Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

She who dealt it should admit it…

Super-Serious Mysteries V01: The Untimely Passing of Nicholas Fart by Josh Crute

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CBR15Passport, different format (detective novel, humor and graphic novel form)   As advertised. Farts. Puns. More farts. Along with some crappy tea. And did I mention, there is a funky soup and cake? It is a birthday party after all, but someone (or thing) has raised a stink. Will this group of friends, with one very determined best friend (slash) detective out to find the culprit, find out who dealt it? Or will the party be a pooper? I do not know who Josh Crute […]

Cho Nam-joo (1)

Kim JiYoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo

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“Kim JiYoung is thirty-three years old, or thirty-four in Korean age.” One review for this book says it’s not really a novel, but a documentary of a kind of life in contemporary Korea. It’s not correct because it’s a novel about woman’s life, and just because there’s parallels to be found with lots of other people in similar experiences, well, I am not sure what else you might call it but a novel. Kim JiYoung is born in 1982 and one of the first things […]

Yu Miri (1)

Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri

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” I used to think that life was like a book: you turn to the first page, and then there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one.” The narrator of this short novel was born in 1933, he tells us, the same year as the emperor. Like the emperor he also has a son. Unlike the emperor, born in luxury (even at a trying and turbulent time) our narrator experiences fallout and extreme poverty, in […]

Real life horror, enhanced by spider demons

The Fervor by Alma Katsu

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Katsu is a master of reimagining real-life horror with supernatural elements. Am I allowed to call her a master after reading only two of her novels, the one I’m currently reviewing and The Hunger? I suppose that is what makes reviewing books on the internet so great, there are so few rules to all of this. Anyway, I really loved the atmospheric creepiness of The Hunger, and it’s suggestion, ala The Witch , of something more complex happening than the story we are told about cannibals in Donner Pass […]

You put a spell on me

Back in a Spell by Lana Harper

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I’m officially obsessed with this series. I loved the first book so much; a queer revenge story where contemporary witches plot to get the best of their sketchy ex and overthrow a family with too much power? Yes please. The second book was solid and enjoyable, but not queer, so it didn’t stand out as much in my mind. This book though? Super queer with a main character who isn’t always the most likable, but is trying to be better for the people she loves […]

The Serial Killer Book I’ve Been Waiting For

Notes On An Execution by Danya Kukafka

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I went in to this book so wary! I’m not a huge fan of serial killers or the true crime mania that glorifies men who murder (mostly) women. So even though I’d seen glowing review after breathless recommendation of Notes On an Execution, I doubted I’d get past 20%. I am never so pleased to be wrong than when it comes to loving an unexpected book. The premise of this one is simple, it is the day of Ansel Power’s execution. There are brief chapters […]



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