Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Part 9 Only Posting Already Done Review Now Let’s See How Many Are Left Over After That I Will Never Do This To Y’All Again

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Genetic Mystery, a Lethal Cancer, and the Improbable Invention of a Lifesaving Treatment by Jessica Wapner

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami

The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht

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Book 41: Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll Rough Review: 5 stars. This is an interesting book. I’ve tagged it both as True Crime and Historical Fiction. Its relationship to the idea of “based on a true story” is fascinating. I’m not sure I’ve read a book quite like this before, and I think I appreciated it more than I enjoyed it. That’s not a knock against it, the subject matter is quite brutal and the fact that it’s based on a (n infuriating) true […]

Marathon Typo-Riddled Book Review Collection Part 2

Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes by Nathan H. Lents

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell

Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen

Herding Cats by Sarah Andersen

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention – and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

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I see I was in my semicolon era here. Book 6: Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes – A Deeply Informative Tour of Evolution’s Imperfections and Compromises by Nathan H. Lents Rough Review: 3.5 stars because I would have liked a longer, more in-depth look at most of what he talked about , although I understand the aim was to reach a much broader audience than one particular little biology nerd. This book (or perhaps more accurately, the […]

Too many elements at once

Strange Bedfellows by Ariel Slamet Ries

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Strange Bedfellows by Ariel Slamet Ries is in one word, odd. But not in the usual sense of things. The story is straightforward: a person is coming to terms with the changes in their lives, the fact they are not like their siblings as they are the “normal one” (ie: does not have powers) and is trying to deal with headache and heartaches. But there are several places where things fall short of being “smooth” and go into the odd. First, the pages are crowded. […]

Ghostbusting with your dad can get embarrassing

Ghost Roast by Shawneé Gibbs, Shawnelle Gibbs

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Written by Shawneé Gibbs, Shawnelle Gibbs, and illustrated by Emily Cannon, Ghost Roast is a young adult graphic novel about a Black teenager forced to hunt ghosts with her dad. Chelsea has finally made friends with the cool kids at school. But their sneaking out to party ways land her in hot water. Her mom is disappointed, and as punishment to earn back her parents’ trust, she is grounded and forced to work at Ghost Roast, her dad’s ghostbusting business. He is more than a […]

Goth love

Fangs by Sarah Andersen

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Fangs by Sarah Andersen chronicles a supernatural love story between Elsie the vampire and Jimmy the werewolf. The graphic novel is a series of comic vignettes with a loose linear progression of their relationship. They awkwardly meet and discover they both have “fangs” in common. This was both funny and sweet. They may be monsters, but they’re super relatable. Eventually, they move in together and learn each other’s unique quirks. She can’t be in direct sunlight, a natural goth. He turns into a wolf when […]

A mess named Nana meets a less messy mess named Nana

Nana 25th Anniversary Edition vol 1 by Ai Yazawa

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One night, a 20 year old girl named Nana gets on a train to move to Tokyo. She sits next to another 20 year old girl named Nana who is also moving to Tokyo. Despite the coincidences, they’re very different; one is a comphet flake (and I think a satanist) while the other is an ambitious musician who is absolutely going to get big because she’s that good. They talk the entire train ride and get along great and don’t plan on meeting again. But […]



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