Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


He loved art, but not puzzles

The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin

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I had not realized how recently published The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin was. I figured this was a 1990s books or even earlier due the 1980s style of cover. But then again, since the author was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s it is probably appropriate to have that feeling to the cover. We learn about the author/illustrator in a way only they can tell us. The troubles, the love, the misunderstandings, the political and […]

Sequels get the job done

Clash (Click, #4) by Kayla Miller

Gina: The Girl Who Broke the World (Hilo #7) by Judd Winick

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Sequels are interesting parts of an author’s catalog. Sometimes you like them, and sometimes not. Sometimes they are too much like the others and therefore, you fall out with them as they have nothing new to say. And sometimes they are what keeps us reading. And two series that have been all that for me, are below. Clash (Click, #4) by Kayla Miller is more of the same goodness we love about these characters in the Click series.  Only this time, we are dealing with […]

The author might be hiding away in Donegal, but these books are not!

The Deepest Breath by Meg Grehan

The Space Between by Meg Grehan

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Meg Grehan came on my radar recently with Baby Teeth. I was intrigued for many reasons; I had read another book titled Baby Teeth and wondering how it compared. I was interested as the cover was romantic, old fashioned, but screamed modern. The colors were both perfect and overly done at first glance. And finally, it was a novel in verse, and I am always curious to see if they read as poetry or flow as a novel. And while it was not my OMG […]

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 […]

Blood is a powerful thing, then again, so is friendship

Talli, Daughter of the Moon Volume One by Sourya Sihachakr

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Manga meets Medieval in this first volume of a princess and a pauper tale. We have one spoiled girl, with extreme magical powers she cannot control, a noble knight (who is way dramatic), a sleepy-swordsman and his with-a-past-grandfather take on a journey of discovery, treasure, and magic in Talli, Daughter of the Moon Volume One. Sourya Sihachakr (a French-Laotian cartoonist) mixed a bit of classical European flair, Asian looks, manga imagery and a bit of what I call “old school 1970’s” feel. And Francois Vigneault […]

You REALLY don’t want to know what is in the beer

Open Bar (Edicao Definitiva) by Eduardo Medeiros

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WHAT THE SAM HOUSTON DID I JUST READ? This is one messed up story about two best friend who are two sides of the same coin, making it so they are the perfect collection together. Toss in a really wild (and I wonder how legal) beer, an ex-girlfriend and some crazy accidents and situations and you have an experience story about two losers who just do their damnedest to get by, live, laugh, love, cry and who knows, maybe save the world (or at least […]



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