Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


An Absolute Delight

SideQuested Book 1 by K. B. Spangler

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Charlie Woodgrain isn’t interested in magic and is far more interested in her training to be a librarian. It'll be a quiet life, but that's fine with Charlie.  Magic is summoned through conflict, and she would like to avoid that to the point where she refuses to fight. Then her birth father shows … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:11 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: , ·

A Great Graphic Novel for Fans of Cozy Fantasy

Forgive-Me-Not by Mari Costa

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Princess Aisling is excited for her eighteenth birthday.  She’s not expecting to be attacked in her own bedroom and kidnapped or to find out that she’s a changling.  Forget-Me-Not, the princess she was switched at birth with, has a plan that she needs Aisling in order to complete.  As the two of … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: , ·

Space Archeology and a Mystery

The Ship Who Searched by Anne McCaffrey & Mercedes Lackey

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Tia Cade enjoys her life moving from dig site to dig site and planet to planet with her archeologist parents.  Precocious and inquisitive, she doesn’t mind that her best friend is a brainship or that she doesn’t get to spend time with other children her age.  However, when an unknown space disease … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:9 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: , , ·

Spaceship Coming of Age

PartnerShip by Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball

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Newly commissioned brainship, Nancia is excited for her first mission.  However, her first group of passengers, all High Family scions like herself, don’t seem to realize that she’s brainship, and when Nancia doesn’t inform them of the fact, she overhears a number of things that trouble her.  Five … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:8 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: , , ·

Ambivalence

The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey

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Born with severe physical birth defects, nothing is wrong with Helva’s mind.  So as an infant she’s implanted in a shell, destined to one day be the mind that runs a spaceship.  Fascinated with music, Helva earns the moniker “the ship who sang”.  Setting off with her human partner (called a brawn), … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:7 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: ·

Where Do the Rights of the Mother and the Rights of the Child Diverge?

Like, Follow, Subscribe: Influencer Kids and the Cost of A Childhood Online by Fortesa Latifi

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Rating: 3.5 Stars In a nutshell: What is the cost - and what (if any) are the benefits - of sharing one’s children online? Best for: Those interested in the impact of sharing the lives of children on social media. Quote that made me think: “There is no child advocate, only the … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:16 · Genres: Audiobooks, Non-Fiction · Tags: , ·


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