Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Weird Black Girls by Elwin Cotman

Weird Black Girls by Elwin Cotman

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I thought this was a good collection. Per usual, I rate overall and then for each story in the collection. Trigger warning: Rape I feel really bad I accidentally dropped this one in the bathtub the other day. I was reading (as one does) and then slip! And now it’s dry, but definitely a little swollen. Oh well! “The Switchin Tree”(5 stars)-I really liked this story that follows a young girl named Man whose family and community gets turned upside down in 1958. The children […]

“Women can be heroes.”

The Women by Kristin Hannah

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The Women (2024) is now the third book I’ve read by Kristin Hannah. I started with The Great Alone, which I loved. Then I moved on to The Nightingale, which I’d seen on countless ‘best of’ lists. There were some good things about The Nightingale, but on the whole, I was disappointed with it. So, it was with just a little bit of trepidation that I started The Women. Fortunately, I thought The Women was a very good book. I would put it behind The Great Alone, but significantly ahead of The Nightingale. The […]

Maybe read the synopsis before starting a new book

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco

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I bought The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco at a used book store years ago solely based on the author.  I loved Foucault’s Pendulum and The Name of the Rose when I read them in college and the title sounded fun.  Reader, it was not fun.  (I also purchased another of his novels at the same time, The Prague Cemetery, and started it just before this book.  I read one chapter, was horrified and switched to this book.  One of five books […]

Just like any mother and child, except, you know they are vampires

Noss and Zakuro Vol. 1 by Rariatto

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One day you find yourself finding a book called Noss and Zakuro Vol. 1 by Rariatto. It is just a few words on the screen but you find yourself interested. Until you are not. Then later it comes up again. But again, only a brief interest happened. This repeated itself several times before you found yourself interlibrary loan requesting it. Only to learn that your local library had it most of that time to begin with.  So you request it and a few days later […]

Who knew far….ah feelings were so expressive

Feelings Are Like Farts by Tara Wosiski and Toshiki Nakamura

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I am not going to make the puns and comments that Feelings Are Like Farts make as it will take away from your actual reading of the book. However, I will say that Christopher Willard, PsyD, Tara Wosiski, and illustrator Toshiki Nakamura probably had a blast making this book. Like a fart, feelings can sneak up on you, be loud, smelly, embarrassing, or give relief. But exploring them, realizing they are natural and finding a safe place to let them go, or finding a safe […]



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