Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

It’s been four months since the night of gore, chaos, and the failed demonic summoning…but wait! There is more!

The Night Eaters V02 Her Little Reapers. by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

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Ages ago I read The Night Eaters #1: She Eats the Night by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. The horror books of horror graphic novels. I mean, EEEEWWW OMG what was I thinking? Blood, gore, houses eating people…. Yet, Yup. I (mostly) liked it. Enough to say: I guess I’ll try volume two, The Night Eaters: Her Little Reapers. But I didn’t get to it for several years actually. So many in fact, I forgot what the ham-hocks was going on. Which is partly okay […]

This is royaly F’d up and down and sideways

V for Vendetta by Alan Morre, David Lloyd and DC Comics

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There is always a book that draws me in; wanting me to read it; teasing me; laughing at me because it knows I will never take the leap out of my comfort zone and plunge in. And V for Vendetta was one of those books. My excuses for not reading? Too long, too dark, too old school, too popular, what a dull and boring (and a little off putting) cover. My excuse for finally picking it up to read? Nothing more than there was a […]

Book 5 & 6

Spirited #5 Howl at the Moon by Liv Livingston

Spirited #6 It Came from the Deep by Liv Livingston

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Have you ever gotten hooked on a series that was a couple thousand pages each book? Well, thankfully the Spirited series might be a couple hundred for all six books but you will most likely (or your child more likely) become hooked. This easier to read graphic novel series is for the at least six and up crowd.   Spirited #5 Howl at the Moon by Liv Livingston (or LIV Livingston) is about one of the three main characters who is the werepup. Oh, yeah, […]

Is it a “hilarious satire” OR is it a middling white guy’s rant against contemporary social norms

My Inner Child Wants to Kill: A Mindful Murder Novel by Karsten Dusse

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Cbr18bingo Or My Inner Child Wants to Kill is apparently book 2 in the Mindful Murder series by German author Karsten Dusse, with the first book having been turned into a Netflix series. I did not know any of that when I picked this one up at the library and I have no interest whatsoever in delving further into any of it. In a weird way, this book reminded me of my experience with One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — white guys writing about […]

Bananas Alternate History Blending WWII and Dinosaurs

Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson

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My father-in-law recommended this book, the first in the Destroyermen series, to me. We both enjoy sci-fi and military history, so he thought this alternate-history novel, with WWII-era tech and dinosaurs, would be fun for me. What he doesn’t know is that I also enjoy the Honor Harington books, which are basically naval battles in space (based loosely on the Horatio Hornblower books). All that to say – I’m predisposed to enjoying this kind of thing. And I did! Written by a weapons historian, Into […]

A YA Contemporary Fiction and a YA Fantasy

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

She Knows All the Names by Michelle Jabes Corpora

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CBR18 BINGO: Or (for Clap When You Land – lots of choices), Middle (for She Knows All the Names – 2nd book in a trilogy) Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo This is a YA novel in verse, which makes it a fairly quick read. When a DR-bound plane departing New York goes down, it affects Yahaira and Camino, daughters of a man on the plane, but each is unaware of the other’s existence. Their father was a man with secrets, with a legal family in the U.S. and a second daughter […]



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