Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills.”

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

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Even though I’m a big ol’ nerd, I have never been interested in The Wheel of Time series until recently. The new Wheel of Time show on Amazon Prime did it (all hail Rosamund Pike). My family watched it together, and once season one ended I picked up the first book of the very long series. So, I’m coming at this review from the show first and then the books. My review of the show is that it’s not for me. I’m not really sure […]

The Keeper of Lost Things kinda loses its way…

The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan

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During a recent trip to Barnes & Noble, I decided I wanted, for fun, for my fiancee to pick a book for me at random based solely upon the cover. Loving flowers, like she does, she naturally picked this one: The Keeper of Lost Things. Initially, in the more grounded beginning, I was liking this book. A man who lost his wife, as well as something special she’d given him to hold onto, decides to devote his life to picking up any and every lost […]

Sad about not liking this one

The First Sister by Linden Lewis

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2.5/5 rounded up. I really wanted to like this one but I mostly did not. Cool world, concepts and even character ideas but the writing didn’t follow through. *Sigh* I got this as a post release ARC from Netgalley (my first! I’m still figuring out how it works and if I actually want to do it). This obviously did not affect what I am about to say lol Full review: I wanted this to work for me so much. This really should be right up […]

Before I grow up I want to read all the books in the world!

Before I Grew Up by John Miller

The Snail with the Right Heart: A True Story by Maria Popova

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Picture book time! The roundup of two different but equally marvelous books are below. They are for all ages, but best for the older (at least five and up) child, but adults please note that these two books are a must read for you. Maybe you will not learn something (though the second does have a bit of gender commentary) but you should find something to be in awe over. The artwork alone is worth the price of admission! Before I Grew Up has some […]

Brutal yet often funny, Joe Abercrombie’s return to adult fantasy

A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie

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Savine dan Glotka – “One man’s mad is another’s perceptive” Isern-i-Phail – “One man’s mad is another’s remarkable” In the mid 2000’s I discovered Joe Abercrombie’s gritty and brutal “First Law Trilogy”.  It was unlike any fantasy I had read up to that point and I tore through it.  But for whatever reason I never picked up the standalone volumes that occurred afterwards.  A few years ago Abercrombie put out a YA fantasy series that I was overall disappointed with, excellent first book, second was […]

Up Up and Crash… after saving the day

Sort of Super by Eric Gapstu

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At first, I almost did not finish this book due in March 2022.  I was thinking that Sort of Super was just another kid superhero who has the brain of a grape. One should not be thinking “Dumba$$” about an eleven-year-old/middle school kid. But Wyatt is a dumb dumba$$. I understand not being able to handle his powers or having misunderstandings (we all have had to calibrate to our “other left”), but even a kid should know what a “Muggle Dumbledore” means (not that he […]



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