Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Eleanor Catton (1)

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

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“The Korowai Pass had been closed since the end of the summer, when a spate of shallow earthquakes triggered a landslide that buried a stretch of the highway in rubble, killing five, and sending a long-haul truck over a precipice where it skimmed a power line, ploughed a channel down the mountainside, and then exploded on a viaduct below.” I think if I read and reread this book more than once or twice it would grow in my estimation. I really enjoyed it, and there’s […]

The madness of Florida and TFG and snakes

Squeeze Me by Carl Hiassen

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I don’t know how to describe how much I enjoyed this book. I listened to it as a book on tape for a long drive between the mountains and it hit the spot in a way I didn’t know I needed. It is a very long book that probably could have been smaller, but the author had a story to tell that encompassed the last year and bit of TFG’s reign of horror and after he lost. There were many times in the book when […]

I’m dying. I’m dead. Murdered by the puppy cannon!

The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan

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CBR15passport recommended ‘You can address me by my preferred title: you idiot.’ I’ve seen references to “the puppy cannon” amongst romance novel fans here on CBR over the years. I never really investigated what it meant and in my head, for some reason, it was “the puppy canon,” like some kind of reference to a specific sub-genre of romance novel. It is not. It is truly the puppy cannon, and if there were to be some kind of puppy cannon canon, I would be all […]

There he was, minding his own business, thinking he was as good as everyone else, never realizing he was committing the crime of being Fat.

A Work in Progress. by Jarrett Lerner

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WOW. WOW. WOW. (Did I say WOW?)  The one thing you need to know about this book is Wow. The rest is gravy. Which is, this is a story about body image and is told in a familiar manner. But this time it is told from the point of view of a boy instead of a girl like we are used to. I have had Jarrett Lerner books ruined for me because of A Work in Progress. I will never be able to read them […]

Dario Fo (2)

Can't Pay? Won't Pay! by Dario Fo

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“Blimey, home at last. My feet are killing me.” Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! Like a lot of good satire, not only is the target of the satire savaged in this play, so too, are the ones whose opinions most closely align. When I think about say Nineteen Eighty Four, in the way that all dystopia is a kind of parody, I think about while there is a direct critique going on in the novel, what is most effective about it is that it’s also a […]

Derek Laufman has a new fan

The Witch of Wickerson by Derek Laufman

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   CBR15Passport, New Author  The Witch of Wickerson by Derek Laufman is a fantastic book with amazing illustrations and a clever story. I could see a series and/or a movie or animated series adapted from it. While it has twists and turns, and can be dark, it is a slightly easier and less intense than Redwall. The adventures are based in fantasy elements (a mouse wearing clothes, talking animals, a witch) can be intense for young or sensitive readers. And there is the kidnapping of the […]



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