Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


How Did This Get Published? WHY Did This Get Published?

Technically, You Started It by Lana Wood Johnson

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Y’all, I think I’m about to leave my first hate review. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say a bewildered review, because I cannot fathom how anyone gave this book the green light to get published. I thought I was starting another cute YA romance, but nope. Here’s the description of the book on Amazon: When a guy named Martin Nathaniel Munroe II texts you, it should be obvious who you’re talking to. Except there’s two of them (it’s a long story), and Haley thinks […]

Unfortunately this Imaginary Friend just wouldn’t go away

Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky

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Christopher and his single-mother are starting over in a town. Christopher must savE the worlD. He’ll need all thE helP he Can geT. FrOm hiS friendS. From his moM. And from his new imaginarY frienD. The Nice Man. Over 900 pages of this book were written like that: short, declarative sentences; fragments; strange, unnecessary capitalization; breaks in the sentence and paragraph. It’s all very Chbosky. At first, the style choices work. The breaks and short sentences create a tone and a mood that leave the […]

The Flowers are just Weeds

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Two different podcasts I listened to talked about this book and the two made-for-TV movies based on it.  I’d never read it. I do like to read books that are generally considered “terrible” or “so bad it’s good” and I know so many people who like (if not love) this series. People? Can I ask you? Why? I was reading the ebook and I made it to 49% of the way through and had to stop. I was bored and irritated. I didn’t care about […]



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