Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I am a bad mother but I am learning to be good.

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

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CBR14 BINGO: Rec’d Square (Barack Obama’s Summer 2022 Reading List. And, just about everybody’s book club recommends this.) This is a really tough one to review without giving BIG plot points away. Proceed with caution. It’s easy to feel guilty when you’re a mother. When my son was born almost 7 weeks early, a social worker came to visit me in my hospital room while he was still in the NICU. From what I remember from that day 17 years ago, the social worker was kind […]

Okay! So I stole the image from online, but the review is all mine

Delilah Dirk and the Pillars of Hercules (Delilah Dirk, Volume 3) by Tony Cliff

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Delilah Dirk and the Pillars of Hercules (Delilah Dirk, Volume 3) by Tony Cliff has slightly darker content and images, than the other two novels in this graphic novel series. But it still has the same adventure, humor, and spunk of before. This time we follow our Delilah and her companion, Mr. Selim, as she tries and find a lost city, find treasure, fight the bad guys, try not to die (more than once) and deal with a newfound celebrity status that she really did […]

Contains more teeth than you can imagine

Bright World (The Hazards of Love #1) by Stan Stanley

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Title from online review   Bright World (The Hazards of Love #1) by Stan Stanley is dark, odd, sexy, thoughtful, spooky, serious, humorous, and much more. The path of love is never easy, especially when a talking cat tricks you out of your life and you are tossed into a magical realm where humans are snacks, slaves or worse. Gorgeous illustrations that are both overly busy and simple, will amaze and create unease as you flow through the story of a non-binary teen and what […]

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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I have read this book possibly two dozen times and each time I am still amazed by it and find more things to think about and talk about. If you’ve never read it, you should do so immediately. It is one of the most amazingly alive books in American literature. At the beginning of the novel we get a kind of collective narrative voice talking about Janie Woods (Killicks, Stark) coming back into town. The gossip is heated as we’re told that she ran off […]

And the daughter who had no choice but to keep them all out of jail

Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto

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Ma’s hand flies to her mouth again. “Did I get boy killed because I say I want to eat his eggplant?”― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties This is the story of a loyal daughter, who accidentally murders her date, and the group of aunties who have no choice but to help her cover up the crime while running an over-the-top Indonesian Chinese wedding. It’s Dial A for Aunties. I bought this book while on vacation. Although I didn’t read it until I got […]

“Bridgerton meets Se7en, but make it boring”*

A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem by Manda Collins

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A regency romance murder mystery that acknowledges the societal problems of the time and cares about explicit consent. Also banter. Oh, you’re still here? Alright. Plot: Lady Katherine Bascomb is an independently wealthy widow who runs a newspaper. Among her interests is the crime beat, for which she writes regularly. The book starts with her meeting her soulmate, Caroline Hardcastle, a fellow writer. Together, they decide to start a guide to address the intolerable gap in crime reporting that considers the female perspective (with goals […]



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