Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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I unexpectedly fell in love with this one day.

Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson

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Thanks to NetGalley and Recorded Books for the audio ARC. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. Firstly, I’m going to apologize in advance because this review might end up being the equivalent of one of those annoying YouTube comments where some genius pops in to be like “FIRST!” and sometimes they’re not even first but they’re so proud of themselves anyway. I hope I don’t descend to that level but I can’t promise anything because I had such a good time with this […]

Outerspace, aliens and a couple of dudettes

Trapped on Zarkass by Yan

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I am giving this book a three just because I can, and the fact that I think I might have missed something very important, so it is for the potential of the things. Then again, Trapped on Zarkass could just be a big pile of alien poop and there is not anything deeper than just plain old entertainment. However, Yan’s adaptation of Stefan Wul’s novel (I believe I have the order correct on that) is not going to be entertaining for everyone. It is not […]

The 200 pages left to read I’m guessing is more of the warped sameness

Human Remains: The Complete Series by Peter Milligan

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EDIT: I wrote the below yesterday, since then I started Chapter Two and I think I am now hooked. I’ve gotten to the point where I can include there are several trigger warnings including, but not limited to: Pandemic like situations, violence, sexual assault, sexuality, extreme blood/violence, religious content.  And a three for potential and how much I like/dislike the first chapter and half.   There is something perversely beautiful about the first chapter of Human Remains: The Complete Series. Especially towards the end when […]

Your next travel destination

Area 510 by Lee Loughridge

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I am assuming that Area 510 is book one in an “unknown amount” of a series by Lee Loughridge, Jay Faerber, Justin Greenwood, and Thomas Mauer (I am assuming Greenwood has illustrated this graphic novel, and Mauer is a big name in the community that I am unfortunately unfamiliar with). But despite any short comings I might have when it comes to knowing the people who created Area 510 (the zip code of the area the story takes place) this is a great start to […]

Hijinks and Goop people

Weird Kid by Greg Van Eekhout

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The main character in Weird Kid is an alien, therefore expect a comedy of errors to happen. There is an interesting story arch that shows that that things are a not to subtle representation of puberty and the changing we go through in middle school. It is very unbelievable (though there are two interesting pieces of realism that was surprising). It is also funny. An adult can forgive the bumps that occur as kids 10 and up will get a kick out of everything happening. […]

“Now everyone will think she can’t cope with the demands of her job, just because she fell off a balcony.”

Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson

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For whatever reason, I love books about alien linguistics. Not necessarily first contact, but more in terms of the pitfalls and cultural quirks of learning an alien language and then interacting with those aliens, so when I saw that this book featured a linguist I jumped on it. The quote on the book calls it “weird” and well, yes, this is definitely a quirky mix of science fiction wrapped up in a murder mystery. “Now everyone will think she can’t cope with the demands of […]



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