Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Hate-Ashbury

The Girls by Emma Cline

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In 1969 California, fourteen-year-old Evie Boyd is drifting aimlessly through her last summer before being shipped off to a boarding school at her newly-divorced mother’s insistence. Her father is shacking up with his secretary in a Palo Alto apartment and Evie’s best friend Connie is starting to get annoyed at Evie’s pathetic crush on her brother. Whether she realizes it or not, she’s in a vulnerable position, which perhaps explains why her chance run-in with Suzanne Parker affects her so deeply. Suzanne is nineteen, a […]

“For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?”

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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The basics: Tolstoy’s War and Peace is the story of a few prominent Russian families around the period of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. Roughly, the first part is fancy dinners and balls as the Russian elite try to make sense of Alexander’s liberal policies and the role of Napoleon in Europe. The second part is about Napoleon’s military exploits in 1812-1813. The last part (roughly 20%) is the aftermath. Even though my version is 884 pages of small print, ultimately I found it fresh and […]

A game of reality

Lo and Behold by Wendy Mass

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CBR16SweetChallenge #Cozy (has a feeling of cozy, and deals with themes in a less intense manner) The graphic novel Lo and Behold by Wendy Mass and illustrated by Gabi Mendez is a sweet story about Addy, a young girl who must learn to have empathy, sympathy and forgiveness for her father, mother, and most importantly, herself. There is a lot about VR technology and its real world applications. Adults can enjoy it as well as kids (strong 8/9 to 12-13). There is a little about […]

Slewfoot: the devil is in the details

Slewfoot by Brom

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mood music: me and the devil – Soap&Skin I had never heard of Brom and I was unfamiliar with his work before picking up this book. I found out about this book through TikTok and was intrigued by the premise, even if it was something that was outside of my usual reading genres. Slewfoot is set in colonial New England, a few years after the Salem Witch Trials. The protagonist, Abitha, is a young woman who is a fairly recent arrival to the colonies as […]

Not where I saw that going at all

Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke

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Butts isn’t what I expected, but (pun unintended) I don’t know what I expected, to be quite honest. I remember wondering how anybody could sustain talk about butts for the length of a full book, which is why I had avoided buying/reading this one, in spite of the hype. When it came time for my birthday, though, and I had the opportunity to do the book store challenge, where you get a set amount of time to run rampant in a book store and the other person […]

Faith blankets you

Blankets  by Craig Thompson

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CBR16SweetChallenge #Exciting Craig Thompson is a new author for me and one that I will check out again as Blankets was a powerful and interesting read. I was going to put this as a New category because of that, but Exciting came after finishing. I was intrigued by the cover, the concept, and all of the blue that was on that cover and inside. I was hoping to find a copy from my library, and eventually did find a mid-2000s published edition. After finishing, I want to find the […]



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