Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A prince, an aging dragon, and a mysterious maiden should have gone out for a drink, instead they did a little battle

Three Tasks for a Dragon by Eoin Colfer 

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I like a good fairy tale, legend, mythology, or folklore story. Therefore, when I saw the cover of  Three Tasks for a Dragon I figured it would be a fun story in that line of storytelling that would be about a dragon and his redemption story. And it is somewhat that; but it is also the loss of innocence, loss of youth, the greed for power, and the magic of true love and cherries. It was the illustrations of P. J. Lynch that kept pulling […]

Just your normal ten-year-old tomboy

You Wish Volume One by Jeff Victor

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I was browsing through my online reading links and found You Wish Volume One. Only I did not realize it was volume one. It looked like a one time graphic novel story. But nope, there will be more. How many I am not sure, but since it is a series probably more than I want to get into as I hate waiting for sequels! But since this Jeff Victor series is not starting until January 2024, I will have a loooooooong while to wait for […]

Reading out of order

Mystery at the Aquarium (Volume 1) (OceanX Adventures) by Kate B. Jerome

Animal Rescue Friends: Friends Fur-Ever: Volume 2 by Gina Loveless

Animal Rescue Friends (Volume 1) by Jana Tropper

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Sometimes if you read a series out of order, you are fine, others you get lost. Thankfully these three titles, when read out of order, were not too difficult to follow for me as an adult. And in fact, even kid readers wouldn’t be too put off by out of order reading.  However, I do recommend reading in the order the author meant for you to read them. Yet, had I read Mystery at the Aquarium (Volume 1) (OceanX Adventures) by Kate B. Jerome before […]

Stuck or unstuck in time

Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: The Graphic Novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr and Ryan North

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WTH did I read? I admit, a lot of the graphic novel Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children’s Crusade, went over my head. But that just means I need to read it again as this is not something  that can be taken in all at once. The artwork is what really grabbed me this first reading. There was a lot going on, but it did not always feel “fleshed out” and there were things missing, yet, there was also too much going on as well. The lack […]

So tell me, little sister: What are you prepared to do, for what you want?

He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

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When I posted my review of She Who Became the Sun a couple of people mentioned they were afraid to read He Who Drowned the World. Friends, you are right to be afraid. As Shelley Parker-Chan tweeted recently, “emotional books that feel like a gut punch”—hey, that’s my brand!” Because we know that this series is a retelling of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, we know that our protagonist, Zhu Yuanzhang, will defeat her enemies by the end of the book, and that her […]

Layered lives

Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

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I first heard of this book while reading Slate online. The article was framed as a newly discovered interview with C.M. Lucca from 2005, and so I clicked because I do love reading author interviews  – not to mention, I wondered by such an interview from 2005 would be relevant today. Do I need to say that I was taken by the premise of the article – that the subject herself existed, that she was indeed an accidental biographer of her late wife, known as […]



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