Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Heaven Goes to War with Heaven and Mummies try not to fall apart

Grave Importance by Vivian Shaw

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I’d kind of been putting off reading Grave Importance because it’s the conclusion of a series I’ve enjoyed. This was a good ending to the series, and I’m sad it’s over, but at the same time there are a few things I wish had gotten a little more attention. The basic story has two lines that of course merge part way through; first there’s Greta’s in which she takes over a really fancy mummy clinic for a friend for a few months and naturally discovers […]

All Dogs Go to Heaven

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cbr10bingo… Two heads are better than one Even though it’s called two heads are better than one, I went with three heads.  I enlisted the help of my two nieces.  Olivia is eight and Nora is six.  They’re awesome, and they love dogs, and they love reading. This review is both happy and sad.  We read this book because I lost my little guy Ernie this spring.  It was the hardest thing I’ve had to go through in a long long time. He was a […]

Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever.

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It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. I cannot emphasize enough how much of a treat Good Omens is. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett will also tell you how much of a treat it is. They will tell you in their introduction and their afterward how much they wrote it for the love of it […]

A retired football player and a bossy virgin find love in Texas

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The ridiculously named Bobby Tom Denton was Chicago Stars’ famous quarterback until he sustained a career ending knee injury. Now he’s unsure of what he’s going to do with his life, and deeply frustrated about it. When the tenacious and bossy Gracie Snow turns up on his doorstep and announces she’s going to escort him to his hometown Telarosa (formerly Heaven) in Texas to start shooting the action movie he agreed to star in. Gracie’s spent most of her life living a sheltered existence, working […]



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