Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Hold on: If you can

A Radical Shift of Gravity by Nick Tapalansky

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What the flying monkeys did I read? This whacked-out beautiful piece of art is a testament to the fact we can have something for everyone and everyone for something. This graphic novel named A Radical Shift of Gravity boils down to one small but oh so important theme: Humanity’s struggle to survive. It is gorgeously done, and captures the cycle of life, death, and a combination of the two. Everything unfolds on the pages with style. It is organized and chaotic all at once. The […]

Yup, he’s not a vampire. Or is he?

Fake Blood by Whitney Gardner

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There is this book, okay, graphic novel, called Fake Blood. Whitney Gardner is the author and illustrator of this creation. I had seen it over the years on a display here, a list there or on the shelf. But when I was bored one day and was wondering what the library had that I might be interested in, I found it listed (I was perusing their website). I chose five books (with a sixth as a backup in case something was not available) and came […]

I held back my indifference long enough to write the review. So, that’s good.

The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson

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On November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr shot and killed his entire family in their home on Long Island: both parents and his four siblings (ranging in age from 9 to 18). One year later, George and Kathy Lutz bought the house, and, along with their three kids, moved into the house in December 1975. 28 days later, they moved out, leaving all their belongings after claiming to have been victims of a traumatic haunting. Which is utter horseshit. Perhaps that goes without saying – […]

This is not for you.

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

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Maybe you’re right, Johnny. Maybe you’re right. House of Leaves opens with these words, purportedly put there by Johnny Truant, a young sex lunatic who discovers a manuscript, put together by an old man called Zampanò, about a film that may or may not exist, made by a medium-famous middle-aged photographer named Will Navidson, about a house that he lives in that’s bigger on the inside, all annotated by editors who appear unable to make further contact with Johnny. As a journalism student back in […]

the only Scream sequel I need

The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones

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Take the meta-horror-commentary of Scream and dial it up to eleven; there at the top of the stairs, silhouetted in moonlight and brandishing a rusty machete, you will find The Last Final Girl. Stephen Graham Jones is leaning hard into the tropes of teen slasher movies, and if you aren’t in on the joke it will fly over your freshly-severed-by-garage-door-head. The story is presented almost as a film treatment; close ups, pans, POVS, and audience responses are all written in and used with cheeky abandon. […]

If any of my siblings are reading this, I won’t dispose of a body for you

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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Korede is nothing if not efficient. Her sister Ayoola throws problems at her feet, and Korede solves them. Quickly, quietly, smoothly. She loves Ayoola, even though most of the problems she’s been thrown recently have been the bodies of Ayoola’s boyfriends. All killed in self-defense, of course. Ayoola would never do something so awful on purpose. She’s too beautiful, too glamourous, too young to do such a thing. At Korede’s day job as a nurse, she’s just as efficient. She finishes all her work in […]



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