Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A book Susan Eaddy and Lucy Fleming made

Eenie Meenie Halloweenie by Susan Eaddy

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Let’s end the year with my favorite holiday, Halloween. Eenie Meenie Halloweenie is a clever rhyming book that uses the child’s imagination to pick out a Halloween costume. Should she be an elephant or penguin? She is sure whatever it will be, it is going to be something she can make and the clever ideas on how to make a penguin or monkey will be great for dress up time any time of the year. Her solution is clever, if not necessarily the most realistic, […]

Guess Who

Are You a Cat? by Coll Muir

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Are You a Cat? No Coll Muir I am a person who is writing a review of your book Are You a Cat? I would like to ask, why did you write this book in the traditional picture book format? It would make a fantastic over sized or lap board book. Why did you decide to have your cat lie? It is neat that we get to see one fact about the animals: birds fly, rabbits hide in holes, butterflies sit on flowers without squishing […]

ghost stories with a history lesson or two

The Vine that Ate the South by J.D. Wilkes

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This book is fast, ferocious, and fun- which is not a surprise, considering it was crafted by J. D. Wilkes of the Legendary Shack Shakers. He wrote a rollicking Kentucky Odyssey-meets-Stand by Me and illustrated it himself to boot. Not only is this a “do you wanna see a dead body” sort of tale, but it’s also a thoughtful look at the overpowering anarchy of kudzu vine (the titular invasive vine that ate the south), and the people of Appalachia herself. All of the characters within The […]

The Series is Greater than the Sum of its Parts

The Descent of Monsters (The Tensorate Series) by JY Yang

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  Last year, I reviewed JY Yang´s twin novellas The Black Tides of Heaven and The Red Threads of Fortune and was quite charmed by them, with their clever worldbuilding and experimental narrative styles. Described as ´silkpunk´ by the author, the world of the Tensorate is an ingenious mix of politics and magic. With The Descent of Monsters, JY Yang continues to experiment by writing this third instalment in an epistolary fashion. This is their boldest choice by far, as the switch between letters, diaries […]

The end of the world has arrived. Finally.

The Core (Demon Cycle #5) by Peter V Brett

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I’m normally a pretty fast reader, as well as someone who usually wants their fantasy series to continue on forever, but The Core stopped that trend. Taking an almost excruciatingly long two months to slog through, this was partly down to the time of year (work always gets crazier than normal in the lead up to Christmas) but also down to the fact that I was pretty much over this series by the end of the third book. The end point that the series has […]

What if you could weaponize memories?

The Memory Thief by Lauren Mansy

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Lauren Mansy’s The Memory Thief was the Mocha Girls Read book club read for October. I appreciate how all my book clubs push me to read stories I may not have picked on my own. I love the YA fantasy genre, so I was intrigued by the premise of using memories as power. In this world, the Gifted can take memories and weaponize them by forcing bad memories on other people. There’s an evil tyrant named Madame who enjoys wielding memories for cruel means and […]



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