Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

You’ve Got DMs

Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

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Someone, who I am too lazy to go back and give credit to- sorry, wrote a review about Alex, Approximately and compared it to You Got Mail which instantly attracted my Meg Ryan/ Tom Hanks loving self. This is an adorable YA that is too quirky to be real life but not quite as ridiculous as some of the other books I’ve read recently from the same genre. Bailey has been chatting with a boy, who goes by Alex online, in a film lovers forum. “Alex” keeps asking Bailey to visit her father in California where he lives coincidentally in Alex’s hometown, so they […]

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6/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:68 |

“Stories are the wildest thing of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

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Pretty much every night, Conor wakes up screaming from the same nightmare. So when the monster shows up in his garden, just after midnight, he’s not as scared as you may have thought that he’d be. After all, he deals with some pretty unpleasant things on a daily basis. The bullies who pick on him in school. The fact that he seems to be falling out with his only friend. The teachers either ignoring him or being overly understanding and solicitous. His father, who seems to have forgotten about him and his mother after he moved to America and got […]

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6/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:57 |

it would have been better for him if he’d died. . . .

Jon For Short by Malorie Blackman

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This title is only 80 pages long and can easily be read cover to cover in one sitting. It is aimed at older teens and is a psychological thrill ride wound up in a short story. It is part of a collection of Dyslexia friendly titles produced by Barrington stoke. ( https://www.barringtonstoke.co.uk/ ) What makes a book dyslexia friendly you ask? Well, the typeface, the layout and the colour of the paper stock all make it much much much easier for someone with dyslexia to read. Jon for short is the story of a 14 year old boy recounting a grizzly […]

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6/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:22 |

The girl in the bubble and the boy in black

Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon

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3.5 stars Madeleine has never left her house or been outside. She’s got a rare auto-immune disorder and lives in a house hermetically sealed, with special filters making sure nothing gets in that could hurt her. The only people she sees regularly are her mother, whose a doctor, and her nurse, Carla. On very special occasions, when he’s been decontaminated thoroughly, she’s allowed to meet one of her favourite tutors, but Madeline’s life is lived mostly vicariously through books and the internet, dreaming of the outside world. Everything changes when Oliver, or “Olly” and his family move in next door. […]

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6/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:54 |

How would blemmyae react to cussing?

The Trials of Apollo: The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan

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I’m not sure what to make of the Trials of Apollo series. I’ve really liked Rick Riordan’s other series Percy Jackson and Magnus Chase, and while there are plenty of shared features and characters, this series just doesn’t have quite the same fun factor. The Blemmyae are probably the best villain assistants since the Minions, made especially entertaining by the fact that Riordan presents them as stereotypes of Midwestern nice/Stepford wives. Since I’m originally from Minnesota, I find it funnier than maybe I should the image of shapeshifting monsters obsessed with politeness and who call you ‘dearie’ while insisting that […]

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6/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:43 |

I liked this better two months ago.

Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2) by Sarah J. Maas

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This book has definitely soured on me since I finished it in May, which is a shame since I am quite literally about to start the third book tonight. This series for me has turned out so far to be a shoddily written, cliché-packed, predictable behemoth with an uninteresting not-as-smart-or-talented-as-she-or-the-author-thinks-she-is protagonist. It’s very much a yo-yo book for me. One minute I’ll be rolling my eyes so hard I’m about to sprain my optical nerve, the next Maas writes something genuinely interesting. Also, both books of hers I’ve read now fall into the same traps. They start out pretty dull, […]

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6/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:44 |

This was, without a doubt, the right book at the right time. I loved it. Also, Cary Elwes.

My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

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Coming off of a few books with heavier themes, I decided to look for something fun and easy to read at the pool. Scanning through my kindle purchase (seriously, there are SO MANY), I came across this one, and remembered that my fellow cannonballers thought somewhat highly of it. Now, look. I’m no historian. But I’m pretty sure this version of the events between the death of King Henry and the coronation of Bloody Mary aren’t historically accurate. I know a little about King Edward and Jane Grey. After watching season one of The Crown, I started reading some British […]

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6/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:42 |

If you like the title, you’ll like the book?

The People of Forever are not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu

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*sits speechless for a while* *squints* I liked it?? I’m just going to describe what this novel is about. (Yes this is a book review that lacks words for my opinion about the book. I did a beautiful interpretive dance that conveyed my sentiments exactly, but, alas, it cannot be transcribed to the page.) The novel follows three childhood friends as they venture from the safe life of their village into the army. We meet Amishag, Yael and Lea at school when they are teenage girls, giggling over boys, trying to get cell phone reception and organize parties. Still we […]

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6/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:15 |

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