Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring by Patrick Horvath and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

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Back in November 2025 I found out that book two in the Beneath the Trees series was having a second volume. I tend not to pre order that far in advance, but I said, Screw it! This gal will have her day…. ah book!   And in July 2026  Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring by Patrick Horvath, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, and a few others, came out. Okay, yes it is good, but I had built up volume one so much and had such […]

Final down the rabbit hole with Laura Perez

Ocultos by Laura Pérez and translator Andrea Rosenberg

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Ocultos by Laura Pérez and translator Andrea Rosenberg Each book that I have read by Perez has been stranger than the one before. Contradictions. Too many wordless pages. Too much text. Not enough details to the illustrations and, yes, not enough. The colors are both the perfect touch and the most distracting piece of the work. Each of the three titles are perfect with their similarities, yet they are so different at the same time. How can it be the same author? This author and […]

Book 2 of Laura Perez

Totem by Laura Pérez and Andrea Rosenberg

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I found Laura Pérez via one of my graphic novels down the rabbit hole searches, and Nocturnos came up. I got a finished copy from the library and said that that was an interesting read, let’s do Totem (translated by Andrea Rosenberg) next. Another library read and another book that is literary and artsy. Both titles have a “lofty” element but not a “talk down” to the reader element. But it is sophisticated, and therefore, it might not be for a casual reader of graphic […]

Book one of Laura Perez

Nocturnos by Laura Perez and Andrea Rosenberg

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For the book Nocturnos by Laura Perez and translator Andrea Rosenberg, I had to average out my rating. There are points for my gut reaction, points for my love of the art, and there are points for how I think others will feel about it. Therefore, my score is a 3.75. And that is a good representation of things as it is not for everyone, but there’s a lot to unpack so everyone might find something.  It is literary. It is a dream within a […]

Pirates and Witches and Austen, oh my!

The League of Gentlewomen Witches: Dangerous Damsels Book 2 by India Holton

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Cbr18bingo Summer (my final book review of astronomical summer, which officially ends September 22, 2026, at 8:05 pm ET) What a delightful way to end summer! This book had me from page one, and the fact that I hadn’t read the first book in the series did not get in the way of enjoying this one. India Holton imagines a Victorian England in which witches and pirates, who are mortal enemies, abound. They are all thieves of some taste and class (depending on who you […]

This is propaganda to allow dogs to eat roadkill. And one of my comfort reads.

The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews

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I don’t know what kind of addictive substances Ilona Andrews puts in their writing, but please don’t send me to rehab. I am sometimes surprised by which books become comfort reads. I have several, including a couple from Ilona Andrews. The Inheritance is one of the books that took me by surprise. I read it while it was being serialized and enjoyed it, but my world wasn’t rocked by it. And then I got the itch to listen to the audiobook. Still enjoyable but not […]



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