Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Perfect Halloween Read

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

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I am part of a YA for everyone book group at my local library. The organizer tries to pick books that fit the time of year, so for October, Halloween, we are reading Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas. I had no idea what this book was about, which is sometimes a great way to be pleasantly surprised.  … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Book Club, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , , , , ·

“Some people are made to be lonely.”

Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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I love how reading books can transport you to anywhere - and I love learning about different points in history through a really great novel. I knew almost nothing about the government in Mexico in the 1970s - and I wouldn't say I am not "educated" about it, but I did fall into some interesting … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:97 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

“That’s the last time I ever saw her:” Judy Garland in Decline

The Other Side of the Rainbow: With Judy Garland on the Dawn Patrol by Mel Tormé

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CBR14Bingo: Cold (the wintery chill of the sight of a full staff of people leaving a woman to slowly kill herself) While it was interesting reading about the behind the scenes of the ill-fated Judy Garland Show, this is a very sad book and it's a grim look into the waste that can occur on the … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:93 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: , , , , , , ·

What If?

What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

One Punch, Vol. 2 by One

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt

Trick 'r Treat: Days of the Dead by Michael Dougherty

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Well, I finally got my answer, vis-à-vis the autism assessment. I won't get the definitive answer until Friday when I have the follow-up appointment, as the guy who did my assessment has to first confer with everybody else, but he assured me that he was for sure on it and doesn't see anybody else … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:122 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ·

“Me! But nobody likes me best!”

A Vicarage Family by Noel Streatfeid

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CBR14Bingo: Holiday (lots of holidays in this book) Another clearly beloved British children's classic that I missed as a kid. A Vicarage Family is about (shockingly) a vicar's family. More specifically it follows Vicky, the stand-in for Streatfeild, as she grows up during the Edwardian era. … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:92 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: , , , , , ·

“I, Penelope Taberner Cameron, tell this story of happenings when I was a young girl.”

A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley

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CBRBingo14: Time (time traveling) I think this is one of those books that is a children's classic in England but didn't become as famous in the US, or else I just missed it as a kid. I picked it up on vacation in England recently along with two other children's time travel novels, which seems to … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:91 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: , , , , , , , ·


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