Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I like to Move it with this book

Sora Searches for a Song: Little Cricket’s Imagination Journey (Dance-It-Out! Creative Movement Stories) by A Dance, Once Upon

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I have not yet listened to the audio version of Sora Searches for a Song: Little Cricket’s Imagination Journey (Dance-It-Out! Creative Movement Stories) but I am hoping soon. In the meantime, I was able to find an online reader copy. We follow Ballerina Konora as she shows us how to do dance moves. Or how to dance-out the story itself. You can read the story first, so you know the basics, but to the side Konora is stretching, turning, jumping, moving along. Christine Herbert and […]

Hello Darkness, My Old Friend

Dead Man Dancing by John Galligan

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Two years ago, I spent a weekend up near Spring Green, Wisconsin, and discovered Arcadia Books.   It was there that I bought my first Bad Axe County mystery featuring Sheriff Heidi Kick.  It was one of the best books I read that summer, and when I wrote this review, I was eager to track down Books 2 and 3.  However, for some reason, I didn’t. However, two weeks ago, I found myself back up in the area (meeting with the same friends for a long weekend) […]

Oh, the foreboding!

The Marriage Portrait: A Novel by Maggie O’Farrell

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Maggie O’Farrell’s last two novels have been works of historical fiction that deal with heavy topics. In Hamnet, it was the death of William Shakespeare’s young son from the plague, and in The Marriage Portrait it is the death of the 15-year-old Duchess of Ferrara, Lucrezia de’Medici, thought to have been murdered by her own husband. O’Farrell is a master of foreboding, keeping the reader on the edge of their seat while waiting for the horrid event to occur. And yet, despite the fact that […]

“Better to be feared than desired.”

Stone Heart by Katee Robert

Radiant Sin by Katee Robert

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Stone Heart – 3 stars Medusa, an assassin working for Athena, is sent to kill Calypso, the inconvenient mistress of a high-profile politician. But Calypso, beautiful and cunning, will do anything to save her life – including seducing Medusa. This book serves as a prequel of sorts to the series, introducing the reader to the world of Olympus and the machinations of the Thirteen. I enjoyed the new perspective that we got on living in the city – unlike in the main books of the […]

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Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

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Sally Milz (sidenote: what an annoying authorial choice, just make it Mills), 36, is living out her dream as a staff writer on The Night Owls, a late night comedy institution that just so happens to air on Saturdays at 11:30pm, feature a celebrity host and a musical guest, and is run by a legendary figure who is good friends with all the big-name ’70s rockstars. Any resemblance to real people or television shows is purely coincidental, I’m sure. Sally is used to the crazy […]

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Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

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I rarely read the afterward in an author’s book. Usually it’s because I’m too excited to get started on the next book to really care. But I enjoyed Pineapple Street so much, I raced to the afterward because I wanted to see what inspired her to write the book. Reading it amused me because I think the book she produced was one her brain wrote as opposed to the one her heart thought she was writing. And that’s perfectly fine. According to Jackson, she was inspired by […]



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