Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Final down the rabbit hole with Laura Perez

Ocultos by Laura Pérez and translator Andrea Rosenberg

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Ocultos by Laura Pérez and translator Andrea Rosenberg Each book that I have read by Perez has been stranger than the one before. Contradictions. Too many wordless pages. Too much text. Not enough details to the illustrations and, yes, not enough. The colors are both the perfect touch and the most distracting piece of the work. Each of the three titles are perfect with their similarities, yet they are so different at the same time. How can it be the same author? This author and […]

Very much NOT a romantasy

Monster, Monarch, Maiden by Rae Carson

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This was an ARC; thank you to NetGalley, Harper Audio and Greenwillow Books. My opinions are my own. This book is on sale now. Bria Angarsold is an innkeeper’s daughter (she mentions this at seven different points in the story, in case you were likely to forget) who was kidnapped by raiders, along with her sister and several other people who were at her family’s inn at the time. Bria is one of the last surviving captives when the raiders’ caravan is attacked by a […]

New Haven is for (Ghost) Lovers

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

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Galaxy (Alex) Stern sees dead people. And they see her. And sometimes they can touch her, and it’s as horrible as you can imagine. In fact, the first 20 years of Alex’s life have been pretty horrible. Her father has been MIA her whole life. And her hippie-dippie mother, Mira, is well-meaning but completely ineffective when it comes to keeping Alex safe. Instead, Alex turns to drugs; dropping out of high school and moving in with her child predator of a drug dealer boyfriend. Not […]

Goddamn magicians and cats! (Cat photos included)

Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett

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CBR18 BINGO: Refuge, because Agnes runs a private cat shelter, which is the best kind of refuge Whoever designed the cover of Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter deserves a medal. I’m not entirely sure what the crossover is between fantasy lovers and cat lovers, but it must be substantial, and I don’t see how anyone who falls in that space could look at that cover and not pick it up. All those cats, doing cat things, sitting in nooks, stretching, sleeping–it’s irresistible! I’m happy to […]

I did not expect what I got

Fustuk: A Graphic Novel by Robert Mgrdich Apelian

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When I read Fustuk: A Graphic Novel by Robert Mgrdich Apelian, I expected something completely different. I guess I thought there would be more fantasy, less realism. And while I was not exactly sure what that meant, or would entail, I did not expect what I got. And in the end, I think it might have been better than I thought.  The setting and use of food are unique with the coming of age and self-discovery is a comforting familiar part of the story. The […]

Roverpower for the win

Roverpowered 1 by Drew Hayes

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Bingo 2: Refuge How to find solace the week the world loses Dolly Parton, Tim  Curry, Peter Cullen, and I’m getting into a challenging time at work, life outside work is over-busy, I’m tired, etc.? Drew Hayes novellas, obviously. I’ve been a fan of this author for years, knew he had this series Roverpowered, but had never really bothered to look into it further. It’s labeled as cozy fantasy and YA; it deserves those labels, but was also perfect refuge from the real world, at […]



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