Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Her whole family was murdered and she’s not OK

Out of the Ashes by Kara Thomas

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Samantha Newsom is leaving her shift as a nurse to help assist in the suicide of her terminally ill uncle Gil at the beginning of this story. It’s quite a tone to set immediately. The next morning, Sam gets a call that her uncle has died (duh), but nobody suspects any foul play. Hot take – you should be allowed to decide when you and how you die if you’re terminally ill. But that’s a topic for another time. Sam heads back out to Gil’s […]

What would you do if you were maybe really nearby to a murder?

Stranger in the Woods by Anni Taylor

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We meet our main character Isla as she’s photographing some rich people on a yacht. She sounds like a good photographer, but then she has a seizure and falls into the water. Her mom is scared and so is she. Isla is also looking for a little bit of adventure though. She feels trapped in Sydney and wants to branch out. She randomly finds an ad for a month-long assignment in the Scottish Highlands photographing a renowned architect and his family and estate. Once Isla […]

This Anonymous Girl made herself known

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

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I borrowed this book from a coworker a while ago. As I’ve stated previously, I have trouble with actual books. I read the most in my bed in the dark on my Kindle. Real books hurt when they hit you in the face because you fell asleep reading them. I have a feeling I might make some more time to read real books in my new house though. I’m moving in at the end of the month, and this is just one of the many […]

Sweet stuff

When I Became Your Grandma by Susannah Shane

I'll Be There by Karl Newson

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Two so sweet that some people will be hyper after reading them books are When I Became Your Grandma and I’ll Be There. Now, there is nothing wrong with sweet, even overly sweet, if that is your thing. However, these picture books are maple candy sweet. Fantastic as you slowly let them melt in your mouth, that maple goodness sliding around on your tastebuds, but you will only need one and you’re good, But of course you’ll eat (read) two (books) because they come in […]

Picture books are Fun

Indigo Dreaming by Dinah Johnson

Not Quite Narwhal and Friends: Weather Together by Jessie Sima

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  cbr15bingo Africa: Indigo dreaming has the African connection I enjoy doing picture book reviews and doing a round-up review of a few titles at once. The thing with picture books is that they are short. So, they are easy to read. And yet, they can be packed from cover to cover with amazing goodies. Just sometimes that does not lend itself to a regulation review word count. The below titles are perfect for most people, yet different enough and varied in age ranges that […]

Inspirational

Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush by Patrice Lawrence

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cbr15bingo South America: The grandmother is originally from the Trindade and Tobago area. I wrote in a review a while back that I have read several grandparents books. Some were sweet and some serious, but all were really delightful. And with Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush, Patrice Lawrence wrote a picture book that was both sweet and serious. When a young girl, Ava, needs to find a person she admires to dress up for school, she is having trouble choosing. And when she confesses […]



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