Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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You REALLY don’t want to know what is in the beer

Open Bar (Edicao Definitiva) by Eduardo Medeiros

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WHAT THE SAM HOUSTON DID I JUST READ? This is one messed up story about two best friend who are two sides of the same coin, making it so they are the perfect collection together. Toss in a really wild (and I wonder how legal) beer, an ex-girlfriend and some crazy accidents and situations and you have an experience story about two losers who just do their damnedest to get by, live, laugh, love, cry and who knows, maybe save the world (or at least […]

Levi…*heart eyes*

Fangirl, the Manga. Vol 2 by Rainbow Rowell, Sam Maggs and Gabi Nam

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4.5 stars CBR14 Bingo: Bodies (Cath and Levi become a lot more aware of each other’s bodies in this volume – not like THAT. Get your mind out of the gutter!) Cath has started getting more comfortable at college and with her classes, but she still finds it difficult to reconcile the fact that her twin, Wren, is having such a great time without her. Wren is embracing the party lifestyle and seems to spend a lot of evenings out drinking with her roommate. Meanwhile, […]

Friends say Meow

Angel in Beijing by Belle Yang

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Belle Yang’s Angel in Beijing is really a simple story, but it is busy and filled with goodies. A young fil finds a cat one night, and after a while, they just name the cat Kitty (as no other name seem to fit). But one day, Kitty runs off. And not even the child’s bell on her bike, that Kitty loves to meow along with, seems to bring her home. But then again, home can have many meanings. And sometimes a surprise like finding a […]

Here comes the (fun) train wreck

Loonicorns V01 Bleary-Eye by Cedric Asna

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I probably should have realized that Loonicorns V01 Bleary-Eye was going to be a train wreck when I saw a cyclops, grumpy unicorn (I guessed it was a unicorn, the horn was a clue) and a girl with a horn. Yet, like wrecks in general, you just cannot look away. Or in this case, stop reading. After all, what was going on? At first, I was, “Nope. Jerky characters in a segregated system? Not my jam.” Still, there was something in Cedric Asna’s words that […]

Grandparents do the oddest things

Granddad’s Pink Trousers by Lucie Hasova Truhelkova

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Granddad’s Pink Trousers is not for everyone. Lucie Hasova Truhelkova made a story that, when you learn the “punch line” you feel bad about judging the grandfather during the rest of the book, but at the same time, I felt the grandfather was judging and the rest of us were really douches for not being like him. I mean, the story is about the man who is strange by most people’s standards. He is upset when his wife tosses out a yogurt that is a […]

When Zafera was Zafera

The Dirt Girl by Jodi Dee

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The Dirt Girl by Jodi Dee seems familiar.  Maybe I have read it before, or maybe it is just a familiar subject. Either way this book is a solid three as I was not blown away by it, but it was also comfortably enjoyable. When Zafera goes to school for the first time, the children tease her. She is the definition of a “Wild Child of Nature.” Ladybugs and twigs in her hair, dirt on her face and dress. OF course, different means “bad” and […]



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