Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“Killing a calf is the worst of the worst you know. Beside it, breaking a promise is nothing really. Nothing at all.”

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

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In One Word: Heart-stopping Cannonball Read Bingo Square: The Wilds My friends (not my friends, my pretend internet friends) on my favorite podcast Literary Disco read this book and Tod said it was the scariest thing he’d ever read, really talked up how terrifying it was. It’s been quite a while since I read anything horror, so I was intrigued. A friend of mine happened to be down for reading it as well, so a two-woman book club was born! We journeyed down this road […]

A whole bunch of horror

A head full of ghosts by Paul Tremblay

The elementals by Michael McDowell

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

Later by Stephen King

The Sun Down motel by Simone St. James

The only good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The hunger by Alma Katsu

Lovecraft country by Matt Ruff

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Hi! My name is The Book Omnivore and I am a few months late to the Cannonball Read  party. I hope that’s ok. I’ve participated in CR a couple of times before but I always hesitate to join because some years I read loads of books and other years my brain refuses to read anything more complicated than the instructions for how you make tea, and I never know what kind of year it’s going to be. But having already read 27 books by May […]

The Only Good Indians- Atmosphere for DAAAAYYYYSSSS

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

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The Only Good Indians has been on my too- read shelf for at least a year now (I got an ARC and then promptly forgot to read it until after the book had been published). Then, someone on Cannonball reviewed it and reminded me how excited I was to read it originally- so here we are. The only Good Indians is about a group of friends and former friends literally haunted by a shameful act from their past. I am hesitating to describe more because […]

Mixed Bag II

Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones

How it Ends by Rachel Howzell Hall

Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton

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Mapping the Interior – Stephen Graham Jones – 3/5 Stars This short novella by Stephen Graham Jones takes two familiar genres, or sub-genres, and puts them together in a space that is interesting, if limited. For one, we have a haunting. In this novella, a 12 year old boy becomes increasingly aware of some kind of supernatural manifestation in his house. Through guesswork and experience, he determines it must be the ghost of his dead father. This guesswork leads the book into its secondary genre, […]

Assorted Short Fiction II

Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones

The AI Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole

A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

Yard Work by David Koepp

Anonymous by Uzodinma Iweala

There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed by Edgar Cantero

The Remedy by Adam Haslett

Falls the Shadow by Skip Horack

Screwball by Simon Rich

The Beckoning Fair One by Dan Chaon

Q&A by Ben Winters

Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry

Decorum at the Deathbed by Josh Malerman

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Night of the Mannequins – 3/5 Stars – Stephen Graham Jones This is a newish novella from Stephen Graham Jones that you’ll have to roll with the bad title and go with it because it does some very interesting things. It has a significant flaw by the end, and the way I will describe that is that it either doesn’t trust the audience or trust itself to make the more interesting choice. The plot involves a group of teenagers, friends and frenemies, who friend works […]

the only Scream sequel I need

The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones

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Take the meta-horror-commentary of Scream and dial it up to eleven; there at the top of the stairs, silhouetted in moonlight and brandishing a rusty machete, you will find The Last Final Girl. Stephen Graham Jones is leaning hard into the tropes of teen slasher movies, and if you aren’t in on the joke it will fly over your freshly-severed-by-garage-door-head. The story is presented almost as a film treatment; close ups, pans, POVS, and audience responses are all written in and used with cheeky abandon. […]



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