch is a you know… so some heroes gotta stop her

The Witch's Throne volume one by Cedric Caballes

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I like graphic novels, enjoy some fantasy and if a story has comedy and adventure, that is not a turn off. And The Witch’s Throne volume one by Cedric Caballes is all the above.  Set up as if you are playing a Dungeons & Dragon like online game, there are multiple stories going along simultaneously with about a dozen main characters. However, it is not always clear when you are moving onto them, and with the several characters and several story-lines all at once, things […]

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves”

Confessions by Kinae Minato

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  This is the first translated Japanese thriller I’ve read, and it was a pretty good start for the genre. It’s a story of revenge and the collateral damage that comes from it. There was one major plot point which baffled me, which I will address later in the review. The story is told in a stark, straightforward manner with each chapter coming from another character’s point of view. Yuko Moriguchi, a teacher and single mother, addresses her middle school class on the last day […]

Small Wonder

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

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This is a very quick read but no less devastating for it. Set in Ireland at Christmastime 1985, Small Things Like These centers around Bill Furlong, who was born to a teenage mother. Mother and son were luckily taken in by a kind, wealthy woman, and thanks to her generosity Bill now has a very respectable middle-class life. He runs a business delivering coal and he and his wife have five children, all girls. They’ll never be rich but they’re ahead on all the bills […]

Classic Sci-Fi: Should you read it? Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

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Classic Sci-Fi: Should You Read It? is a self-imposed project in which I read pre-1990 science fiction novels and categorize them as “classis sci-fi you should read,” “classic sci-fi you should read if you’re all hardcore about it,” or “classic sci-fi you don’t have to read.” For background on my project, please see the introduction to my review of 1984. Fahrenheit 451 is inevitable for my classic sci-fi reading project because it’s on EVERY must-read list, I didn’t read it in high school like everybody […]

Will You Remember Me?

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

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An unnamed narrator lives on an unnamed island, alone since the deaths of her mother and father some years before. A novelist, her only friends are her editor and an old man who used to be her family’s handyman. When she isn’t writing, she spends most of her time ruminating on the curious nature of life on this island. At unpredictable intervals, things disappear from the island, even from each inhabitant’s memory. On the morning of a disappearance, they all wake up knowing that something […]

These Were Actually Really Good!

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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I chose these as my four Binge books for CBR Sixteen Sweet Books challenge, because I read each book in a single day, then was cranky that I hadn’t made them last longer. I picked up the first book for two reasons.  The first was that I am always on the lookout for something to hand over to The Best Niece in Australia – the quest to be a worthy Aunt is ever-challenging.  The second was that I just really liked the cover.  I know […]



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