Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


a manor on the edge of ruin, a mute little girl, a butler with a dangerous past, and a potentially magical drunken dandy…

The Maker of Swans by Paraic O'Donnell

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What looks like a recipe for potential nonsense is actually a truly surprising and unique thriller! Paraic O'Donnell follows up the Victorian spiritualism of The House on Vesper Sands with another historical mystery, but where I was expecting (and hoping for, honestly) a continuation of the … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

“Mingle! Guide! Delight!” isn’t a bad philosophy

Leave it to Plum by Matt Phelan

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Leave it to Plumby Matt Phelan is the story of a "peppy purple peacock" & his trials & tribulations at the Athensville Zoo. Plum is a legacy - the however many times great grandson of the original zoo peacocks, given free wandering rights at the zoo, who are responsible for mingling, guiding … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , ·

Good job, Past Me

Hideaway by Nora Roberts

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Nora Roberts is one of my go-to authors - if I'm looking for a book that is just dependable for an entertaining read, I know she's not going to let me down. She used to be a 'read immediately upon publication' author, but I find that if I save her new-to-me-books for days when I just can't get into … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Romance, Suspense · Tags: , , , , , ·

“True, I played, fought and studied with other children, but always I stood apart within… A cosmic loneliness was my shadow.”

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd

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When Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston was published in 2002 it was the first comprehensive biographical work on Zora Neale Hurston in more than twenty-five years, and while there were books that followed quickly behind it, Wrapped in Rainbows feels like the definitive work on its … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:38 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: , , , , , ·

“He had light enough to make heroes of them all.”

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

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I knew how this was going to end - of course I did - and yet I went willingly with Patroclus and Achilles towards their doom and my ugly crying. I may have mentioned in earlier reviews that I have trouble slowing down and savoring books, but I was in luck with this gorgeous book because my child and … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , ·

When can I preorder book 3???

Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

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Between Earth and Sky, Book #2 I read Black Sun, the first book in the planned Between Earth and Sky trilogy last summer, on vacation. I inhaled that book, and it ended up being one of my best of 2021. So I got myself right on the holds list for Book #2. Of course, I neglected to go back and … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:37 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: ·


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