Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can’t carry on at all.”

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

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I’ve been working on this review for a while, and I was finally going to polish it and publish it, but I ended up deleting it, so I’m going to quickly do a new one. I read Carry On back when it first came out (I would normally link to my review, but I never actually reviewed it). I loved it back then, so now that the sequel was being released, and with a bit of time to kill waiting for my fancy copy to […]

There’ll be peace when you are done?

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

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This might be my most subdued five star rating ever. I liked this, but it’s a whole different vibe from Carry On, and oh my dear lord did I ever love Carry On. The Simon Snow gang goes on an American Road Trip (TM) so that Penny can meet up with her suddenly terse long distance boyfriend (no points awarded for adding two and two together), and Simon is having an existential crisis after the comedown from saving the world, which impacts his relationship with […]

Pumpkins, Fall, Growing up, and Young Love or Why Fall is a Great Metaphor for Senior Year

Pumpkin Heads by Ranbow Rowell

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Pumpkin Heads by Rainbow Rowell My rating: 5 of 5 stars Josiah and Deja work at a pumpkin patch. Not just any pumpkin patch. This place has rides, attractions, multiple fall themed food booths and a corn maze. When you get to see this pumpkin patch think of the harvest festival from Parks and Rec. Josiah and Deja are both high school seniors and it’s their last night of the last season at the patch. They’ve worked at the pumpkin patch for multiple seasons and […]

I never actually wrote a review of this, so here are some thoughts I typed up to a Goodreads friend instead.

Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2) by Rainbow Rowell

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I just never got myself together enough to write more than “THOUGHTS” as a review on Goodreads, so here are some disjointed notes (edited for clarity) I sent over to a Goodreads friend instead: 1. In response to everyone going into this book assuming it was a duology: I thought about this, too, but ultimately it doesn’t bother me too much. I had been going in expecting this to be the end of the story as well, and it very much wasn’t. Maybe on a […]

A timely review for a book about Halloween.

Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks

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Short and sweet 🙂 I really want to go to an effing pumpkin patch now. (I’ve never been! It’s not really a thing in the Southwest.) I actually read this back in September after it was first released, and I read it in about an hour in one sitting as I was drinking some coffee at Barnes & Noble. I didn’t remember much more than my major impressions, so I went ahead and re-read it just now ahead of writing this review. Some impressions: The […]

It’s the same story on repeat but still pretty fun

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

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Apparently the multi-narrator thing is now a trend in certain types of fiction. I heard this a while ago, but hadn’t thought on it much until I picked up Carry On. I’ve read Fangirl, so I had a basic idea but what I hadn’t realized was that Carry On uses one of my least favorite narrative styles, first person present, and the multi-narrator story. Together these things drag down what would otherwise be a great fan fic/twist on the “Chosen One” brand of hero story. […]



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