Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Love Lies Bleeding

Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash

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What kind of book is Rainbow Black supposed to be? I speculate here because I finished it three days ago and still don’t know the answer or how I fully feel about it beyond, “I really liked it, loved it in some parts, wish I was moved by others.” It’s such a rigidly unsentimental book from beginning-to-end and I’m not sure if that’s what made me dock it or not because the writing here is so good. The book starts off with a bang. I was enthralled […]

Maggie Thrash: Girl trying to understand

Lost Soul, Be at Peace by Maggie Thrash

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Lost Soul, Be at Peace is not an easy read. This time, Maggie Thrash has created a graphic novel that is more fantastical than Honor Girl was. Instead of dealing with the issues camp, friends and coming to terms with one’s sexuality in a realistic and relatable way, she has created something that deals with the past and ghosts. Even the living ones. How can there be a living ghost? That is the plot point. Based on Thrash’s own experiences, this time our character Maggie […]

“And Benny might have been clueless about a lot of things, but about one thing he was absolutely right: Your only hope was to Be There…”

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This was a weird mystery, but not in the way I like my weird. The book is about a pair of mismatched teen detectives, Benny and Virginia, who try to find the truth when a popular cheerleader jumps off a bridge during a football game. It’s so hard to talk about this book. There were moments where I liked it, then some weird thing would happen and it just put me off it. It’s like a nice cookie with raisins sprinkled throughout. Except, here the […]



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