Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Tennal the Chaos needs more Motivation

Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell

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I really liked Everina Maxwell’s debut Winter’s Orbit, so I made sure to get Ocean’s Echo as soon as it came out. I saved it for June as school is out and also Pride month. Ocean’s Echo is not a direct sequel which is sort of too bad but fine since I already knew that, but it’s definitely got some parallels. Basically an order vs chaos pair are forced together and must work through their personal and public problems; this worked out quite well the […]

What’s in the trunk Adelaide?

Lone Women by Victor LaValle

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Adelaide Henry is a woman on the run. She is traveling to Montana to take advantage of the offer of free land to homesteaders regardless of gender, dragging only an enormous steamer trunk behind her. Adelaide isn’t the only lone woman in Montana with secrets. Can she escape her past? What happens if she stops trying? Little House on the Prairie this is not. I picked this book up on the strength of past works by this author that I’ve enjoyed and was not disappointed. […]

The Inventor of Leggings? I believe it!

Pat in the City by Patricia Field

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Currently Patricia Field is known as the costuming consultant for the Netflix show Emily in Paris, Emily might be ridiculous but her clothes are divine. Her name may also be familiar from her work on The Devil Wears Prada, Younger, and Ugly Betty. She was the one who put Carrie Bradshaw in a tutu for Sex and the City. But for this little teen girl from the suburbs in the 90s Patricia Field was the name emblazoned across one of the coolest shops in the […]

Hex the Patriarchy

VenCo: A Novel by By Cherie Dimaline

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I will automatically read any books about witches or libraries, my two weaknesses. If I ever found a book about a witch library I would probably explode. VenCo fortunately is not that book. Within the first few pages we are greeted by the leaders of the North American covens (CoVen=VenCo). A tattooed Maiden, a Mother with her pit bull, and a Crone dressed in Chanel walk into a meeting hoping to change the world. From here I was hooked and I hadn’t even met the […]

Coffee makes everything better.

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

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Viv is an Orc who has splattered one skull too many. She abandons her life as the muscle of an adventuring party and opens a coffee shop in a small town. The only problem is that nobody has ever heard of coffee. Luckily the concept catches on quickly, and after hiring some help, and attracting some regular customers, her new shop, Legends and Lattes is a success. Viv is a great character. Who can’t identify with wanting to change their life plan, put down roots, […]

Respect the Animal, Dammit.

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

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Bingo square, Fauna I spent a week in Central Florida (pre-Disney era) one summer, many decades back, when I was 9 years old.  It was memorable.  From the gators roaming the backyards in the evening, to the constant state of sogginess I was in, even as a child, to the amazing show at Weeki Wachee wherein young women with amazing breath-holding skills played at being mermaids in a giant tank.  All this is to say that this book could only have been written about that […]



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