Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A good kiss should hint at the possibility of love. A perfect kiss should make you believe in a lifetime of love.

Kiss and Spell by Celestine Martin

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Kiss and Spell is lovely. Celestine Martin has taken the small town witch romance and married it to the fairytale inspired romance and put her own spin on both. Celestine Martin’s writing is magical. I’ll be reading a scene, and suddenly she’ll turn a phrase so that I can see the longing, the sparkle, and the glitter. Kiss and Spell is a confection with just enough weight to not overwhelm with sweet. Ursula was a bit of an antagonist in Witchful Thinking. She was engaged to […]

Doom Thorax has the Power (of reading)

Doom's Day Camp by Joshua Hauke

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I honestly was surprised at how much I liked the graphic novel, Doom’s Day Camp by Joshua Hauke. At first, I felt it was just going to be “dumb humor” or “not for everyone offbeat and off color humor” but most of it turned out to be pretty classy. (Okay! Okay! There is one earth shattering f**t, but it did save the day! And frankly, f**ts are funny if they happen to someone else.) The ideas, of course, have been done before (a nerd/uncool kid […]

When you think you’ve joined the good guys but you’ve really just joined a cult

Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat

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CBR15Bingo: Relation “ship” (cargo ships and relationships) Bingo: (left to right: Dwelling to On the Air) Will Kempen is on the run and on a mission: find the man who had his mother murdered and take him down. Unfortunately, his mission leads him directly into the hands of those who want him dead. After being rescued off of a sinking ship by Violet, the two of them are taken back to the hall of the Stewards (protectors of the light and fighters against the Dark […]

Being Betty

 Itty Bitty Betty Blob by Constance Lombardo

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We have seen the story of Itty Bitty Betty Blob before (being yourself) but this time around it is the art that makes it terribly fun, quirky and fresh. The black, white and gray coloring of the monsters and the world they live in vs. Betty in all of the colors (done by Micha Player) was a fun change to the everything is all color, if not more dull than the person who is flamboyant. Plus, they were clever, and set the mood. Plus, we get some […]

Dragon sniffles

 Roar-Choo! by Charlotte Cheng

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I have a soft spot for Dan Santat’s work. Therefore, when I saw he was promoting a new book due in April 2024, Roar-Choo!, I knew I was going to need a copy. And as much as I prefer paper, desperate times call for desperate measures and I picked up Charlotte Cheng’s picture book via an online reader copy. This book is an adorable bedtime story in general, or for when your own dragon has a sniffle or two (and hopefully without the sneezes that are as […]

Lazy weekend reads

Leon the Extraordinary: A Graphic Novel (Leon Volume one) by Jamar Nicholas

Meems & Feefs: Ferrets from Planet Ferretonia! (Volume one) by Liza N. Cooper

The Prisoner of  Shiverstone by Linette Moor

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I was having a lazy weekend. I needed reading material that would be fun for the kid me, and not overly taxing for the adult me.  And I found two and a half books that fit the bill. I say two and a half because the third one had a bit more meat on the overall story than the others, so there was a bit more thinking required on my part. However, kids will eat all of them up as they are good stories. The […]



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