Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Homerun or Strike out?

Fuzzy Baseball V02: Ninja Baseball Blast by John Steven Gurney

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Fuzzy Baseball V02: Ninja Baseball Blast has the same fun illustrations as before (Fuzzy Baseball V01) but this second book does not hit the home run story that the first book did. John Steven Gurney, you dropped the ball, my friend. Ninja Baseball Blast starts out with a smooth pitch. You see several pages of a baseball fans baseball card collection grace the front pages. The cards are neatly put together in a sheet with each team up to bat. And then the actual story […]

When you have a ghost

Ghost Cat by Kevan Atteberry

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When you think a book called Ghost Cat is going to be a “spooky” Halloween story but instead you get a sweet story about loss (with a special surprise at the end) your day is somewhat made. It is nice to know that Kevan Atteberry was able to surprise me. Even if I had not found this book around Halloween, my thoughts would still go towards it being about a ghost and Halloween. Therefore, I was happily surprised when I learned that it is a […]

First of 3 potential Halloween reads

Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard

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I had to go back through old reviews to see if I’d done this one before, and it turns out that 1) I seem to have done the rest of the series but not this first novel, and 2) a novel from this series was close to my first ever Cannonballer review (third one I think). Good times. I decided to re-read this for 2 reasons: 1) I wanted to do a Halloween read that was not Cassidy Blake 2 because I’m saving that for […]

BINGO BLACKOUT

Beowolf by Unknown, Francis Barton Gummere (Translation)

The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley

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I did it! I cannot believe I managed to pull this off but I realized that I would probably not participate next year and would have been disappointed to get so close this year only to fall short by a book or two. Lemme tell you though- these last two titles were a struggle…  CBR Bingo: Back to School Beowulf, Unknown Over the last few years I have reread several books from my high school years that I loved: In Cold Blood, The Great Gatsby, A […]

I was not prepared for just how left this one went

Ivory (Manhattan 10 #1) by Lola Dodge

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Lola Dodge kicks off a new series of superhero romance novellas with Ivory, the story of a Scandinavian goddess (maybe? it’s never quite clear on this point?) who finds herself mixed up with a superhero team. It’s 80% romance and 20% superhero fiction, if that’s relevant to you. This book didn’t work for me, for a lot of reasons. I liked the premise: super-powered flight attendant kills someone on her flight and ends up having to lie low with a team of supers who are […]

At Queerditch Marsh, however, a game had been invented that would one day become the most popular in the wizarding world.

Quidditch Through the Ages by JK Rowling

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So plenty of you have probably read this one. I listened to the audiobook during a trip to Target, and that’s about where I think this one belongs. It’s the history of Quidditch referenced many time throughout the various Harry Potter novels. It’s one of the ones that Ron loves to read. It’s also a weird book that suggests like a lot of the elements of the world of wizarding, that nothing exists in the series unless it’s expressly named and talked about in the […]



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