Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“In any event,” Percy went on, “what I had thought were principles were merely manners, and they’re utterly insufficient for my present circumstances.”

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian

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The Queer Principles of Kit Webb is a book unabashedly about the heart. There are so many famous quotes about the heart that remind me forcefully of this book. Perhaps the easiest is the heart wants what it wants. So much of the plot of The Queer Principles of Kit Webb is caught up in its leads … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:44 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , , , , , , ·

Take control of a mythic ghost ship or your sister dies isn’t much of a choice – CBR 14 Bingo: Star

Ship of Smoke and Steel: The Wells of Sorcery, Book One by Django Wexler

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CBR14 Bingo: "Star" - Astronomy used to calculate where a ship on the ocean is located and where it's sailing to is an important driver of the story. I've grown to quite like author Django Wexler's work.  But somehow I missed that he released an entire YA trilogy between two adult series.  Book … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , , ·

We Only Get This One Body

Fat, Crazy, and Tired: Tales from the Trenches of Transformation by Van Lathan, Jr.

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I know Van Lathan from his Ringer podcasts, Higher Learning and Ringer-Verse. When I saw that he published a book earlier this year about his relationship with his body I thought, yes – let’s read that. What I got was a cultural critique of the unspoken things that keep us from maintaining good … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:43 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , ·

“These fragments I have shored against my ruins”

The Wasteland, Prufrock, and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot

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I had an idea: I want to start reading at least one book each year published a hundred years ago. For the next several years it will be a time period that I study for work, but it was more than something I felt compelled to do for work. For as often as works are written for and of their time, there … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:42 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: , , , , , ·

a sweet little sapphic romance

Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

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CBR Bingo: Heart ('cause, romance, obvs) I added this to my library holds list because I kept seeing it recommended seemingly everywhere I turned, so okay! fine! also because with all the serious reading I've been doing, I do need some books that lighten up the mood a bit. (Also, this came in … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Audiobooks, Romance · Tags: , , ·

Daughter of the Texas Sun

Pay Dirt Road by Samantha Jayne Allen

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This is getting the thinnest of four-star ratings. I'm giving it all the first-time author grace I can. I loved Samantha Jayne Allen's sense of place. Her Texas is a real one that feels lived in. She's very good at talking about the struggles of the locals without pandering (unlike, say, Stephen … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:121 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: , , , , ·


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