Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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“If we were all a little more selfish with our own lives instead of being in such a hurry to defend everything to the death the universe would be a much less scary place”

Saga (Volume 8) by Brian K Vaughan

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With a backdrop that is distinctly western, this volume starts with a wooden sign that says, “Welcome to Abortion Town!” And how you feel about that as an opening to a graphic novel (offended? jarred? intrigued) is a pretty good barometer for if you would like this series. I find it overall to be a jarring delight, but it’s not for everybody (she says, knowing she recommended it at work, and now someone she works with is reading it and she immediately had an OH […]

“This war was a choice.”

Wake of War by Zac Topping

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Wake of War author Zac Topping is a veteran, and it shows. In Topping’s debut novel, war is not treated as a glorious thing, but rather as an absurd cancer, or a toxin. The reader leaves with the distinct feeling that any sort of violence damages everyone involved. Somehow, despite the gravity of the subject, Topping wrote an entertaining book. He has a knack for simultaneously shoving the reader into the chaos of a firefight, while also slowing things down to more closely inspect the […]

“The happiest families I ever met were all frayed…but they were also tighter than a hangman’s noose.”

Saga (Volume 7) by Brian K Vaughan

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I’m still a million years behind in Saga and this will be the last installment I read for 2022, which is quite the note to end on. As it’s the tale end of the holiday season and I still have Christmas on my brain, to sum up my feelings I will steal from the immortal words of Kevin McCallister as he looks at Buzz’s girlfriend’s photograph, “Woof.” This installment of the series is a doozy. Hazel has finally been reunited with her family and they […]

“We’re all alients to someone. Even among our own people, most of us still feel like complete foreigners from time to time.”

Saga (Volume 6) by Brian K Vaughan

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It’s been a while since I read Saga (June 2018 to be exact, thanks Goodreads!) so as I look for some quick reads to finish out my Cannonball (no shame in my strategy game!) I decided to get caught up on the series that really puts the GRAPHIC into graphic novels. I did a quick pass through Volume 5 as a refresher before moving ahead with volume 6 and volume 7. As I said, it’s been four years since I read this, and was briefly […]

I wasn’t ready for the Alex Craft series to end.

Grave War by Kalayna Price

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CBR14 Bingo Square: Shadow I’m a big fan of witches and magic mysteries, so I got immediately hooked on the Alex Craft novels. In book one, Alex uses her magic to raise shades, which aren’t quite ghosts. More like the memory imprint of a person after they pass. It’s a very handy skill to have a shade testify in their murder trial. Alex has been quite a few personal revelations, a love triangle, and an angry fae queen by the time we reach the final […]

A short but interesting story

Signal Moon by Kate Quinn

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I think this book was a short that fulfilled a Kindle reading challenge accomplishment, so it was kind of a random pick. I didn’t know anything about the interception and decryption of enemy naval communications. I’m not that into history, so that isn’t a surprise. This story centers around a woman named Lily who works in Bletchley Park in 1943 decrypting enemy communications. She scans through radio transmissions and passes on what she hears to her superiors. If there’s anything helpful or actionable, they can […]



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