Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A visually beautiful book to test your imagination

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

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This book is absolutely gorgeous and inventive. If you like like lush prose and vivid worlds, you will love this book. Plot: two magicians have an ongoing proxy war between one another to see who can choose and train up a better magician. This book follows a battle that eventually creates the night circus, a magical place where the two combatants fight to show who is a better magician by creating acts and displays that normal people won’t realize is real magic. This is a […]

I have finally finished this mostly terrible, sometimes entertaining, always opinionated epic fantasy series.

Confessor (The Sword of Truth, #11) by Terry Goodkind

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Nothing happened for 70% of this book and then everything happened at once. I’m still not sure how I feel about this ending even though I finished it back in October, but it feels good to be done! I started reading the Sword of Truth in the summer of 2009, and have now finished it in fall 2020. That is a long-ass time. I’m sad to say for the corner of the internet that has looked forward to my reviews of these books, I will […]

“Because it’s easy to ignore a woman . . . But a hell of a lot harder to ignore a witch.”

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

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I really liked this book. To quote the book itself, it’s “witchy as hell.” Honestly, the only thing keeping me from giving this five stars is that the style of the writing didn’t perfectly gel with me, and that is obviously very subjective. I would looooove to see this adapted as a limited event series on a premium streaming service or network. The premise here is that we’re in an alternate history where magic and witches were once real, not just scapegoats for whatever was […]

What if your school was always trying to kill you?

A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1) by Naomi Novik

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Semi-brief review because I read this back in October, and my memory of it has faded. I remember being engrossed in it. I love the concept of a magic school that runs itself. And I love the horror aspect of this, that all these kids are trapped in this school because it’s too dangerous outside for them, even though it’s dangerous inside the school as well. I really liked the protagonist, El (short for Galadriel). She is so grouchy and anti-social, but as with all […]

When One Book Closes, here are two others

Wild about Dads by Diana Murray

Little Monster Trucks GO! by Doug Cenko

I Will Dance by Nancy Bo Flood

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I cannot concentrate on long novels of late. When that happens (and occasionally it does), I turn to my picture books (hence why this is number 3 of a list of picture books today). No theme to these. Just three books I read, I liked and wanted to pass along to you. Wild about Dads  by Diana Murray (author), Amber Alvarez (illustrations) While I am giving this a 5, it is a 4.5 mostly because I wanted more! MORE dads and the things they do! […]

From A to Zany titles

My Two Dads and Me by Michael Joosten

The Smeds and the Smoos by Julia Donaldson

Every Little Letter by Deborah Underwood

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Today’s books range from ABC and 123 learning to letting you know that you can do anything if you try to a girl growing antlers and a boy waking up flat. And when you find a handful of books that deal with being different and different is okay, the only thing you can do is write reviews about them so others will read them too. I found a board book the other day called My Two Dads and Me. It is written by Michael Joosten. […]



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