Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

So I Probably Should Have Googled the Author first

The Binding by Bridget Collins

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Bingo Square: TBR (bought it as a daily deal over 2 years ago) – this is also the last square I can mark without also getting another Bingo To start, this was a book I randomly had in my kindle account because it was a fantasy novel with an interesting concept and a gorgeous cover that was cheap/on sale one day (I think it had an olderc prettier version of the cover still when I bought it). I haven’t seen much (or anything) about this […]

An Apocalyptic Treat

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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I was three-quarters through Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven before the panic set in. Up until that point, I was engrossed in Mandel’s tale about an apocalyptic pandemic that killed 99% of those who contracted it, but it hadn’t gotten under my skin per se. In this world, only small groups of people survived the devastating and quick-killing flu, and all the features of civilization had disappeared: electricity, motorized transportation and airplanes, medical facilities, communications, and mechanized industry. As I read on, Mandel’s detailed […]

Powerful YA

Shards of Silence by Brian Lee Young

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Shards of Silence is an excellent book that’s grappling with intergenerational trauma of residential schools, as well as the story of Derrick coping with the pressures of being in a new environment far away from his community and family. There’s the weight of holding traumatic events inside and not speaking of them, as well as choices Derrick makes in order to meet the demands of the college-preparatory school he has the opportunity to attend. I really loved how many topics were woven into this, and […]

A Magic School for Kids

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

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CBR Square- School I read The Incandescent by Emily Tesh because she promoted it on Threads as a book with a magic school where the adults are allowed to be competent. And that doesn’t mean they don’t make mistakes, but when the students get themselves into trouble with their magic, they go to an adult who can help them and she does. So this is entirely told from the adult perspective, and one demon. I really liked it a lot. Dr. Walden is the Director of Magic […]

The Quick Brown Fox…

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

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Ella is a young women living on the island of Nollop, off the coast of the Southern United States. The island is named after the man who came up with the famous line, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” a pangram that up uses every letter in the alphabet once. Nollop is revered as the founder and preeminent intellectual, really second only to God in Nollopian society. One day, the letter ‘z’ comes unglued from the statue of Nollop in the middle […]

PUUUUNK!

Be Your Own Backing Band by Liz Prince

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The author, Liz Prince, has become a reading staple of late. I have read most (if not all) that is  out there (minus a few things she just illustrated). But when I got Be Your Own Backing Band, I felt that Prince might have had one of her best collections yet. But then again, she could probably write a phone book and I would read it. After I finished, I said, “Keep on coming with the cool and goodness!” This is a look at how […]



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