Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Red for Murder

When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

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When She Woke, by Hillary Jordan, is a work of speculative fiction, that I imagine feels far less speculative today than when it was published in 2011. The author doesn’t specify the year of our Lord in which this novel takes place, but it’s definitely in the future. Los Angeles has been nuked to filth. There are water wars in Northern Africa. There are “National Identity Cards” which allow the government to monitor and track citizenry. And there was a “superclap” pandemic which did nothing […]

Bzzing read

Little Bee and the Bloom by Carly Kremer and Katie Hunt

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Little Bee and the Bloom by Carly Kremer and Katie Hunt is a fun, sweet rhyming way to learn about bees and flowers. It has cute illustrations that make it a bouncy, bright, colorful and energetic read. No, I was not blown away, but I enjoyed it. The thing I liked is that it is a good way to introduce the concept to the older toddler and preschooler aged child. And you could even read it to a kindergartner or they could read it with […]

The Boogie Man is real

The Whisper Man by Alex North

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TRIGGER WARNING FOR BOOK. Review is safe.  and my FREE BINGO becuase I thought it would be funny to have all the circles filled and I really couldn’t make up my mind which one I wanted to use for Or (‘cause really you can’t trust anyone OR can you?)   Like the last few years, my New Year’s Resolutions this year were to read more books and different books than usual. However, the second one proved tricky. I’d start something out of my wheelhouse and […]

Mom? Have You Written Your Book Yet?

The Long Song by Andrea Levy

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bcr18bingo Justice Having just read a novel set in 18th century Haiti, it was curious to see the differences between Island Beneath the Sea, Isabel Allende, and this one.  Set in Jamaica instead, the settlers and plantation owners are British rather than French, a far more homogeneous upper class, and this tale is also on a much smaller scale.  Not to mention that it is in some ways a more light-hearted tale, albeit not without the occasional brutal scenes that are part of any portrayal […]

I can feel it coming in the air tonight

A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman

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Bingo Square: Joker (Carl is chaos personified) Quote: “That’s the problem with hitting the elites financially. Every time you hurt one, all it does is make another richer. That won’t stop until the baskets overflow with their godsdamned heads.” Throughout the series, the beginnings of the new novels and floors have tended to act as resets and completely shift the tone. Book 3 went from everyone working together at the end of the Iron Tangle to being separated for the Bubbles; Book 5 to Book […]

Event planning, succession and second chances at love

I Think They Love You by Julian Winters

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Bingo Square: Success (Denz has to figure out what success is for him) This was a cute second chance romance with fake dating that I mostly enjoyed. It’s third person limited, told entirely from Denz’s perspective, and as much as I liked Denz, I think being entirely in his head for the length of the entire novel made it feel a little longer than it was. I don’t necessarily have a preference between dual POV or single POV when it comes to romance but I […]



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