Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Rethinking Assumptions About Adoption

The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption by Kathryn Joyce

Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson

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I grew up in a small town in the Midwest. It's in a very religious area (the nearby city is literally nicknamed "City of Churches"), and one thing I noticed after I left was how many of my former classmates, after marrying and settling down, had adopted children from other countries. Offhand, I can … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:10 · Genres: Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

Fooled me twice, shame on me

The Shippers by Katherine Center

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2.5 stars Thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book will be out on May 19th. Josephine "JoJo" Burton runs away from her own wedding, after her childhood best friend, Cooper Watts, shows up unexpectedly from London just as she's about to walk … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

Oh God, I’m Discoursing (Mac Barnett’s MAKE BELIEVE)

Make Believe by Mac Barnett

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Mac Barnett is one of my favorite picture book authors. My favorite book of his, The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown, is one of my favorite picture books period. I reviewed it here for this very reading challenge! So I eagerly preordered my copy of Make Believe, his first book for … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:11 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: ·

Tl:dr – Cannabis turns anxious, uptight ER doc into anxious hoochie daddy who listens to his patients.

Pot Shot by Laura Piper Lee

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For a book I ended up loving, I struggled at a couple of points early in the book. First of all, there is a medical emergency in the first chapter that brings Nomi and Julian back together. That had me putting the book down for a week. The other challenge I had was Julian for the first quarter or so … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:32 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: , ·

Funny, Quirky, and Heartfelt

Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly

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What an underhyped gem this is. It's funny, with quirky characters and an emotional core. Set in New Zealand, the book alternates the POVs of the titular siblings, who are biracial, gay, and living together as roommates. It's a slice of life novel with a large focus on the main characters' romantic … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , ·

a novella I wish were a novel, but then again when don’t I

The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

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This is quite a short novella and therefore there's quite a bit of rushing to get to the plot that there is. But if the worst that I have to complain about is some deus ex machina nuns, I think we're overall pretty fine. Did not realize that there was more fiction in this vein by Clark, I've read … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: ·


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