Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Rated C for Cute

Kitty Sweet Tooth Makes a Movie by Abby Denson

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A while back I read the first book in the Kitty Sweet Tooth series, called Kitty Sweet Tooth (appropriate I feel). The story was simple, a cat named Kitty Sweet Tooth helps run Pop-Pops movie theater. There are a few adventures, she makes lots of new friends and the movie theater takes on a new life. Then, it ended, letting us know a sequel was coming. I figured I would read it before it came out, but there was nothing for reader copies (online like […]

Prunella: A very nice skeleton, ah, girl, ah skeleton …. individual

 Prunella and the Cursed Skull Ring by Matthew Loux

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I have wanted to read Prunella and the Cursed Skull Ring by Matthew Loux for a while now. I had access to an online reading copy, but it “time out” on me. Then recently, it mysteriously returned. The planets had fallen into place and it was finally the right moment to read what would be an interesting story of who really is the monster and who is not, while in the meantime, adventures await. The surface story is simple, and for the ages (strong reader, but can […]

And it stuns me silent, for a moment: just how vast the gap is between who I am and how people see me.

Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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CBR15 BINGO: (Hold Steady Square: The main character here desperately tries to hold steady. She is terrible at it.) This is a little like Daisy Jones and the Six but with tennis, and I’m not mad about it. Not trying to diminish Jenkins Reid’s writing here at all. She has a lane and she is staying in it: complex female characters who are unapologetically who they are. Can they learn from their mistakes? Sure. Can they open up a little and let people in? They can. What they […]

Breezy, Fun Romance With a Side of Book Nerdery

The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest

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I was looking for something breezy, romantic, and fun with a guaranteed happy ending. The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest delivered on all fronts! The book opens on shy, stuck-in-a-dead-end-job junior nonfiction editor Lily sweating in a subway car, a couple moments aways from literally passing out from heat and exhaustion. In her near-delirium, Lily shoots a fan email off to her favorite fantasy author, a recluse who wrote one little-known book years before, and who has only recently created a website with a contact […]

The Castle of Llyr

The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander

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The Castle of Llyr, in addition to having the most Welsh name in the Prydain Chronicles, introduces one of the best characters in the book series: the gigantic mountain cat, Llyan. You can always tell when an author loves cats and is writing from their own experience, including terrible, willful behavior peppered with affection that is almost lethal. Diana Wynn Jones is another classic author for this sort of thing. The story begins at Caer Dallben, when the Princess Eilonwy gets the worst news imaginable: […]

“Traps upon traps. And riddles upon riddles”

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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3.5 stars Official book description: Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why — or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man’s touch — and his love of puzzles, riddles, and […]



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