Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“It’s a role I play.” Max shrugged. “Just as you do.”

The Agency for Scandal (2023) by Laura Wood

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The Agency for Scandal (2023) is a children's/YA late-Victorian set romantic romp with a dash of adventure and a feminist core. Isobel Stanhope has inherited her father's talent for lock-picking but also his debts--which she must keep a secret from her delicate mamma and her younger brother, … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:3 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , , , , ·

Enslavement Narratives (and related texts) in preparation for class

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup

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" I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:244 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: , , ·

This Girl is on FIRE

Pucking Around by Emily Rath

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Kindle Unlimited REALLY wanted to make sure I didn't miss Emily Rath's Pucking Around. I'm so glad it was insistent. Pucking Around is a super spicy why choose hockey romance that is probably 150 pages too long but you don't care because you like the characters that much and the spice is finger … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: , , , ·

This should have been my tenth review of the year – not sure what happened there

The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

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This is the concluding volume in a trilogy. It won't really work for you unless you've read the previous two books. Start with A Deadly Education. Also, this review will contain spoilers for the previous book in the series, so proceed at your own risk if you're not caught up. Galadriel "El" … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

Demons and wizards and magic – oh my!

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

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4.5 stars Bree Matthews applied to an early admissions residential program at the same college that her mother attended, only to discover that her mother strongly objected to her going there. They had a blistering argument, and Bree's mother died in a car accident before they had a chance to … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

Teenagers, ammirite?

No Place Like Oz (Dorothy Must Die Prequel #1) by Danielle Paige

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This is the backstory on Dorothy after she spent her first time in Oz wanting nothing more than to return to Kansas and then spent her time back in Kansas wanting nothing more than to return to Oz. We begin with Dorothy's infamous (at least to her) 16th birthday party, and are reminded how terrible … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: , , ·


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