Cannonball Read 18

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As if cleaning out Mean Grandma’s hoard wasn’t unpleasant enough, now there are possibly monsters?

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

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I had read good things about T. Kingfisher from other Cannonballers, so when I saw this one at the book store I grabbed it. I will definitely be seeking out more of her stuff. This is a story about a heroic dog. Okay, maybe not really, but the dog is a very important part of the story, and the storyteller says over and over that if Bongo had been scared, she would’ve run. She trusted his instincts more than her own. We all think that […]

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The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell

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I’m not even sure where to start with this one. Typically, I would summarize the plot, but I’m not sure I know what happened. I may have fallen asleep and missed something, but I’ll give it a whirl – A quirky family of six live in a house. Their family seems to revolve around their Easter celebration, until one year, tragedy strikes. Mother and Father divorce. They split the house in two and Father moves next door. Mother invites her girlfriend and her child to […]

Why I Can’t Watch “Hoarders” and Its Ilk

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Kimberly Rae Miller has written a thoughtful and touching account of her life as the child of loving, supportive parents who also struggled with hoarding. From the outside, her life in a working-class community on Long Island probably seemed typical to most of the people around her–because even as a young girl, Miller put tremendous effort into creating that impression to protect her family. In fact, she lived in homes that were packed to the brim with papers, broken appliances, and more–homes in which the […]

An entertaining and informative look at hoarding.

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This book was completely fascinating. I know I say this a lot, but I really should have reviewed this book right after reading, because details don’t always stick around long enough for me to remember to write about them. This book in particular was chock full of so many interesting details I know it would be impossible for me to convey most of them even if I’d written this review ten seconds after finishing. And it’s been a month and a half. Randy O. Frost […]

Clean Sweep

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Another book I borrowed from Badkittyuno but somehow managed to write my review first. This means I get to tell you about our Uncle Frank before she does too. When I was about 10 my family and I went up to Chicago; my uncle had fallen, he never had people over and all our family had migrated out of Illinois years ago- it was his dog who woke him up. While he was in the hospital my parents had to clean his house, the house […]



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