Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Hopefully it’s just series sophmore slump

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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Potentially unpopular opinion ahead: I did not especially like Harrow the Ninth. I loved Gideon the Ninth, but I don’t think all the narrative experimenting and the pacing worked out well here. After Harrow becomes a Lyctor and Gideon is gone, about 85 percent of the Harrow the Ninth is confusion. … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:82 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

Hair Power

Witchy by Ariel Slamet Ries

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Witchy fells kind of familiar; there’s the adolescent with a secret who doesn’t quite fit into their magical world (Nyneve), the kind friend, the former antagonist turned maybe ally (or not) Prill, the seemingly grandfatherly leader of the magical world, the spooky granny figure who provides … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:81 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , , ·

The GBBO judges are the losers here

The Great British Baking Show Favorite Flavors by Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith, 2022 bakers

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So the Great British Bake Off aka Great British Baking Show books have been kind of hit or miss; more miss lately, but thankfully, in spite of some unfortunate decisions during the actual series, the book is back to what it should be: cool bakes that are actually achievable and useful to an average … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:80 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ·

I Mean … Yikes

The World Record Book of Racist Stories by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar

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Best for: Everyone, but I mean, white folks do really need to give it a read. In a nutshell: This is a follow-up to Ruffin and Lamar’s previous book, You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey. Worth quoting: “That’s why a lot of white people act the way they do: they have a five year … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:51 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir · Tags: , ·

The scorn is as high as an elephant’s eye…

1922 by Stephen King

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1922 is a novella by Stephen King. It centers around a small family trying to run a farm in Nebraska: Wilf, Arlette, and their child Henry (who prefers to go by Hank, pleaseandthankyou). The story is written through the eyes of Wilf, who is making an end-of-life confession about the events of the … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Short Stories, Suspense · Tags: ·

Everything I know about being an a-hole

Everything I know about love by Dolly Alderton

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I am a big fan of Alderton's podcast, 'Sentimental in the City', which she cohosts with Caroline O'Donoghue. I also recently watched the series based on this book and found it a welcome trip down nostalgia lane. The girls living in a sharehouse, the interloping boyfriends, the crummy jobs, the loose … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir · Tags: ·


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