Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


My body of work

Pond by Jim LaMarche

Dwayne Johnson by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

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cbr14bingo Bodies Level One Body has several meanings. However, it usually means a physical breathing thing, or once was breathing., yet it can me an authors “body of work” or the body of your car. Or several other things. I am focusing on two types of body. A body of water and a human body. When a group of friends find a neglected pond in their favorite play area, the pass and present come together because of a body of water. Jim LaMarche’s Pond is […]

When Good is Evil and Evil even worse

The Subtle Knife The Graphic Novel by Philip Pullman

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cbr14bingo Snake  Level two Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass is a dark read and The Subtle Knife is even darker. Therefore, when either is in a graphic novel format, you are not only reading the dark you are seeing the dark. In all its nasty glory. The theme of religion becomes more center stage, and the violence of all worlds comes to a bloody ending (and start and middle) in this adaptation by Stephane Melchior. The Subtle Knife is not an easy read, and the […]

I am getting E.A. Poe vibes here….

Forever Maps by Michael Lagace

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cbr14bingo Gaslight Level 2 Forever Maps could fit several of the categories, but I am picking Gaslight as this is a book started in the late 1770’s and ends “now” (or at the very least sometime after the late 1940’s), There are horses and carriages are sent to fetch people, with cars only show up at the end. There are traveling salesmen who go to trading post after western store, and a character who is a cruel, perhaps even evil, but truly sad, liar. Michael […]

Meesh is a GOOD demon!

Meesh the Bad Demon Volume One by Michelle Lam

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cbr14bingo #Monster #LevelTwoAt first, I thought Meesh the Bad Demon Volume One was going to be too sugary sweet for me. And I will not lie, it is terribly sweet, but not overly sweet. Okay, some people will think way too sweet, but I did not. I thought Meesh was a cute, fun, adorable little demon who puts herself whole heartily into what she loves. Which are fairies, princesses, flowers, and her grandmother. But you see, Meesh is a demon, and they are not supposed […]

HandsValues & Virtues

Soon, Your Hands by Jonathan Stutzman

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Three children and three different and diverse families are the focus of Soon, Your Hands by Jonathan Stutzman. The families are two dads and a son, a mother and father and daughter (who is hearing different), and a young boy with this mother and grandmother. We follow them (what seems to be one day) where one dad goes off to work, where the other stays home with their son to make a surprise birthday party. One father flies off (as a piolet) and the mother […]

One Turnip Child to go please

Alcatoe and the Turnip Child by Isaac Lenkiewicz

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I do not know who Alcatoe is in Alcatoe and the Turnip Child, but I do know this book by Isaac Lenkiewicz is a silly folktale with a few odd twists and turns. Okay, that is not totally true, Alcatoe is a grumpy old witch (they came to magic late in life at age 54), who does not fit in. They do not like the other witches, think the kids of the story are annoying and wants to cause trouble wherever they go. The story […]



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