Cannonball Read 18

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One Sweet Song by Jyoti Rajan Gopal

American Desi by Jyoti Rajan Gopal

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CBR15Passport author   The funny thing is, “sweet” does not always do it for me (unless it is a donut or chocolate). However, once in awhile a book that is sweet gets me in the feels. That is because it is sweet but not overly, sickening sweet (like three York peppermint patties and a mug of hot chocolate). And One Sweet Song falls in the former sweet category. Rhyming text takes us through a neighborhood when one person, while sitting on a balcony, plays a […]

They lobster the kelpcakes

Officer Clawsome V01 Kelpcake Crisis!   by Brain Smitty Smith

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CBR15Passport  already own  As the description says of this Brain Smitty Smith graphic novel, Officer Clawsome: Kelpcake Crisis!  this is Dogman meets Spongebob. And if you like them, you will like this. There is a bit of “James Bond-like” elements with a few villains (there is a mechanical shark that has one heck of a bad diet…I mean eating garbage is one thing, but whole buildings?), but overall, everything is straight forward and not overly “sophisticated.” Then again, a talking lobster who is a former […]

Fascinating novel set amongst little known culture

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane follows Li-Yan, a young woman from the Akha ethnic minority in Yunnan China.  Born shortly after the cultural revolution, she comes of age as China is changing rapidly.  When she becomes pregnant at 16, like so many other women in China at this time she abandons her newborn daughter at an orphanage.  The story follows Li-Yan and her family in China as she gains an education and helps her community modernize while still retaining their values, and also follows […]

Model seed, model cities

Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan

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I chose this book after reading this review   (thanks, anana!). I have to say I agree with anana’s general perspective that this book is ambitious and mostly successful. What drew me in was the comparison to Station Eleven, which I loved. If you’re interested in literary fiction about climate change and the potential disasters it might bring to Earth as we know it, you’ll likely enjoy this novel. The structure relies on the story of a single family, told across two hundred years – from the […]

Duskwalker Brides #3

A Soul to Touch by Opal Reyne

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Mayumi is a former member of the Demonslayer Guild. She lives in her family’s cabin in the middle of nowhere so she can safely hunt demons on her own. She slowly comes to realize just how lonely she is. When she was a young child, she was saved from a demon by a Duskwalker. Duskwalkers are monsters who are typically 7 feet tall, covered in fur or feathers, and aren’t terribly intelligent unless they have eaten a lot of humans. Ever since he saved her, […]

Yes, I Read It Just Because of the Title

Take My Daddy I'll Take Yours by Jenika Snow

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Look, they can’t all be great literature. Sometimes I’m bored and scrolling Kindle Unlimited and I see a sexy cover model who I recognized from Sara Cate’s upcoming book, Highest Bidder, and the silly title intrigues you enough to read it. STOP JUDGING ME! Mina is a twenty-something girl, and that is pretty much her entire personality. Her father is getting remarried to a former classmate of hers, which she finds a little icky, but she is happy that her Dad seems to be happy. […]



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