Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Dark But Also Sweet

Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

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Rating: 4 Stars In a nutshell: Gilda is anxious. Or maybe depressed? Or perhaps having a heart attack? She’s definitely unemployed and needs a job. So why not a Catholic church receptionist? Perfect for a gay atheist. Best for: Those who liked books like “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine” Quote that made me think: “I am smiling despite it. I am presenting as happy because people prefer that.” “I find it so bizarre that I occupy space, and that I am seen by other people.” […]

Destroyed Me

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Rating: 5 Stars SLIGHT SPOILERS BELOW – If you don’t want to read on, just know that it’s a really freaking good book. In a nutshell: Joan is an astronaut in the US in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The book tells the story of hos she becomes an astronaut, what that means for her, and the relationships she builds, set against the backdrop of an emergency on board the space shuttle in late 1984. Best for: Those who enjoy books that feature romance […]

Rabbits Rabbits and more Rabbits

Bunny in the Middle by Linda Olafsdottir

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Bunny in the Middle by Linda Olafsdottir is my cbr18bingo Bingo Middle square. First, there is Middle in the title. Second, the bunny in question is introduced when they show up in the middle of the floor/room. Third, we find ourselves in the middle of an adventure; well multiple ones as our main character finds herself exploring different books.Finally, it is due in the middle of February 2027  Therefore, take your pick which Bingo Middle works for you. And now that you are almost in […]

Please, DON’T send in the clown

Hamlet is Not OK by R.A. Spratt

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As a teen (at least 13 and up), Hamlet is Not OK by R.A. Spratt and I would have been friends. This is because I, too, would have had some of the naive ideas about violence and mental health our main character has. Now, I still am not keen on violence as the solution and I understand the difficulties of mental health, but if you change Hamlet (and SPOILER, they do) you have changed practically everything that has come after that was inspired by it, […]

Lots of cat pictures and cat things

Cat by Leila Jarbouai, Hannah Shaw, Phaidon

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This one I picked up for the cover. Cartoon style black cat curled up, title simply “Cat”. It’s an art book, over 200 pages of cats in painting, photograph, wood cut, and objects over time. Each page has an image and the museum description (although not always where the original currently lives). There’s almost a little bit of everything, from graffiti, to an Hermes scarf, to a Garfield strip (had to wait a while for that one) to Nyan-cat to Warhol and Doré to da […]

Round up at the O-K-bookstore

It Started with a Book Ban by Linda Ravin Lodding 

Tic-errific Me: A book about Tourette syndrome (Disability Books for Kids) by Alicia Meyers and Cait Brennan

The Kimchi Fridge by Tina Cho and Cindy Kang

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Round up time for my beloved picture books. All titles were read via an online reader copy.   BOOK ONE It Started with a Book Ban by Linda Ravin Lodding A fun and silly way to talk about the seriousness of the idea of Book Banning. And while I don’t promote banning things, I must admit sometimes the color green is annoying to me, too. (And pink, pink can be too cheerful).  Obviously Lodding uses humor to get the message across and goes into extreme […]



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