Cannonball Read 13

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Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson

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Who doesn’t love a good boarding school novel? As a fan of both traditional mysteries and boarding school settings, the Truly Devious trilogy (Truly Devious, The Vanishing Stair, and The Hand on the Wall) seemed very nicely targeted toward me as a reader. I’m generally not a big YA reader, but the fit was too good in this case. And as a bonus, the trilogy is complete, so no pesky waiting between books! Book 1 (Truly Devious) begins with Stephanie “Stevie” Bell arriving at the […]

“We were salt and sand and sea and storm”

Namesake by Adrienne Young

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I’m still loving this YA pirate girl trend, so of course I was excited to get back to Fable’s world. Also, I adore how the covers form Fable’s face! This is the second in the duology, and can’t be read as a standalone, so this review will contain spoilers for the first book. “We were salt and sand and sea and storm. We were made in the Narrows.” At the end of the last book, things were finally looking up for Fable – and then […]

Light Fluff is Good Sometimes

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Vol. 5 by Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

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So certain times of year coincide with heavier professional workloads, and when that happens, I tend to gravitate towards much lighter reading, things like My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (volume 5). This is a light novel series that has been turned into both a manga and an anime. The premise is that a high school girl obsessed with a certain kind of video game dies, and is reincarnated as the antagonist of her favorite dating video game. A bump […]

Beauty & Cruelty

The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

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After the herculean doorstop that was Brandon Sanderson’s Way of Kings, I needed a fast, fun, and gripping read. So I turned to Holly Black, whose Folk of the Air trilogy I gobbled up in about 72 hours over Thanksgiving break. The Darkest Part of the Forest did not disappoint, and I blew through it in a day. Written a few years before Folk of the Air, it was fun to see how Black was playing around with the themes and premises that she later expanded […]

Ponyboy is Still Gold

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

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I first read this book when I was a teen and remember liking it. At the time I probably liked the movie more because it starred many of the teen-crush pack. I also remember being particularly struck that S.E. Hinton had to use her initials to publish so that people would not know she was a woman and discount her work. I came across this book again in a box of books I have been saving for my kids for when they became a bit […]



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