Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I think I’ll swear off fries thanks

Boris the Potato Child by Anne Simon

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CBR15Passport author new to me. The publisher description says almost all you need to know about Boris the Potato Child: “a bitter critique of our consumerist impulses and abuses.” Anne Simon created a book that can be violent, exploitative, perverted, and triggering. It is dark, ugly, and powerful. Regardless of if you love or hate, it is a story that can make you think. And Jenna Allen’s translation feels smooth. Outside of a few little quirks, you cannot tell this was not originally English. Of […]

Both light, dark, funny, silly, goofy, inspirational and a few things in between poetry for all ages

Lila Duray: A Collection of Delightfully Delectable Poems by Emily Morrison

What Color Is Goodness? by Emily Morrison

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CBR15Passport new author When I had the opportunity to obtain copies of a new to me poets work, I was excited. I love finding new people to read and hopefully recommend. And yes, I will be recommending Emily Morrison. And granted, while not everything in her poetry collection was to my personal tastes, I enjoyed the mixture of classical poems and modern sensibilities. There are rhymes in most of them, some are funny and some serious. The mixture helps mix things up, so you are […]

“My inner being is exceptionally cranky and I often don’t want her company myself.”

The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

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CBR Passport Challenge: Books Recommended by Friends This is the second book in a trilogy. It doesn’t really make sense if you’ve not read the series from the beginning. So if you’re not caught up, go read A Deadly Education. It’s great, I’ll wait. El and Orion are now seniors in the Scholomance, and they have absolutely no way of knowing if their very dangerous mission just before graduation to fix the furnaces worked. Did they manage to clear the graduation hall of the majority […]

Very Dumb Name for a Not-So Dumb Character

My Gently Raised Beast vol. 1 by Yeosulki, Teava, Early Flower

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So random mindless entertainment impulse buy at WalMart turns out to be slightly less mindless than I’d assumed. My Gently Raised Beast v.1 is about an orphan girl discovering she’s a princess when her emperor father has her brought to the palace, but given her peasant upbringing and non-noble mother, no one is nice to her. She makes friends with a kitty, who turns out to be pretty special etc. Besides the pretty standard plot, the MC’s name doesn’t get much more cliché: “Blondina” may […]

Magic Tides: Kate & Curran Still Going Strong

Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews

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Plot summary of Magic Tides: Kate, Curran and their son, Conlan have left Atlanta, vowing to keep a low profile, and are settling into a new city and new house…but some things never change! Magical mayhem is about to erupt when Kate undertakes the rescue of a kidnapped youth, while Curran guards the homefront. It should be a simple retrieval, but with monsters on land and sea, Kate’s got her work cut out for her. Still, she’s never let her blade dull or her purpose […]

“Frosting isn’t a good medium for lengthy dissertations on fate.”- Wayward Children Book 3

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

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“Nobody promised me a happy ending. They didn’t even promise me a happy existence.” This volume takes place chronologically shortly after Book One. One day at Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children, a girl named Rini falls out of the sky and into the turtle pond. She claims she came from Confection, a Nonsense world where her mother was in charge. She came back to our Earth to save her mother, a teenage student at the school. The problem is that her mother died in […]



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