Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Rogue Protocol

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

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The two middle Murderbot diaries, Rogue Protocol and Exit Strategy, are the ones I tend to have the least to say about. They remain as good as ever, with the character continuing to evolve and figure out what makes Murderbot Murderbot, but they still feel like filler to a small degree. In Rogue Protocol, Murderbot heads to an abandoned GrayCris terraforming platform so that it can figure out what the full extent of GrayCris’ illegal activities encompass, with the purpose of sending the data to Dr. […]

A hockey romance with less hockey and more coping with grief

Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday

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CBR16 Sweet Books: Exciting (I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time, and was VERY excited to get an ARC shortly before the release date. Nowhere Bingo: A book with multiple POVs This was an audio ARC from NetGalley. My opinions are my own.  When Aurora “Rory” Evans was a lonely teenager, she ran into a handsome Canadian hockey player while she was selling coffee at the Mall of America. She took his name and pretended to have an actual Canadian boyfriend, making […]

What the Dickens is This?

The Fraud by Zadie Smith

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It’s perhaps emblematic of the problems with The Fraud that I had so much trouble figuring out how to describe it to you. The Fraud of the title most obviously refers to the real-life court case inspiring the narrative, in which a man arrives in London claiming to be the long-lost Sir Roger Tichborne and demanding his inheritance. To most people, the claimant is a transparent fraud, whose story doesn’t hold up to the smallest amount of scrutiny. However, he becomes a cause celebre among […]

Are you ready to think about tomorrow?” he asked.

The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond

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I do love a heist, and Gwenda Bond’s The Frame-Up is a good story wrapped around a heist. I think it’s a standalone, but I would not say no to more of this crew doing their version of a heist with magic in the future. Dani Poissant has been working solo in the decade since she turned her art thief mother in to the FBI. She’s a Robin Hood style grifter – targeting bad people, taking their money, and giving a big chunk of it to […]

I used to care when men called me difficult. I really did. Then I stopped. This way is better.

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Art doesn’t owe anything to anyone. Songs are about how it felt, not the facts. Self-expression is about what it feels to live, not whether you had the right to claim any emotion at any time. Did I have a right to be mad at him? Did he do anything wrong? Who cares! Who cares? I hurt. So I wrote about it. ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six It’s funny. At first, I think you start getting high to dull your emotions, […]

For the dead travel fast

Dracula by Bram Stoker, Tavia Gilbert (Narrator), J.P. Guimont (Narrator)

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The story that Stoker tells, via letters, diary entries, telegrams, and even a few newspaper articles, is about what happens when the undead Count Dracula travels to London and how his activities (mainly bloodsucking and general bad vibes vampire business) interact with the protagonists of the novel. This isn’t my first encounter with the Count; I read a children’s version as a child and then delved into the actual text during high school. Since then, I’ve consumed numerous other adaptations of this tale. My decision […]



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