Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Long Due Quest

A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire

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Bingo Square: Happy (New Toby Daye makes me happy) Over the last two months, quite a few fantasy series I enjoy have had new release published. Since I tend to pre-order certain authors, I don’t always pay close attention to the actual release date, so I have woken up to a few surprises lately that changed my reading plans for that day.  For me, these new books have ranged from disappointing to very good, even if I haven’t bothered to review them yet.  A Killing […]

You gotta do what makes you Happy

Super Powereds: Year 1 by Drew Hayes, read by Kyle McCarley

Super Powereds: Year 2 by Drew Hayes, read by Kyle McCarley

Corpies by Drew Hayes, read by Kyle McCarley

Super Powereds: Year 3 by Drew Hayes, read by Kyle McCarley

Super Powereds: Year 4 by Drew Hayes, read by Kyle McCarley

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I saw somewhere that re-reading or re-watching things we’ve enjoyed in the past is great for anxiety, because you’ve already experienced it.  You know exactly what’s going to happen.  And a pandemic is full of anxiety, so a lot of us have discovered this comfort!*     Someone on Facebook was asking for recommendations for an audiobook to listen in the car with her 13- and 15-year-old sons, so I recommended Super Powereds: Year 1 by Drew Hayes.  I remembered that the story was fantastic and […]

Most of this review is whited out spoilers, because I just needed to say some things.

Peace Talks (The Dresden Files, #16) by Jim Butcher

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No fifth star here, folks. What we’ve got here is a part one of two situation. This is basically the first book in a duology inside the series proper, with Battle Ground being part two. We now know why the surprise second book! And I can’t fully judge this one until I see how (most of) it turns out. Luckily, September 29th isn’t that far away. I had to step away from this one for a bit to try and see what Butcher was going […]

How Do You Hide When You’re an Elephant?

The Elephants’ Guide to Hide-And Seek by Kjersten Hayes

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I wanted a book to read. I was at work where it can be ironically hard to find “the one” as there are too many choices. I had a pile of picture books and looked at them and randomly read the covers, backs and insides. When I found “something” (I don’t even remember what that was) that hit me as it was going to be “the one” I said, “This one. We are reading this one.” (Yes, that was the royal we. We were alone […]

Dark stuff of fairy tales

Of Salt and Shore by Annet Schaap

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Do you want to read The Little Mermaid story but with a big twist? Okay, maybe that is not enough. How about do you want to read about a young girl who is dealing with the death of her mother, her father’s drinking, keeping the lighthouse light burning and a real do-gooder teacher? I will loss in a boy who lives in the houses tower and likes biting people as they come into his room (after all, he has to keep up that “monster” persona), […]

Some pods and a couple of friends blast off for adventure

Gurple and Preen: A Broken Crayon Cosmic Adventure by Linda Sue Park

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When you like an author, you want to love everything they write. However, Linda Sue Park and Debbie Ridpath Ohi’s newest picture book, Gurple and Preen: A Broken Crayon Cosmic Adventure crumbled a tad.  While I adore the illustrations of Ohi, the story Park presented was only so-so for me. But kids who like to draw and grand imaginations will appreciate it. The story is simple, a couple of characters, called Gurple and Preen, need to prepare a spaceship for the crew. But several issues […]



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