Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Step up to the Plate

Out of Left Field by Jonah Newman

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I saw the online reader’s copy of Out of Left Field, several months ago and I saved the link for a rainy day. And recently I saw that it was due soon (the end of March 2024 to be precise) and figured I better give it a shot or I would probably lose the chance. What started as a memoir for Jonah Newman, turned into a fiction rendition of his life. Things are clever, humorous, cozy, familiar, fresh, and relatable. Things move quickly enough in […]

Wednesday’s child might be full of woe, but our Wednesday keeps on trying

Wednesday Wilson Connects the Dots by Bree Galbraith

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I was not really the audience for the book Wednesday Wilson Connects the Dots. However, it is well written by Bree Galbraith, has good representation with a diverse cast, and is a familiar story of friendship, business sense and valuing yourself and work. The illustrations by Morgan Goble help transition from a mostly illustrated read to a mostly text read and gives you pieces that might not be picked up by the words. I was not aware this was a series until after reading, so […]

After Days

The Guest by Emma Cline

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I only picked this book up because Quinta Brunson is adapting it. I hope she does. At any rate, I’m glad I did. Until the end, it was very good. I remember liking the story Emma Cline told in The Girls but not the way she did it. It was a compelling tale but painfully overwritten. I didn’t think I’d find myself coming back to her work and, even with its interesting premise, I avoided it last year despite its popularity. But once I started, I […]

Enter the IKEA-verse

FINNA by Nino Cipri

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“Of course Jules was alive, they had never faced a challenge whose ass they couldn’t kick, and they had the stores of righteous rage that all retail employees collected.” ― Nino Cipri, Finna “It’s okay,” Jules said. They looked….not calm, exactly, but not scared. They looked, as they had for most of their trip, thrilled that they weren’t getting misgendered while answering customers’ stupid questions about how much weight a towel rod could really hold. ― Nino Cipri, Finna Ava works at LitenVärld and she […]

The Value in Horrible Things is What You Make of Them

There Are No Saints by Sophie Lark

There is No Devil by Sophie Lark

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Sophie Lark has written herself a duology that is seriously dark and twisted with There Are No Saints and There is No Devil. Go ahead and insert a blanket trigger warning here. If you are easily offended or triggered by any thing, this is not the set of books for you. In fact, I almost didn’t start them when I realized that Cole, the male lead, is a serial killer, and that the female lead, Mara, is his latest obsession. Because that is messed up on […]

“No life is ever in the skinniest bit predictable.”

People Collide by Isle McElroy

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Can you imagine gender-bending body switching done well? A novel in which both bodies and minds are taken seriously, even amid the most impossible of circumstances? Isle McElroy, who also identifies as non-binary, manages to capture the necessity and insignificance of gender in this brief, genius novel. The premise – a newly wed couple in their later 20s, living in Bulgaria, wakes to find themselves inhabiting one another’s bodies. We exist primarily in the perspective of Eli, who discovers that while his thoughts are his […]



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