Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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“The truth is that the truth is almost beside the point.”

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family  by Jesselyn Cook

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I begin the year hunting through my very long TBR looking for books for the various Read Harder Challenge tasks. Some of those tasks are easier than others, and some I think will be easy to pick out a book for from my TBR and find that I don’t have any that fit… or maybe only one. That was the case with reading a book about cults – I thought for sure I had plenty of options for it but in fact only The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the […]

“When you love someone who deserves it, you have to be willing to adapt a little.”

Nobody's Baby (Dorothy Gentleman #2) by Olivia Waite, Blair Baker (narrator)

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The second book in the Dorothy Gentleman series by Olivia Waite was one of my most anticipated books of 2026. I’m pleased to report that Nobody’s Baby lived up to my hopes. The book continues in the world that Murder by Memory began last year. The world Dorothy lives in is that of 10,000 people living on a generation ship sailing through space on their way to a new home. The Fairweather has been sailing through space for three centuries already and its passengers live ,and age, and when it’s time to die they are provided a new body aged 20, and their consciousness and genotype are loaded in from the saved files in the Library when they are ready. […]

No One Despairs Quite Like a Well-Loved House Pet.

Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair by Lucy Knisley

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I feel as though my reading year is starting off very slowly. I have a couple books on hand from the library that I’m having trouble sinking into and should probably return and try again later, I have been waiting for other things to come off holds, and had to wait for a book I purchased to be replaced since pages were falling out of the binding.  Plus, my attention span hasn’t really been great, either.   So, I decided to lean a bit into some of the short works I had selected for some […]

Historical Fiction Graphic Novel in Translation

Surrounded: America’s First School for Black Girls, 1832  by Wilfrid Lupano, Stéphane Fert (illustrator)

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Along with From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea I picked up Surrounded: America’s First School for Black Girls, 1832 from the library to help (hopefully) re-set my reading brain. This is a graphic novel in translation (originally written and published in French) which is focuses in on a more unknown bit of American history. I feel comfortable calling it such as this is one of my general areas and this school and the court cases surrounding it had missed me, even though Crandall v. State (of Connecticut) was one of the first civil rights […]

“…for you are my child, courageous and free.”

From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea by Kai Cheng Thom, Wai-Yant Li and Kai Yun Ching (illustrators)

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My January reading stalled out a bit, so I decided to pivot to some Read Harder Challenge tasks with shorter works. Task 16 this year is to read a queer picture book. The goal of the challenge is to broaden reading habits, and this task certainly did since I had no picture books on my very long TBR. I did some research, checked my library catalogue, and decided on From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea.   This is an extraordinarily beautiful book, both in its message and its visuals. Illustrators Wai-Yant Li and Kai Yun Ching deliver a […]

“That’s all any of us can do, in the end. Say bismillah, and try.”

Three Holidays and a Wedding by Uzma Jalaluddin and Marisa Stapley

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Last year I read Uzma Jalaluddin’s Ayesha at Last and enjoyed it enough to have her on my radar for a book to add to this year’s list. With a happy coincidence of needing a non-Christmas holiday romance for the Read Harder challenge, Three Holidays and a Wedding by Jalaluddin and Marissa Stapley. The story is set in December 2000 when Ramadan, Hannukah, and Christmas all overlapped and tells the story of several people who are snowbound in a small Canadian town when their plane is diverted on its approach to Toronto.   […]



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