Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Desperately Wanting

Knot Her Goal by Ari Wright

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Ari Wright has written a delightful bonbon of an Omegaverse why choose romance in Knot Her Goal. It is the first in a series of standalone sports romances set in an Omegaverse world. (I included a definition below for those of you not familiar with the concept.) Meg finds herself in desperate need of a job after being unfairly fired from a marketing job because of her Omega tendencies. The only place she gets an interview is with the football franchise Ospreys, which literally states […]

The Shadow Over Innsmouth – Manga

The Shadow Over Innsmouth - Manga by HP Lovecraft, Gou Tanabe, Zack Davisson

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I picked this up alongside At the Mountains of Madness parts 1 and 2 at Comic Con recently. I hadn’t looked twice at this adaptation but ran into the translator and got to pick these up, signed. Totally worth it. While Michael Beringer’s adaptation is probably my favorite visual Lovecraft adaptation due to the style, the art in these manga is detailed, imaginative, and horrifying. The Shadow over Innsmouth details a young man out on his travels after coming of age (because apparently in spite of […]

Silver Nitrate: a return to horror

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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mood music: Luzbel – pasaporte al infierno Reminiscent of Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno Garcia returns to her Lovecraftian roots with Silver Nitrate. Set in Mexico during the early 1990s, the reader follows Montserrat (Momo), an audio engineer, and Tristan, a washed-up telenovela actor, whose chance encounter with a golden-era director leads them down a path of occultism and nazi worship. Shortly after moving into his apartment, Tristan meets his new neighbor, cult horror director Abel Urueta, after accidentally receiving his mail and delivering it to […]

Happy International Women’s Day to Esther Green

The Keeper's Six by Kate Elliott

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First of all, Thank you, Emmalita, for The Keeper’s Six!  I’ve been rather bad about writing reviews but I want to share how awesome Esther Green is on International Women’s Day.  Esther is a badass, an adventurer, intelligent, determined, Jewish, a mother, a widower, a magical caster called a Lantern, is over 60 years old and still going on fantastical missions!  That’s the type of 60 year old that I hope to be. Esther Green is woken in the middle of night with an urgent call […]

“Just because I’m a librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.”

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

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I am delighted to get to write this review on International Women’s Day. It’s an amazing story about a woman, written by two other women and it’s SO FREAKIN’ GOOD. Go get this book! (Seriously. Go get it. I’m going to sell you on wanting to read it during the rest of my review, I promise, so you might as well “add to cart” now). This book is another great selection of the Schaumburg Library book club so SHOUT OUT to the public library for […]

Second verse, same as the first with differences

Verse V02: The Second Gate by Sam Beck

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After I finished Verse V02: The Second Gate I said, well, time to put in a request for book three Yet, Sam Beck’s next volume is not due until mid/late August 2024. I am not sure I can handle that as I really want to know what happens to everyone and most of us should probably read this (at least) trilogy back-to-back as there is a lot going on and unless you have a great memory, you might have forgotten a few things like I […]



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