Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“When creative people do their best work, they’re hardly ever in charge, they’re just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.”

Everything's Eventual by Stephen King

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I have had this beaten-up paperback copy of Everything’s Eventual in my backpack for at least a year, reading a few pages here, a short story there. I was enjoying it, but kept forgetting it was there, usually opting to listen to Audible or read on my kindle when I had some free time. And finally, I went for a walk at lunch today, found a cute table outside a sandwich shop, and sat down to finish it. I’m pretty sure that this was only […]

Almost as if part of him enjoyed telling her this.

The Good House by Tananarive Due

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Aside from classic books like Dracula, Frankenstein, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, I have not read a lot of horror books not written by Stephen King. I’ve read almost every thing that he has written without fail. I think I am about 5 shy of completion. I also have read a half dozen Anne Rice books. And I think it stops there. So this book is a departure. I’ve been interested in Tananarive Due novels for a while, but I haven’t had access to […]

Apologies to whoever sat next to me while I read this

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

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The Library at Mount Char is a strange book. Sometimes it’s really interesting and suspenseful; other times, it’s horrific (as in horror literature, not general quality). The thing is, at least for me, is that the two don’t quite mesh together. The general story follows Caroline and Steve, who apparently has some kind of criminal past but now lives a quiet life as a plumber. He meets Caroline who seems a little off but who offers him an unusual amount of money to help her […]

Come Along and Walk With Me

Mystery Walk by Robert B. McCammon

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Well this was really good! I was pleasantly surprised since I have only really loved one of McCammon’s books, “Boy’s LIfe.” “Mystery Walk” brought back some of that feeling of magical realism along with horror that I liked in the previous book. We also get introduced to some pretty epic characters (Billy Creekmore and his mother) and I ended up wanting to read more about Billy after the conclusion of the book. “Mystery Walk” begins with a pregnant Ramona Creekmore who has a gift. She […]

Scary Cat

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

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I’ve been working my way through Stephen King’s bibliography lately and the release of a new film adaptation made Pet Sematary a natural enough choice for my latest foray. Louis Creed is a doctor who moves his family from Chicago to Maine in order to take a job at a university hospital. He becomes fast friends with his 83-year-old neighbor, Jud, who shows the Creed family the unusual feature of their property. The children of the town have a tradition of burying their dead pets […]

Lovecraft, Racism and Disaapointment

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

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I went into this book thinking I would love it. Hoping I would love it. After all, I am a huge Lovecraft fan, in spite of all of the underlying concerns with his tales (for all of his racist and anti-Semitic tropes, as well as a prose so purple it could be smoke on the water, he does present some incredible ideas in his stories). The thought of taking a Lovecraftian universe and exploring it through the eyes of people of color in the 1950s […]



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