Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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This is royaly F’d up and down and sideways

V for Vendetta by Alan Morre, David Lloyd and DC Comics

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There is always a book that draws me in; wanting me to read it; teasing me; laughing at me because it knows I will never take the leap out of my comfort zone and plunge in. And V for Vendetta was one of those books. My excuses for not reading? Too long, too dark, too old school, too popular, what a dull and boring (and a little off putting) cover. My excuse for finally picking it up to read? Nothing more than there was a […]

Book 5 & 6

Spirited #5 Howl at the Moon by Liv Livingston

Spirited #6 It Came from the Deep by Liv Livingston

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Have you ever gotten hooked on a series that was a couple thousand pages each book? Well, thankfully the Spirited series might be a couple hundred for all six books but you will most likely (or your child more likely) become hooked. This easier to read graphic novel series is for the at least six and up crowd.   Spirited #5 Howl at the Moon by Liv Livingston (or LIV Livingston) is about one of the three main characters who is the werepup. Oh, yeah, […]

Book 4

Spirited V04: Fangs for the Memories by Liv Livingston and Glass House Graphics

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A few years ago, Spirited V01 Day of the Living came out. Then Volume 2: Go, Ghoul, Go!, Volume 3: Greenhouse of Horror and then Spirited V04: Fangs for the Memories all by Liv Livingston and Glass House Graphics (illustrator). Which is what I am writing about today. The others, Volume 5: Howl at the Moon came out last year, with Volume 6: It Came from the Deep out in early 2026, and still not read. Yet. And while you do need to read at […]

A YA Contemporary Fiction and a YA Fantasy

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

She Knows All the Names by Michelle Jabes Corpora

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CBR18 BINGO: Or (for Clap When You Land – lots of choices), Middle (for She Knows All the Names – 2nd book in a trilogy) Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo This is a YA novel in verse, which makes it a fairly quick read. When a DR-bound plane departing New York goes down, it affects Yahaira and Camino, daughters of a man on the plane, but each is unaware of the other’s existence. Their father was a man with secrets, with a legal family in the U.S. and a second daughter […]

Books and Coffee and Pastries, Oh My!

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

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CBR18 BINGO: Friends I feel like I would really like Travis Baldree if I met him in person. Based on the number of women in his books and the way he writes about them, he really seems to just love women in a non-creepy way. His books are cozy and it almost feels like he decided one day, “I like coffee and books and pastries, so I’m going to write about those things,” and luckily enough, readers want to read about those things. There’s something […]

that feeling when you didn’t realize that a book you’re reading is by the same author as another book you read a million years ago and really liked as well

The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley

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I didn’t put the pieces together, but Natasha Pulley’s debut was The Watchmaker of Filigree Street of similar handwavy magic meant to help the stoic repressed gays together in all locations and time eras–and in this case, multiple! RIGHT SO plot, quickly: Joe is our main character, who has woken up on a train pulling into what he thought was Kings Cross station but is now Gare du Roi station. It is 1897 ish, everyone is speaking French, and while he has literally no memory of […]



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