Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Let me tell you about your case, little girl

Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance by Cindy Cohn

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I got an alert that Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance by Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation was ready for me to pick up from the library. I didn’t remember putting it on hold and I could not fathom why I would want to read a memoir with such a seemingly bombastic title. The title is a lot, but it’s accurate. Cindy Cohn has been defending privacy for 30 years. She’s especially been at the front of defending digital […]

Locker Room Talk

The Game by Ken Dryden

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    Hockey occupies a precarious position in the hierarchy of my sports fandom. I watch a fair amount of my local team’s games (Go Devils!) but I don’t really know anything about the sport itself, outside a few big names from its history and a general comprehension of the rules. (I know what icing is, but I doubt I could explain it effectively, for instance.) I have recently been getting more into soccer, and a big part of that has been reading some really […]

“Luck is an undependable commodity.”

Over the Edge: Death in the Grand Canyon by Michael P. Ghiglieri, Thomas Myers

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Two veteran adventurers and employees who worked in the Grand Canyon compile the stories of all the many people who have died in the canyon and the diverse fates which have befallen them. I visited the Grand Canyon about a decade ago, and I remember being struck by the sheer immensity of the landscape, as well as how colorful it was. My family and I just biked along the rim for a few hours, but always took plenty of care to keep away from the […]

I should save this for a bingo or something like this, but I gotta tell you about the book that made me cry

We Are Pan by Andre R. Frattino and Yasmín Flores Montañez

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A little over a year ago I read Tokyo Rose – Zero Hour by Andre R. Frattino and illustrator Kate Kasenow. I gave it a rating of four. When I was looking for my review from 2025, I found another review that was from 2023 (if you haven’t guessed, I came late to the party) on here that was also a four. I mention this other book because not only is it a great book and should be promoted when it can, Frattino is the […]

“Feral, for all the wildness it implies, just means that an animal was abandoned by the system that created it.”

Poets Square: a Memoir in Thirty Cats by Courtney Gustafson

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I am very far behind my book goal for the year so far, so I did some TBR triage by moving shorter books up to the front of the request queue with my library. Poets Square is one of the first of that reshuffle to make its way to me and was a welcome bit of solace this past weekend. Poets Square is Courtney Gustafson’s story of how she accidentally inherited a feral colony of 30 cats which in turn led her to work in […]

Mountains! Around the world!

Mountainous by Julia Kuo

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Looking at the cover of Mountainous by Julia Kuo made me think that the book was going to be a book that “feels good” and has a mindfulness quality to it. And it does, but it is not just that. This unique work features a clever, sweet, and interesting story that blends meditation, self-esteem, and imagery to create a truly special experience. It shows (from the publisher’s description) that When the world moves so fast, mountains seem to stand still. But mountains move and change […]



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