Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Putin Hates It

Pioneer Summer by Elena Malisova, Katerina Silvanova, and Anne O. Fisher

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DNF I was very excited to read this book after spotting it on the NEW table in a local bookstore. With the tagline, “Putin hates it,” how could I not be interested? Released as fan fiction and then formally published in Russia in 2021, this book became a sensation on Tiktok and gained widespread popularity with Russian-speaking readers. The Russian government took notice and, along with other popular books and content about LGBTQ characters and themes, banned it. The government claimed that it violated a […]

Groan

The Firm by John Grisham

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It was the eyes, the cold black eyes with layers of black wrinkles around them. Great eyes. Unforgettable eyes. His hair was white and thin on top with thickets around the ears, and the whiteness contrasted sharply with the rest of his face. When he spoke, the eyes narrowed and the black pupils glowed fiercely. Sinister eyes. Knowing eyes. ― John Grisham, The Firm You have only two choices, Mitch. Join us, or die. ― John Grisham, The Firm CBR17 Bingo: Borrow (Bingo from Arts to […]

I give up

Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts

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I think La Nora’s next book should be about serial killers who flip houses and not the cops who catch them. There were two places in Hidden Nature where it felt like Nora Roberts was interested in what she was writing – the home renovation and the icky serial killers. Ok, there was a third area where she perked up – when she was writing about dogs. But, I think we all agree that the dogs and the serial killers should be kept separate. Her […]

To DNF or not DFN

The Antique Hunter's Death on the Red Sea by C. L. Miller

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Scenario: You start reading a book, and then get a reminder that it’s due back to the library soon. Assuming no renewals, do you 1) speed through the rest, or 2) give up. The Antique Hunter’s Death on the Red Sea is going to be a ‘give it back not completely read’ for me. There’s nothing wrong with it as far as I’ve gotten, but it’s not quite what I want right now. I kind of wonder if I’d read the first in the series […]

I am exhausted.

Bunny by Mona Awad

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I watch them tug at him with a fury that no doubt they put into their graduate school applications. An endlessly entitled fury that will drive them toward the shiny pretty things of this world and not stop until they have claimed them. ― Mona Awad, Bunny CBR16 Bingo: Rage I did not finish this book. I enjoy complicated, messy, unlikeable characters. But the only person I could stand was the poet whom everyone ostracized. Maybe that was the point all along. Samantha Mackey (Smackie) […]

“A society that does not respect women’s anger is one that does not respect women”

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly

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This is a DNF book for me, and you should know that going into the review. I did not DNF because the writing was poor, it was in fact very good. I did not DNF because the information was not well-sourced or in some other way in deficit – everything laid out was well placed and well investigated. The book describes the ubiquitous experience that women have with being taught to tamp down their anger and presents the research on the racial and cultural differences […]



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