Cannonball Read 18

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I would live your life so much better than you, if I had your face.

If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

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If I Had Your Face is a first novel, and it shows. Frances Cha follows four (or maybe five) young women in Seoul as they try to keep their heads above water. They live in a boarding house and have slowly reached out to each other over time. There’s an artist, an entertainer in a ‘room salon,’ a mute hairdresser, her friend who is obsessed with extreme plastic surgery, and a pregnant lady downstairs who initially looks down on these women, but eventually seeks their […]

Word of the Day: Kindness

Can Sophie Change the World? by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

A Small Kindness by Stacy McAnulty

Hundred Feet Tall by Benjamin Scheuer

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Kindness is the word of the day. Or, at least, the word of the review. Sophie wants to give a gift for her grandfather. He says he does not want anything, but when she insists, he asks her to perform a good work and change the world (a mitzvah). She does not know how she can change the world. She is just a kid and not able to do big things. But when she tells her grandfather of the acts she did while trying to […]

I had a story read to me!

Aalfred and Aalbert by Morag Hood

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When I found my notes for Aalfred and Aalbert I noticed it was Peachtree Publishers that started my online rabbit hole of finding books read via YouTube/online. You see (previous later for Miss Althea readings) I found a link to one Miss Terra Cotta Sugarbaker in the newsletter sent to me via this publisher. They were reading Aalfred and Aalbert for a Drag Queen Storytime. I had a few minutes to give to have a story read to me. Now, the set up/Miss Sugarbaker’s presentation […]

A beautiful witchy sapphic romance full of healing

Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches by Kate Scelsa

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I wanted to read this book for a witchy, sapphic romance, but this delivered so much more. If you need a story about finding true friends, healing after tragedy, and a sweet sapphic romance as a bonus, this book is for you. Eleanor has felt ostracized from the community in Salem since a tragedy last Halloween, but when she receives a book detailing the Major Arcana of Smith Rider Waite tarot deck and meets Pix and Ofira, she begins a journey of healing and growth. […]

Love, Ghosts and Werewolves

Blackwater by Jeannette Arroyo and Ren Graham

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I found a way to read Blackwater by Jeannette Arroyo and Ren Graham online. Now, I will tell you, buy the book in July instead of doing this. I mean, I read the book that way and still plan on purchasing a copy. Not only do you support an author/illustrator this way, but you will also want to read this book wherever you are. And if you have no service for phone or tablet or whatever kids read on these days, well old school is […]

When she says old she means old (and sassy!)

Old Friends by Margaret Aitken

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When you think of old friends you might think of the friend you have had since kindergarten (all of two years ago), or you might think of the one you have had since high school (over thirty years ago). Or you might think of your friend who lives in a senior home. And that thought is a little closer to the theme of the story about a young girl and her special friends in Old Friends by Margaret Aitken. Marjorie is an old soul who […]



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