Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Three stars, for now. It’s not the book it’s me??

Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy, #2) by Marlon James

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This book has been holding up my review queue since I finished it in late March. I was surprised at my reaction to it when I read it, and wasn’t sure what I wanted to say, because I wasn’t sure if I liked the book or not. And, if I didn’t like it, why not? I feel like nothing much has changed in James’s style in the last three years. I think it’s me, and that I just wasn’t in the mood at all to […]

All about Benny

Benny’s True Colors by Norene Paulson

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I have read books about transgender adults. I have read books about trans kids. In these books they will live their true selves. They can be who they are not only on the inside but outside. However, I am not sure how to interpret Benny’s True Colors within my experiences of these other books. I am more than happy for someone to read this book and let me know if they think Benny is living their true selves by “presenting” a true self or if […]

Helping you to understand the mystery/horror genius

Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaption by Gareth Hinds

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If you love graphic novels, stories by Poe, or thriller stories, (and are in your teens to adulthood) then you should try this graphic novel adaption, Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaption by Gareth Hinds. Included are a handful of Poe’s more famous and infamous stories and poems. Each are laid out in all their gory, I mean glory. Having the illustrations, which are dark, lacking in color, but filled with details, allows to see some of the images that might have not […]

I want a friend like Plum

Leave It to Plum! by Matt Phelan

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Plum can be a bit, shall we say, enthusiastic and naïve, but that also makes them endearing in Leave It to Plum! by Matt Phelan. Plum is a peacock at the local zoo. Plum and their peacock friends and family wander freely throughout greeting guests. Until one day peacock feathers have been found at the scene of several crimes within the zoo. Plum cannot imagine anyone in the zoo trying to frame them, but Plum soon learns that sometimes things are not what they seem, […]

I think my house might be Ivy’s….

Ivy by Katherine Coville

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Digging, digging through my junk, I found this book. What luck! As the above said, I was cleaning the other day and found this reader copy of Ivy by Katherine Coville. Therefore, the illustrations were not completed, so I can only tell you that the images I did see look fun, cozy, and good for the ages aimed at. Which is kindergarten to second grade. The younger are listeners, the older with help and solo reads. I can also tell you that this is an […]

A Hippo Walks into a Zoo

Hippopotamister by John Patrick Green

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When Red Panda leaves the broken zoo, in Hippopotamister by John Patrick Green, he comes back every so often to tell Hippo how wonderful the outside world is. And Hippo enjoys these visitations until one day Hippo is not content to just listen to the stories, he wants to leave and find a wonderful job for himself, like Red Panda has had so many off (and yes, folks, Hippo is a sweet, naïve lug of a hippo and did not see the red flags). And […]



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