Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Do you know the Muffin Man? Well it won’t matter after Godzilla gets done with the fairy tale village!

Godzilla Stomp! by Katherine Locke and Nikolas Ilic

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Now, I’m that person that roots for the bull instead of the cowboy in bull riding. I love watching the golf ball spin aaaroooound the hole and not go in. I will cheer for the curling kettle to “go go go! Aaaand out of bounds!”  So it should come as no surprise that I will have a hearty hurrah when … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:164 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

When Lovecraft Wears an Investment Banker’s Face

The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross

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“Don't be silly, Bob, said Mo, everyone knows vampires don't exist!" This is the one with vampires in it. And investment bankers. Who are the greater bloodsuckers, you might ask? Trick question, they are one and the same.  Up until this point, a lot of the workplace drama side of The Laundry … [Read more]

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

Let me tell you about your case, little girl

Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance by Cindy Cohn

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I got an alert that Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance by Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation was ready for me to pick up from the library. I didn't remember putting it on hold and I could not fathom why I would want to read a … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:21 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: , ·

Graphic Novel adaption of a favorite children’s classic

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If you haven't read Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt - go do it! It's a classic of children's literature, and one of those elevated children's texts that reads well as an adult - but also it's short and sweet, which busy adults can appreciate. Not to mention the story is about life and death, and … [Read more]

Genres: Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: , , , , , , ·

The Stepford Pioneer

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

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Yesteryear is the debut novel of Caro Claire Burke, and is centred on a delightfully fiendish "what if". What if a popular American tradwife influencer one day found herself living in actual pioneer times? Such a simple conceit, and yet so thoroughly engaging. So it pains me to say: this book … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Class and Murder in England

The Good Liar by Denise Mina

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I'm not sure how I first heard of The Good Liar (2025) by Denise Mina, but I probably saw it on some end-of-the-year-best-novels list. Mina seems to be a pretty prolific writer, but she was new to me. The Good Liar is a thriller/murder mystery that takes place in London. On the whole, I found this … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: ·


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