Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

An Interesting Addition to Vampire Canon

This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings

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This was a highly anticipated release between the premise and the setting, but after finishing it I’m sitting here unsure how I feel about it. Layla Quinn and Elise Saint were best friends until several years ago with Layla’s parents were killed and she was turned into a reaper. She especially blames the Saints and most especially Elise, because Elise betrayed her trust by telling her father, Tobias Saint, about Layla’s parents’ plan to help the reapers and meet with the Harlem clan. Because of […]

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Husband Material by Alexis Hall

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CBR16 Bingo: Rings (a whole bunch of rings being exchanged in this book) In Boyfriend Material, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to date for a number of reasons, pretended to be in love, fell in love, broke up, and then decided to actually date for real. By the time this book starts, they have been together for a good while (I want to say at least a year?) and as is often the case at a certain age of your life, they keep being invited […]

Life in Ruins

Ruins by Peter Kuper

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Ruins by Peter Kuper is the kind of book that can’t really be rated. There are parts that were a five, parts that were a one, and parts a nice solid three. And even each page really could be given its own rating. The main part that I based my score on is the cleverness of the story. We follow a monarch butterfly as its journey parallels the human couple for their year in Mexico. Some things are left up to the imagination in places […]

A “ragtag band of space gays”

Cosmoknights, Volume 1 by Hannah Templer

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I have been poking around reading Cosmoknights, Volume 1 for ages now. I have had and lost multiple online copies. I thought about ordering a copy, decided against it and then one day I found another online edition. I waited and waited to read until one day I was cleaning up the links I had and found it again. Okay, okay. I get it! The book is from 2019 and still I have an active link? Guess I better read it! With Hannah Templer’s graphic […]

Walk on the Wild side with magic

Amulet Volume 9: Waverider by Kazu Kibuishi

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The Amulet Series by Kazu Kibuishi was a big hit when it first appeared on the shelves of my bookstore, and I understood why, even though at the time I was just starting to get into graphic novels and fantasy was something I was reading again. It had a lot of pop and mystery. Things were fantasy, but had elements that were relatable, they even could be considered believable even though things were fantasy all the way. And the main character was also spunky and […]

What do Kafka, a doll and a bunch of dinosaurs on picture day have in common? Nothing, except all are from the publisher NorthSouth

Wish You Were Here: Postcards from Franz Kafka by Bernadette Watts

Picture Day at Dino Play by Sean Julian

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One day I was sitting at my desk, trying to remember what the next thing on my To-Do list was, as I had misplaced it (I’m thinking of adding “Find Last To-Do list you lost” to the new To-Do list), when I got an email from the wonderful contact I have from NorthSouth books. They were asking me to take a quick survey about their books/operations and as a thank you, I could have a book sent to me. Well, yes, I’m all about free […]



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