Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Should Have Stuck with One POV; Also the Book Was Pretty Grim

Hope and Other Punchlines by Julie Buxbaum

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I really wish I had liked this one more. Too bad that it was just full of cliches and one main character (Noah) I disliked from beginning to end. I thought Abbi was fine, but she honestly needed a life since she seemed wholly dependent on her ex-best friend Cat to give her a social life. And I also kind of hated that Abbi was fine with forgiving Noah and his whole blackmail thing, but didn’t want to try to make up with Cat. I […]

Enjoyable af

Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

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3.5 stars. This is feel-good young adult lit without being too fluffy about it. It’s YA rom-com with some serious stuff thrown in. Jessie’s mom died a couple years ago and finds herself relocated to California from Chicago, living with a new step-mom and step-brother. She’s going to a fancy private school with a bunch of kids who either ignore her or hassle her and she misses her life from before. When a mysterious person starts emailing her anonymously offering to help her navigate the […]

“Other people can’t make you feel stupid. Only you can.”

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It’s no secret that I’m a sucker for good YA fiction. And Tell Me Three Things is good YA fiction. Actually, let me clarify that statement. Tell Me Three Things is good YA fiction if you’re the target demographic. If, like me, you’re slightly older than the target demographic and have celebrated many anniversaries of your twenty-ninth birthday, you may not feel the same, but my inner fifteen year old loved it. It’s the beginning of Jessie’s junior year of high school. Her mother died […]



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