Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Solid Romance But Not As Fun As the First Book

Prince In Disguise by Tavia Lark

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As the youngest in the family and prone to debilitating headaches, Prince Bellamy has always been coddled by his family.  When his ship is wreaked in enemy territory, Bell quickly finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time and taken prisoner.  Knowing his identity of as the youngest prince of Silaise would make everything worse, he claims to be a wandering minstrel when asked.  His fellow prisoner likewise claims to be a farmer, though in reality Rakos Tem is a dragonrider.  All he […]

I Enjoyed This Book, But I Don’t Remember Much About It

Stars of Chaos Volume 1 by priest

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Chang Geng’s life changes when barbarians attack the small northern border town where’s he’s grown up.  He learns in quick succession that woman he thought was his mother is actually both his aunt and a spy for the barbarians who has poisoned him, he is in fact the Emperor’s missing fourth son, and his worthless lay about godfather is actually the leader of the most powerful military battalion.  Chang Geng is quickly swept up the changing tides and trying to figure out what his future […]

A nostalgic, charming romp

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

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This was loaned to me by a friend who said he and his teen daughter loved the whole series, and it is delightful. As someone who grew up with the Oz books, it felt familiar, like a love letter to all our favorite childhood books.  September is 12, living in Nebraska and feeling bored. When the Green Wind calls her ‘somewhat irascible’ and offers a trip to Fairyland, she jumps at the chance. She feels a little bad about not waving goodbye to her mother […]

Delicate is not just a setting on the washing machine

Delicates: Collector's Edition by Brenna Thummler

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Though there is another edition of Delicates: Collector’s Edition by Brenna Thummler already out, I read it via an online reader copy and it is due mid-March 2024. Since I read volume one, Sheets, ages ago and forgot some main points, I think reading this series (Sheets, Delicates, and Lights) all together might be the best way to read. Yet, I am still waiting to find a copy of Lights to confirm this.  There are collectors editions of volumes one and two. But since volume […]

Relationship Between a Vampire and a Werewolf

Fangs by Sarah Andersen

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One of the Read Harder tasks this year is to read a completed web-comic. Not having too much of an idea where to start I did some internet sleuthing and came up with Sarah Andersen’s Fangs. I have been a casual fan of Andersen’s work, particularly her Sarah’s Scribbles series that so often appear on my social media feeds. With the information at hand, this seemed like an excellent solution to finding just the right sort of book for me right now to fulfill this task. […]

Raise the spirits

Fitz and Cleo Put a Party by Jonathan Stutzman

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I am usually not a huge Fitz and Cleo fan, though I do enjoy them. And even though Cleo can have a lot of “muchness” to her, they are sweet characters that are familiar and cozy. However, even though Cleo is still unapologetically herself (a bit naughty, mischievous, and a smidgen bossy), this book, Fitz and Cleo Put a Party on It was terribly pleasantly sweet and the perfect amount of silly. It is probably my favorite out of the books I have read of this brother and sister […]



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