Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


As your best friend and life support system, I require you to be less stupid.

Moss’d in Space by Rebecca Thorne

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Well this was delightful! I knew that I would enjoy Rebecca Thorne’s Moss’d in Space, narrated by Natalie Naudus and Dylan Reilly Fitzpatrick, but I was still surprised by how much. I liked Thorne’s Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea, though I thought it rambled a bit. Moss’d has the growing found … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:39 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: , , ·

It’s all fun and games until the gods show up

All Hail Chaos: Time of Iron Book 2 by Sarah Rees Brennan

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All Hail Chaos is the sequel to Long Live Evil, which I reviewed favorably last year. At the time, I thought this sequel would end the story, but it looks like we are in for a Time of Iron Book 3, and there is a doozy of a cliffhanger at the end of book 2. My overall impression of All Hail Chaos is … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:26 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

The Father Who Stepped Up, Then Stepped Aside

Whistler by Ann Patchett

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Daphne Fuller, the protagonist of Ann Patchett's newest novel is a fifty-three old English teacher at an all-girls private school. On a day trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with her older, retired husband, she runs into someone she hasn't seen in over forty years: her former stepfather Eddie … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:38 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

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: , ·


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