Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Sky gazers and the Solar Eclipse

A Few Beautiful Minutes: Experiencing a Solar Eclipse by Kate Allen Fox

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With current events coming up in a few days this April 2024, I thought it would be fun to read a book called A Few Beautiful Minutes: Experiencing a Solar Eclipse by Kate Allen Fox and illustrations by Khoa Le. The story itself is nice, but it is the illustrations that grabbed me. A lot of the time I am not a huge fan of “too cartoony” when it comes to a  story that might be more serious. Yet, they mix a realistic approach with […]

History is not only about the past.

Obaasan's Boots by Janis Bridger and Lara Jean Okihiro

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It took me months to read Obaasan’s Boots by Janis Bridger and Lara Jean Okihiro because I was reading it via an online reader copy at lunch and when I could sneak it in on my phone (which was not as often as I’d like as there was always something else to read or do when there). This long time reading probably affected the biggest issue I had which was, I was not always sure which cousin was who. Charlotte and Lou are marked by […]

From Creepy Indoor Waterparks to Paranormal Activity-Plagued Cracker Barrels

Nightmare of A Trip by Maureen Kilmer

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When the Somerset family heads out on a road trip from Wisconsin to Florida, mom Leigh expects plenty of bumps along the way – but even she doesn’t expect to be haunted by ghosts after a strange incident at an abandoned house. My family has always been big on road trips, and consequently I have spent days driving down endless roads in both the United States and India. You see plenty of road trips on television and in books, but rarely the family caravan type. […]

The Boy on the moon

Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo

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I am starting my review of Lunar Boy with: I have questions. None are about the story itself, which is, a child from the Moon is adopted by a woman from New Earth. They live on a space station until the mother, in the process of helping her New Earth friend deal with the death of his wife, falls in love, marries, and moves to New Earth. Then, Indu (the child) must deal with not just the stress of a move to a new home, […]

I… What?

Find Me by Alafair Burke

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I finished this book yesterday and I’ve forgotten what this was about already. Oh, sorry, you need more from a review?  I guess it was okay.  Really, guys, I’m not sure what else to tell you. It wasn’t terrible, it wasn’t super interesting, and it was forgettable.  Alright. Fine.  It’s about a girl named Hope. A decade or so ago, Hope was in a car crash, driving a stolen vehicle. She had no idea and woke up in the hospital with complete memory loss and […]

Definitely a formula, but an enjoyable one

Knot Guaranteed by Jillian West

Knot Wanted by Jillian West

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I find myself reading a lot of Omegaverse* lately, which lead me to stumble upon Jillian West as a recommended author from Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited program. I have finished two of her novels so far, Knot Guaranteed and Knot Wanted, and found them to be essentially the same book, but an enjoyable book. Wait. Let me explain: enjoyable if you are into why choose romance that takes place in an alternate universe. Which is not to say that it reads like fantasy or science fiction, […]



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