Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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The Unforgiving Desert

Journal of the Dead by Jason Kersten

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CBR16 Bingo – Fiasco: David and Raffi’s trip into Rattlesnake Canyon is an utter fiasco from start to finish. When authorities find Raffi Kodikian barely alive four days after he and his best friend David Coughlin got lost in an desert canyon, they make a grim discovery. Raffi claims to have stabbed David to death in a mercy killing, but the police suspect the truth may be darker. It was awkward on my way out of the library with this book, because another patron, intrigued […]

“If eyes were the windows into the soul, Delilah’s had long been shuttered.”

Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

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4.5 stars CBR16 Sweet Books: New (author and series) CBR16 Book Bingo: Pride Delilah Green grew up in Bright Falls, in the care of her wealthy, but emotionally cold stepmother (after her father died), and never managed to forge a connection to her always perfect stepsister Astrid either. Astrid had her two best friends, Claire and Iris, and more than once Delilah overheard them saying mean things about her. When she got the chance, she left Bright Falls for New York and has rarely been back […]

An unpopular opinion for a popular subject as my first Bingo Review

A Song for Nolan by Rushie Ellenwood

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cbr16bingo  Pride  (the character is non-binary)  This is going to be an unpopular opinion. I did not like A Song for Nolan by Rushie Ellenwood and Sally Chen. Now, let me say I like the theme of a nonbinary child and their friends and this situation they find themselves in, but the execution didn’t exactly work for me. Nolan is a non-binary child doing what any child would do: Getting ready for their friend’s birthday party. Maybe they are a bit more eccentric than some, […]

Fun Dogs and Funky Grandmothers

Dalmartian: A Mars Rover's Story by Lucy Ruth Cummins

Gaga Mistake Day by Emma Straub, Susan Straub

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Books are my thing. In my high school yearbook I was the one to be found reading. (Okay, it might have been because nobody on the yearbook team really knew me, but they also were not wrong). And this would make most think that I have never met a book I have not wanted to read. Trust me, I’ve met plenty (I’m looking at you self-published Zombie Christmas trees….Though I did try three pages…). Some days these “don’t wants” never get read, some are started […]

A Rally Scoring story

Match Point! by Maddie Gallegos

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Match Point! by Maddie Gallegos is available but I was lucky enough to still have my online reader copy. However, there were a few places where a physical copy would have been welcomed. Things can be a bit crowded, though the images are a nice minimalistic approach, but are still giving you the extras illustrations have to move a story along.  The story is familiar, Rosie is a girl who does not like racquetball because of how her father pushes her into it, how he […]

Her House is a Very Crazy (and loving) house

The Apartment House on Poppy Hill V01 by Nina LaCour

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The Apartment House on Poppy Hill V01 by Nina LaCour is part Part Pippi Longstocking and part Mary Poppins. It is about a young girl, Ella, who knows everything there is about the apartments in her house on the hill. Like it is not on the top or the bottom of the hill, but in the middle. She knows the strict rules for the garden. How to park on the hill (even though she is only nine). And that the house has five apartments, A […]



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