Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I was probably the target audience for this book when it was written, 25 years ago. But I still love it today.

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

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“Your words are kindling, twigs covered in wax, soaked in lamp oil, sticky with tar. Your breath is a match, scratching along sandpaper… Whisper break the silence, one word, then two…with every word spoken a loud victory. The words burst into flames, the silence, broken.” This imagery from the novel’s foreward was so powerful and poetic, and the story hadn’t even started yet! But what a great story it is, and beautifully told – even though one doesn’t think of freshman year of high school […]

Motivational & Inspirational, but fun

Worry Lines: You're Doing Really Well Given the Circumstances by Worry Lines

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Humor and seriousness mixed together create a “mindfulness” read without being pretentious or preachy in Worry Lines: You’re Doing Really Well Given the Circumstances by Worry Lines. There is cake, potatoes, advice, and affirmations, so a little something for everyone, broken down into sections to help you have a little organizing. Fast pace, but take your time, as it is the journey here and the end results. Due in May 2024 this laugh out loud, little too close to home, and even a bit helpful, […]

Not a lively group of students

Spirited Volume one: Day of the Living Liv by Liv Livingston

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Liv Livingston tells her story in Spirited Volume one: Day of the Living Liv. Okay, I am not sure who the author actually is, maybe she has a ghostwriter? After all, Liv is starting a new school and her classmates are kinda a dead bunch to be around. No really, a lot of them are ghosts and boy do they have questions about Liv and being alive! (Yes, we need umbrellas when it rains.) This is a cute story about being yourself and that is […]

Well, at least I didn’t ugly cry this time…..

Viewfinder by Christine D. U. Chung

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All the points I have for this book, Viewfinder by Christine D. U. Chung and Salwa Majoka are for the illustrations. The wordless story is sometimes a smidgen hard to “get the exact story” (as each person will add their own twist), but overall it is a sad, yet hopefully, even beautiful story of how one Earth-like world (or Earth itself) has drastically changed. Due to the lack of text, I am not sure what the mushroom’s were made of (natural, due to the destruction, […]

Took images from the web, but the review is mine

Verse Book 1: The Broken Half by Sam Beck

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If you are looking for a typical fantasy novel with fantasy adventure and situations, Verse Book 1: The Broken Half by Sam Beck is the graphic novel series you are looking for. However, there is some violence, but mostly it is there to move the story along, to show such things as characters’ personalities and such, and not for shock. Still it is for mature audiences/older readers. There are lovely illustrations that are busy, and can be physically dark in colors and shadows. Of course, […]

Be Yourself, everyone else is taken

Sinclair, The Velociraptor Who Thought He Was a Chicken by Douglas Rees

Millie Fleur's Poison Garden. by Christy Mandin

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I cannot wait for July 2024 and these two books to officially come out. Both titles were read as online reader copies, and Douglas Rees and Christy Mandin have written two of my favorite reads (so far) of 2024. Rees has Sinclair, The Velociraptor Who Thought He Was a Chicken. Edna, the very first chicken, is hatching her very first eggs! And when her chicks are hatched, all the gals are lovely chickens. But there is one egg left, and when it hatches (even though […]



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