Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


OutFoxing the Paranormal

The Forgotten Dead by Jordan L. Hawk

Rattling Bone by Jordan L. Hawk

Into the Dark by Jordan L. Hawk

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I've been a fan of Jordan L. Hawk since I was introduced to his Whyborne & Griffin series in 2018, and his stories have only improved in that time. OutFoxing the Paranormal is one of his few contemporary series, and it follows a group of ghost hunters who have a YouTube series and a professor at … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:8 · Genres: Audiobooks, Featured, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

Revisiting a queer collection from my ’90s youth

Am I Blue by Marion Dane Bauer

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I picked up Am I Blue?, an anthology of "gay and lesbian" stories for young adults right around when it was published in 1994. I was in middle school, which I had entered with a new haircut that earned me a lot of accusations from more ignorant classmates. But I think this was just a coincidence; I … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:12 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

“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 … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:15 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , ·

And . . . you were brave enough to let me go.

Ship Happens by Mason Deaver

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One of the reasons I love romance novels is that there are infinite ways to tell a story. Ship Happens is a second chance romance, and as such, it looks at whether the initial breakup was a good choice, what has happened to the characters since they broke up, and whether, if they get back together, … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: ·

When Lovecraft… goes Hillsong?

The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross

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Still making my way through the re-read of the Laundry Files novels and I’ve hit on one of my favorites. The Apocalypse Codex is set nearly a year ofter the events of The Fuller Memorandum, and poor Bob is still sort of in recovery. It’s not just the whole business of receiving a bit of a … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

Marjane Satrapi passes at age 56

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I learned today (June 4 2026) that Marjane Satrapi passed away at 56 years old. It sounds as though she died of a broken heart as it was a little more than a year after her husband's death. I cannot say how this saddens me. I really have no words. I mean, I can say how she was an amazing author who … [Read more]

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