Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I used 266 words to describe a wordless book

Whirl by Deborah Kerbel

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One hundred eighty-seven words are what the publisher description includes. If you wish to read about the title Whirl by Deborah Kerbel, this is your introduction.  Yes, it deserves to be talked about, but I find it amusing that a wordless picture book (except for the description at the end about maple seeds) has that many words to describe it. The result of that description is to tell you the whole story. You do not get to experience it fresh. I was lucky enough to […]

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia

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I’m going to start this review like an online recipe: by providing a long back-story that is not relevant to why you are here. I have always been an avid reader and have dabbled a bit with writing. Several years ago, I attempted to participate in the Cannonball Read. I posted exactly one review. My problem was two-fold. One, the Pajiba crowd seems so well-read, articulate, witty, and generally smarter then me. This left me feeling intimidated, as though my reviews would be ‘I liked […]

I need these books in a completed edition!

Asadora! V02 by Niaoki Urasawa

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Asadora! V02 starts with a short flashforward to “now” (or the “now” of the story), we are teased by a theme introduced but not explored in book one. Two scientists find a clue to proving Asa might not have been seeing things the day of the tsunami that destroyed her home and tore her family apart. We then go to where we left off in book one continuing Asa’s story of trying to help others by flying over the flooded town, dropping food to those […]

Even adults have the feeling

Almost Always Best, Best Friends by Apryl Stott

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Best friends Poppy and Clementine love being best friends. However, one day Clementine is not able to play with Poppy as they are playing with a new friend, Georgia. And, like most children, Poppy is jealous of this new friendship, especially when Clementine talks non-stop about how wonderful this new friend is and how she is better than Poppy. Almost Always Best, Best Friends shows how friendships change, grow, and even shows that sometimes even best friends can have problems and hurt each other feelings. […]

Fun, Fast Fantasy Reads

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

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I decided to read the Shadow and Bone series after watching the first season of the series on Netflix, and the general fantasy/magic world of the Grishaverse seemed like it would be my jam. If you’re looking to cut to the chase rather than reading my take on each book: if YA Fantasy is your thing, these books are worth reading! I tore through the whole series, and while it was certainly not perfect, it was very enjoyable and every book managed to be a […]

“Nature is chaos, magic is order, but they are not wholly unrelated.”

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

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After seeing this book blowing up everywhere on BookTok, I was curious enough to try it out myself, especially after seeing that it had been acquired by Tor. In the past, recommendations from there have been hit or miss, and unfortunately, this one was a bit of a miss. “Nature is chaos, magic is order, but they are not wholly unrelated.” Every decade, six medeians – magicians – are picked by the secretive Alexandrian Society (yes, as in the Library of Alexandria) to compete for […]



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