Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“But magic came, ever his friend…”

Sorceror to the Crown by Zen Cho

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Woot! First review of the year! I must have read a review of Zen Cho’s Sorcerer to the Crown on here (perhaps yesnopemaybe‘s), and so thanks for that. Zacharias Wythe, a formerly enslaved Black sorcerer has been named the Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural Philosophers, a group that regulates magic in England. His ascendancy is the source of gossip due to his race and the manner in which he claimed the title and machinations by the other sorcerers. To make his job worse, magic is […]

Book Indifferencers

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

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I’ve previously read/loved Emily Henry’s other books, Beach Reads & People We Meet on Vacation. As you’ll see in that previous review, I love Henry’s writing. And I can’t wait for the movie(s)  of her books to come out! So, believe me when I say that I’m sad that I can’t give this book more stars. Emily Henry is great (and also a fun Instagram follow, by the way). But this one didn’t work for me. Why? I don’t think the romantic co-lead is as […]

Spoiler: Children are Friends, not Food.

I’m Hungry! by Elise Gravel

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Who has not had the “I’m Hungry!” issue? You eat a piece of pizza, but you are still hungry, and you want something else to eat. So, you eat the plate, the table, the house, the school, a mountain and finally you see the child reading the book you are in, and you try and eat them.  I mean, that happens to all of us, right? Well, it might not happen to all of us, but it happens to the monster in the board book […]

Papa said Poopy!

Stinkbird Has a Superpower by Jill Esbaum

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Jill Esbaum, you had me at STINKBIRD and then Bob Shea had me with that dancing, purple chick on the cover. And then you all had me forever after reading Stinkbird Has a Superpower. This is a hilarious book about how a papa bird tells his little chick (and the reader) about how fabulous they are. Mostly because hey, they are awesome, but also because they are a species that has a lot of “only thems.” And the superpower of the title? Well, it is […]

Tennessee Williams

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams

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The Glass Menagerie “Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. To begin with, I turn bark time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them or they had failed […]

Jeanette Winterson; Joyce Carol Oates

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

American Melancholy by Joyce Carol Oates

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“It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock.” Another reread of The Passion for me, this time specifically because I had the audiobook for it, and that tends to go very quickly. One thing about the audiobook that works here especially is that they used a male reader for the Henri sections, and a woman for the Villanelle sections. What stands out most to me this time around is the way in which in […]



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