Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Turns out Tropes Can be Saved if Self Aware

Mission Yozakura Family vol. 1 by Hitsuji Gondaira

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So I read a preview chapter of this new mange last year, and later when I wanted some kind of mindless entertainment I went and got the published first volume of Mission: Yozakura Family. The premise is almost as goofy as the story: painfully shy and traumatized Taiyo can hardly function in school … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:3 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: , , , , , ·

Remember the nothing class of Home Ec? Turns out it’s got a past.

The Secret History of Home Economics by Danielle Dreilinger

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What do chemistry, business, politics, and social justice have in common? I’m betting that no one would have automatically though “Home Economics!” but that’s exactly what The Secret History of Home Economics show. It all started with Catharine Beech, Olivia Washington (3rd wife of Booker T.), and … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

Monsters and Men

It's Alive by Julian David Stone

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Fresh of the success of Dracula, Universal's 23-year-old head of production Carl Laemmle, Jr. is looking for another hit to solidify his position at the studio. He believes he's found just the ticket in an adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic horror novel, Frankenstein. Unfortunately for Junior, his … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Not quite what I was looking for

Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman

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Another day, another book I found on NPR's best books list. Funny You Should Ask (2022) by Elissa Sussman is a contemporary romance novel involving a super star stud of an actor and the reporter who interviewed him. Chani Horowitz grew up in Los Angeles and would love to prove herself as a "real" … [Read more]

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

“… the voices to whom the story belongs.”

Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, A Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier by Susan Jonusas

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This is a book about a family of murderers, but also about the entire context of life in the in middle 19th century. Maybe it's because I've got dysfunctional politics on the brain right now (gee, I wonder why?) but a chapter I found most interesting felt very out of context in a book about  a … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: ·

Feminist musketeers

All For One by Lillie Lainoff

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I first saw One For All (2022) by Lillie Lainoff on NPR's Best Books List, I was intrigued, but a little unsure. It looked like a young adult, feminist retelling of the Three Musketeers, but the protagonist was plagued by dizziness. I was curious how she would be able to fight and hopeful that the … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: ·


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