Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“…with understanding, all things were possible.”

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

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Riddle me this: what do you create when you combine a violin prodigy, "the Queen of Hell", and an alien doughnut maker? If you are Ryka Aoki, you create a wild, delicious, devastating, hilarious brew. Does it hold together in a tight narrative? Light from Uncommon Stars does not. Does it thrill your … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

April 2023 Leftovers

Lady Boss by Jackie Collins

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

Flux by Jinwoo Choo

The Cutie by Donald Westlake

The Boy with the Faster Brain by Peter Shankman

The Widening Gyre by Robert B. Parker

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Happy spring! Lady Boss** So after two books and almost 2k pages of enough internalized misogyny to make Phyllis Schlafly blush, with stories chock full of men and women who will literally hump anyone and anything, Jackie Collins suddenly decides to make Lucky purchase a movie studio...in order … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:57 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

If you’re stabby and you know it, stab someone

If UR Stabby by Kaz Windness

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My rating of three is a guessed at average of all my likes and dislikes about the book, If UR Stabby. Kaz Windness created a concept of a depressed unicorn that is mostly amusing. Stabby is the opposite of other unicorns with their jellybeans and kittens and rainbows and six-packs. Stabby is anxiety … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:281 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Horror, Poetry · Tags: , , , , ·

Sure, I’ll Be Your Ghost

Be My Ghost by Carol J Perry

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Maureen Doherty isn't having the best time as the store that she's worked as a buyer for (and a decorator of?) goes out of business. She's smart, savvy, and has an awesome dog so things aren't too terrible for her though for very long, because as soon as she gets home she learns that she has … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

George Orwell

Burmese Days by George Orwell

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"U Po Kyin, Subdivisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, in Upper Burma, was sitting in his veranda." George Orwell like Aldous Huxley is a victim of his own success. He's most widely known for his novels 1984 and Animal Farm, but like Huxley he also wrote several other novels and a lot of nonfiction. … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:277 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

A True Crime Memoir

The Babysitter by Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan

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Decided to start 2023 off with a bang after listening to an interview of the co-authors on the podcast Tenfold More Wicked. As Liza recounted her childhood story to host Kate Winkler Dawson, my interest was immediately piqued and I borrowed the e-book from the library. Needless to say I burned … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Featured · Tags: , , ·


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