Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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“Just when you think you’ve seen the worst human beings have to offer, you find out you’re wrong.”

Holly (Holly Gibney, #3) by Stephen King

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This was bit of a messy book that I ultimately enjoyed very much. King takes a lot of smaller pieces (racism, homophobia, cannibalism, the fear of aging, COVID, poetry and writing and the meaning of art) and smushes them together in this little book following Holly Gibney, a character some people love and some people (inexplicably) hate. I happen to love her. I thought this was a great showcase for Holly, even if it wasn’t perfect, and there were small moments I might have tweaked […]

Massssss Update #1!! Here are some books I read in the past few months that I didn’t love.

Castaways by Brian Keene

All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth

What You Did by Claire McGowan

Losing My Best Friend by Jeannie Wycherley

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OK so the last time I posted a review was back in May.  It’s been a bit of a weird time since April.  I lost my pup of 10 years (he was 15), and I’ve been mourning him for a little bit.  He was my buddy for so long, and it took me / is still taking me some time to figure out life without him.  The first few weeks were weird because I was still worried about him.  Now I just miss him.  Here’s […]

Please don’t go, I’ll eat you up, I love you so*

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One day, I woke up to an email saying that I was invited to join the street team for Bones & All, and that an ARC and “swag bag” were already on the way. Since books are one of my favorite things ever, I was pretty stoked. I was slightly disappointed that the “swag bag” was just a tote with the book’s cover on it, but it’s cool enough (Though mine is covered in cat hair because my big orange cat decided that the tote […]



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