Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Coming-of-age heist story that will steal your heart

Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

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Warrior Girl Unearthed is Angeline Boulley’s follow-up to her award-winning debut, Firekeeper’s Daughter, which I loved; I was really excited to return to this world. We go back to the Ojibwe community of Sugar Island and meet our protagonist Perry, 16-year-old niece of Daunis, the primary character in FD. Set ten years after the first novel, Perry’s plans for a relaxing summer are disrupted when she wrecks her car and is forced into a summer internship to repay her Aunt Daunis for covering the cost […]

“Buying up the bargains in the ol’ marketplace”

In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

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This is the fourth book in the Wayward Children series. It follows the exploits of children who have gone through doorways into other worlds and then come back. In this book we learn the origin story of Lundy, who was a teacher at Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children, which houses these strange youths. Lundy was an interesting character who we don’t get enough of in the first book. Eight year old Catherine Lundy has made her peace with the fact that she doesn’t fit […]

I have to disagree with Stephen King on this one

Sundial by Catriona Ward

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We all have roots – and good, bad, or something in the middle, there’s always something to learn from them. Whether it’s understanding why you are the way you are, or recognizing that history is repeating itself and trying to stop that, or even trying to glean new information that might help you moving forward, it all comes back to where you began. And for Rob, that’s Sundial. Rob grew up with her sister on Sundial, a ranch where their father and his wife hosted […]

Excuse me, this wasn’t EVERYTHING. I’ll need a sequel posthaste.

Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena by Philomena Cunk

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Man, listening to audiobooks at 3x speed is nice and all, but when Spotify only allots you a set number of hours per month, and you buy extra hours in increments of 10, you chew through those hours at light speed. In the span of just one day, now, I’ve had to refill my audiobook time on Spotify twice since I was making hours of headway in a third the time. Time flies when you’re having fun… and when things are 3 times as fast! […]

The meter of the poem fired his blood until he was a molten core. The hammer’s song was a charm for living, a way to keep singing himself into existence.

The Winter Knight by Jes Battis

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The word eôel meant home turf. People trust home. Through years of investigation, her grandmother had learned that what people told you depended on where you talked to them. Lies for every space, but occasionally a truth snuck its way in.” ― Jes Battis, The Winter Knight When she had interviewed him, she’d traced a discreet rune on his phone case. It was sketchy magic, but it should have given her access to the phone’s GPS. The problem was that it wasn’t working. His location […]

POV: When you pay for more audiobook time on Spotify because you can’t wait to finish the book

Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

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T.J. Klune has been on my to-read list for some time, ever since seeing one of the B&N special editions of his books with the sprayed edges, but I’d been missing him for quite a while for some unknown reason. When I saw this one pop up in the available audiobooks on Spotify, though, I thought no better time than the present and dove right in. Right out the gate, it seemed like exactly what I was in the mood for, but a google search […]



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