Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Let’s start this year with a green light!

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

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I’m not a memoir reader. But this was gifted to me during a happy hour, when my defenses were down and I was probably more excited than normal to receive a gift. All jokes aside, I will admit that one of my favorite books, The Glass Castle, is a memoir, so when Greenlights arrived in my audible account, I decided to waive judgment. But I felt like, of all the memoirs out there, is McConaughey’s really going to be the one to change my life (as […]

Quick Questions with genericwhitegirl

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Hi, genericwhitegirl! Thank you for agreeing to participate in the Cannonball Read getting-to-know-ya. (And for providing such great responses to the pre-interview questionnaire.)   Since this is a community of people reading and reviewing books to help kick cancer’s ass, it seems only right that we start with your favorite book or books. You mentioned that while you’ve really enjoyed the Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde, and Ella Minnow Pea by […]

Ridiculous, as expected

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

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Grady Hendrix and I have an on-again off-again relationship. I didn’t like Horrorstor, but I appreciated the premise and the book itself in terms of the illustrations included. I enjoyed How to Sell a Haunted House enough that I decided to try The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires and give him another chance. I will give him credit for being an author that I picked a random book from because of name recognition. So there’s that working in his favor. But we are […]

Together we can be worth more than the sum of our parts

Grown Women by Sarai Johnson

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Sarai Johnson teaches writing and literature courses at Howard and American Universities in the DC Area, and apparently wrote Grown Women, her first novel, in her free time. In my free time I do things like sleep, or sit around and do nothing, or make lists of things I should be doing. Okay okay, I also read the product of other people’s free time. Which bring us full circle to Grown Women, a novel about four generations of women, with the story beginning in 1974 […]

Like Lord of the Flies at Disneyland

FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven

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If you strand a bunch of (mostly) 20 something year old adults who work in a theme park for 35 days during a natural disaster, what do you think would happen? If you’re hoping for Temptation Island level hijinks, you’ll be sorely disappointed. But if you’re leaning toward murder and heads on a stick level violence, then this is the book for you! Think Lord of the Flies, but with adults and multiple tribes. This book works for a lot of reasons. First, you have […]

One of My Year’s Best

Circe by Madeline Miller

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Whether or not you know anything about Greek Mythology is irrelevant when it comes to reading Circe. You could go in cold, like I did, or with a vast knowledge of the myths. If, like me, you thought of Greek myths as being about otherwordly beings who have little in common with mortals, you may be pleasantly surprised by this book. Miller makes the gods human, accessible, fallible, and vulnerable. And I guess anyone who knows anything about these stories might already know that, but […]



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