Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto, for helping me escape just when I needed to. (CBR12Bingo: Repeat – friendship)

Ungifted by Gordon Korman

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Everyone told me that I was going to love college, and that I’d just have to grin and bear it through high school. College was okay, I actually didn’t hate high school (despite being a Daria Morgendorffer type, I quickly fell in with the artsy nerdy kids and our school was diverse enough that the teen movie style cliques didn’t really apply, everyone more or less got along with everyone else give or take), but there is no amount of money you could pay me […]

cbr12bingo – Fresh Start

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

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I have a confession to make: I judged this book by its cover. I remember the frenzy of press around this book, the series, and the *mysterious* author. I also remember seeing the cover and being completely uninterested. It is, in my opinion, a dreadful cover. It looks like it was cobbled together to act as a prop. It looks like a poorly thought out passion project. I still think the cover is awful, but I am glad that I changed my mind around shunning […]

A Unique Read, Above All Else.

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

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If there is one thing that I can say about Charlie Jane Anders, is that she can commit to keeping things weird. Like, deeply, deeply, weird. She’s also not at all afraid to make ambitious leaps with her writing. Her first novel, All the Birds in the Sky was a broad, experimental urban science-fantasy mash-up, which ended up charming a lot of people. And while I could recognise the flashes of brilliance in the book, the whole thing didn’t come together in a way I […]

Not all Gingerbread Boys are edible

Lint Boy by Aileen Leijten

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(image taken from internet) I was expecting a story about…. I do not know. But not something like what Lint Boy is. I did not realize Aileen Leijten’s story was going to be part gingerbread boy, part Coraline and part Toy Story. To name a few. I am sure you could find other stories to compare it too. On the surface it is a quirky fantasy story of friendship and never giving up. It is about loyalty and fighting for what is right. A little […]

Putting the Kick in Sidekick

Super Sidekicks #1: No Adults Allowed by Gavin Aung Than

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Due November 2020, this funny, clever and modern story is going to be your child’s newest reading series. Super Sidekicks #01: No Adults Allowed follows three superhero sidekicks who are tired of the “kick” part in “sidekick” (after all if they are so super, how come they can’t wash their own super costumes, walk their pets and clean their own secret hideaways?) Therefore, JJ and his fellow sidekicks, go off on their own. Here they learn what friendship is all about and though fighting the […]

I’ll have a cup of tea, a dragon and a great story please and thank you

The Tea Dragon Society Vo1 by Katie O’Neill

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(image 100% stolen from internet) The Tea Dragon Society Vo1 is by the author of the Aquacorn book I recently read and reviewed. And this book is filled with contradictions for me. First, I do not think I would have gone onto the Aquacorn book had I read about the Tea Dragons first. There is a lot to love, but it is not as strong as her later book. However, at the same time it is better. Second, I rate this a four, but it […]



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