Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

When you fight evil instead of slumber at your slumber party

Unocorn Boy V02 Unicorn Boy and the Slumber Party of Doom! by Dave Roman

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I really liked the first Unicorn Boy by Dave Roman. It was both new and fresh, plus also familiar. I liked that combination. The fantasy elements are fun, the LGBTQ elements on point, I thought the humor was mostly laughing out loud. Sure, some were a bit “kid centered” but that doesn’t mean an adult could like it. Then I read via an online reader Unicorn Boy and the Slumber Party of Doom! (Unicorn Boy #2) by Dave Roman. It is due in early May […]

This read is younger than his others (or I’m assuming as I haven’t read them) but still not for really really young

Leo da Vinci: Renaissance Kid by Richard Ashley Hamilton

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If you like stories about, or at least a modernization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s story, you just might like Leo da Vinci: Renaissance Kid by Richard Ashley Hamilton. Of course, things are totally fictionalized (or so one would assume, but perhaps it is set in an alternative reality?). The language is completely of today with actions to match (fist bumps, calling stepfather Tony).  Now, maybe it is not the best book, but for certain it is a fun one that I will try to find […]

“It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.”

Shift (Silo #2) by Hugh Howey

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It has been a few years since I read the first book of this series, Wool, but I was very excited to return to Howey’s dystopian world, of people living in a silo, with many unanswered quesitons about how humanity got to this point, and what exactly is wrong with the world outside. I was ready to pick back up where book one ended, but was in for a bit of a surprise. In fact, I was quite disappointed, because I DESPERATELY wanted to see […]

You can’t break the ties that bind

A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James

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This is the most I have enjoyed a Simone St. James novel in a while. She is always a dependable author and storyteller but some of her novels go beyond that. For me those have been The Broken Girls and The Sun Down Motel. We can now add this one to the list for me. It’s also dedicated to Stephen King, and it feels especially fitting for this novel to be the ones dedicated to King. Not only does she return to the setting of […]

Dear Debbie- the potato chips of books

Dear Debbie by Frieda McFadden

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Sometimes, enough is enough… Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, where the wives of New England come for sympathy and neighborly advice. Through her work, Debbie has heard from countless women who are ignored, belittled, or even abused by their husbands. And Debbie does her best to guide them in the right direction. Or at least, she did. These days, Debbie’s life seems to be spiraling out of control. She just lost […]

The Tradwife’s Secret- new fave subgenre?

The Tradwife's Secret by Liane Child

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A marriage is between two people. And their millions of followers. Madison March’s life is perfect. And she’ll do anything to keep it that way. Madison March is the perfect wife, with the perfect family and the perfect life. She spends her days baking sourdough and picking vegetables from the garden while watching her children play in the fields surrounding her Montana homestead. Dinner is always on the table for her husband and they end their days sitting on the porch, watching the sun go […]



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