Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Interesting Developments Dragged Down by the Main Plot

Iron Bones by Yasmine Galenorn

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When some sort of plague starts affecting both the Light and Dark Fae courts, the Wild Hunt is called in to investigate.  Ember is a little distracted though as she’s dealing with her new house which seems to have unwelcome guests of the ghostly sort as well as her father’s family showing up.  But when it becomes clear that this disease may be an attempt to completely destroy the Fae, the stakes are higher than they’ve ever been before. So this book was really interesting, […]

“It’s hard to stop being afraid when the whole world is literally full of monsters.”

City of Nightmares by Rebecca Schaeffer

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Look, when the book’s blurb starts out with “ever since her sister became a man-eating spider”, how in the world could I not pick up this book? And while I was initially put off by the cover (seriously, it doesn’t not match the book at all), I’m so glad I picked this up. It’s a quirky story but one I very much enjoyed. For over a hundred years, people have been afraid of Nightmares. If you dream, you have a chance of turning into a […]

The stranger and the story

The Voice in the Hollow by Will Hillenbrand

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I saw a reader copy online called, The Voice in the Hollow. “Oh, isn’t that sweet.” I thought. “A little critter is going to hear the voice of the wind, nature, other animals, all the above as they go on a cold, winter walk” (or maybe no cold, but it did look blustery). And boy was I wrong. And right. It was sweet, just not that kind of sweet. Our young character, Hubert, (who I fell in love with because of the name) is a […]

Who had Roger Rabbit as my most entertaining book of the year?

Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf

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I really enjoyed this movie when I was a kid. It came out when I was 7 – so I was prime Roger Rabbit age. It was a….different time. That movie was huge. It was maybe the first time I was aware of movies as blockbusters. It was huge, and then I didn’t think about the movie for about a decade. In the mid-90s, I remember Who Framed Roger Rabbit? being in the TV Guide. It was given 5 stars, and I remember being shocked […]

So, my neighbor is a dinosaur

Bolivar by Sean Rubin

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Bolivar by Sean Rubin is a cute book about what we see and do not see, and how that affects us and those around us. Humorous moments will have you laughing, but also you will also think. My library version (a little beat up and I assumed well read) was an oversized “art looking” or child coffee table book (if children had coffee tables). The oversized format might turn off some of the slightly older readers (the book is for ages 8 up to 10 […]

“When one enters a door, one must be brave enough to see the other side.”

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow

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Poetic, fantasy forward portal type science fiction. Plot: January’s father is a travelling archeologist, working with the financial backing of the wealthy Mr. Locke. Indeed, his generosity extends to taking January on as a ward while her father travels the world. Unfortunately, growing up a mixed-race girl in the house of a wealthy white man with no parenting skills is a mixed bag. January grows up a deeply isolated girl, surrounded by myths of portals to other worlds. Only it turns out they aren’t myths, […]



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