Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Review of The Edge of Everything Short Stories

Safe Harbor by Nicola Yoon

Julia at the Drive-in by Rainbow Rowell

Winter Breakage by David Levithan

The Price of Admission by Dustin Thao

Three of Hearts by Katie Cotugno

Back to You by Ann Liang

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Here’s my review of the newest collection of original short stories with the theme of coming to age short stories that revolve around love, school, angst, and everything in between. I honestly enjoyed the majority of the stories, and only really didn’t really gel with one. Safe Harbor by Nicola Yoon and David Yoon (5 stars)-I thought the first story in the collection was great. We follow teen Isabel who has been sent to a group therapy appointment by her parents to help her get […]

“Perhaps being a Light of God is difficult when you’re in a dank box on the ocean.”

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

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I am very glad that I read this book: one, it washed the taste of The Maiden and Her Monster out of my mouth; and two, because it was compared to Good Omens and (luckily) it earned that comparison. When the Angels Left the Old Country is about a small Polish shtetl (in fact, it is so small that it is only known as Shtetl) and the angel and the demon who are chevrusas (or Talmud study partners) there. The angel (occasionally called Uriel, usually […]

Oy Vey, What Dreck.

The Maiden and Her Monster by Maddie Martinez

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On its surface, The Maiden and Her Monster is a sapphic fantasy retelling of the old Czech folktale of The Golem of Prague. Malka, as the village healer’s eldest daughter (and assistant, and second mother to her younger sisters, and professional rage machine), knows about the darkness in the woods; young women go in and they don’t come out. (Meanwhile drunken men go in and they mostly come back; the reasoning for this is barely explained except for “men are garbage”). But the Ozmini Church […]

The Tapestry of Fate: Supporting women’s rights…and women’s wrongs.

The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty

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Tapestry of Fate picks up shortly after the ending of the Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, and is deeply related to some of the happenings towards the end of the first book. So, there will be spoilers below for the Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi. Amina has been granted super-human abilities and tasked with finding five Transgressions. Well, four after the Moon of Saba. We get a small glimpse at Amina, Dalila, Tinbu, and Majed’s adventure to collect the second Transgression early on in the book, but […]

Finding You

Avery the Fox: The Story of a Non-Binary Fox Finding Love for Themself by Trevor R. Day and Tamara M. Day

Avery the Fox: The Story of a Transgender Fox Finding Love for Herself by Trevor R. Day and Tamara M. Day

Avery the Fox: The Story of a Transgender Fox Finding Love for Himself by Trevor R. Day and Tamara M. Day

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Avery the Fox: The Story of a Non-Binary Fox Finding Love for Themself Avery the Fox: The Story of a Transgender Fox Finding Love for Herself Avery the Fox: The Story of a Transgender Fox Finding Love for Himself Vacation lasted a week, but my online reader site thought it was longer, as it put a billion reader copies up that I had to sort through to find just the ones I wanted to read/keep. I figured I must be exaggerating. I mean it couldn’t […]

It walks, talks, learns, and wants to take over the world

How to Train Your Evil Robot, by Joy McCullough and Eduardo Medeiros

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I would have liked a smidgen more technical information in the book, How to Train Your Evil Robot, but overall this is a fun read about AI or of course, artificial intelligence, but the way it is presented mostly allows for the amount we are given to lead to an understanding of what AI is and what it can do. I read via an online reader copy, therefore I could see the graphic novel format, but am also assuming it might be a bit of […]



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