Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Journey To Hell

I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

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This is one of those books where the less said, the better. I’d recommend not even reading the premise, not because of spoilers but because it will allow you to make the journey easier. It’s a horror tale but it’s not your typical guts-and-gore horror tale. It’s psychological but in a way you’re probably not expecting. It’s literary, but not too haughty. It’s philosophical, at times pretentiously so but it mostly leans on to the story it’s telling. It’s really important here to pay attention […]

Unfortunately a little underwhelmed by this one.

The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman

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I feel like I might be missing something here. I liked reading this but it wasn’t my favorite of the Sandman comics, and I don’t get the rapturous praise for it. I think some of my reaction may be again that I have read this series so spread out and I’m not making the connections with previous characters like I should. Some of it is also probably that it’s not just vibrating on the right frequency for me. Shrug. This is the climax, the denouement […]

Gloriously Deranged Insanity

Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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Sorry, but it’s nigh on impossible to discuss this book without mentioning the endgame from Gideon The Ninth. You probably shouldn’t be picking up this book anyhow if you haven’t read Gideon. And if you have read Gideon, perhaps give it a bit of a re-read before embarking on Harrow The Ninth. You will thank me later. This book enjoys being tricky Man, this was one of my most anticipated books of the summer. After the wild ride that was Gideon The Ninth, I was […]

“I guess I have been cruising his back roads my whole life. I don’t regret it’*

N0S4A2 by Joe Hill

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Bingo Square: Adaptation As a child Vic McQueen finds a shortcut to lost things through the Shorter Way Bridge. On her bicycle, she can zip through one side to wherever a missing thing is on the other. Her mother’s bracelet. A special toy. One day she meets a girl who mentions a man Vic should avoid at all costs. Charles Manx likes to take children to Christmasland in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith. A place where it is Christmas every day, a playground of everything you […]

When demi-gods have a plan, the world should tremble

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

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Carolyn has a plan to find out who killed Father, the god-like man who adopted her and eleven other children after a traumatic event occurred in their neighborhood. She must rely on her catalogue, languages, of Father’s expanse library and the skills of her siblings and their respective catalogues. She even must involve an American who is not a part of the Library, Father’s name for their home and expansive book-collection. What unravels is a mystery that involves everyone from local neighbors to the president. […]

A Ghost in a Green Gown

The Girl in The Green Silk Gown by Seanan McGuire

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Bingo review 12: Green In some ways, The Girl in the Green Silk Gown was actually my introduction to Seanan McGuire; it was the first book of hers that drew my interest, but it wasn’t the first thing of hers that I read. I’m just only now getting to it. It turns out the titular green dress actually has some meaning in the story, but it’s also a handy reason to use it for this bingo square. This is book two about Rose Marshall, who […]



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