Cannonball Read 17

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Let’s Get Physical

Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

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Elsie is a theoretical physicist, stuck in a dead-end job she hates – teaching ungrateful students who keep emailing her day and night with excuses as to why they can’t meet their deadlines – while barely making ends meet. To get by, she works as a fake girlfriend for a company called Faux: men who are tired of their family members asking them when they’re going to find a girl, or men who need a plus-one for a corporate dinner, hire Elsie for the night. […]

Space…. The adventure

Clouds in Space: Nebulae, Stardust, and Us by Teresa Robeson

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In the early part of the later section of August 2024 a book came out, but it was lost in the shuffle of the wonderful and crazy that is the book world. I became aware of it when I found an online reader copy of Clouds in Space: Nebulae, Stardust, and Us by Teresa Robeson. I decided lunch was dull enough, so let’s spice it up with the stars. This fairly quick reading picture book at first read did not grab me. It was more […]

She blinded me with science… stories in rhyme

Meet the Universe: I'm a Black Hole by Eve M. Vavagiakis

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I’m a Black Hole by Eve M. Vavagiakis and Jessica Lanan being the illustrator, is currently available, but I read via an online reader copy. And I think twice. This might sound like, since I can’t remember it, that I did not like it, and maybe the first time it didn’t “grab my attention,” but this time around I appreciated it more. And that is why I should allow myself to read again, but there are so many new books out there. Like I’m a […]

The motion in the ocean and other places

 Hands-On Science: Motion  by Lola M. Schaefer

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I have been reading more books on science as I was never a science kid growing up. And honestly, if they had taught science this way, I probably would be a lot better at it. Rule number one: do not assume someone else has taught the basics (this also works for English/spelling as well). Rule number two, do experiments. And rule number three, make them fun. And it does seem that the Hands-On Science: Motion book has all those things. Lola M. Schaefer gives you science and shows you practical […]

Peanuts, Cracker Jack, pop flies . . . and physics?

Science, Matter and the Baseball Park by Catherine Ciocchi

Finley: A Moose on the Caboose by Candace Spizzirri

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I am not usually a baseball fan or science fan, but some times things happen within a book to change that. And while Science, Matter and the Baseball Park did not make me want to run and join a baseball team or get season tickets to the local science museum, it did make me go, “well now. Ain’t that a bat to the noggin.” (But in a good way.) Catherine Ciocchi, Burgen Thorne and Chantelle Thorne made a book that brings the theme of Matter […]

CBR15 Bingo: Getaway

Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

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4.5 stars CBR15 Bingo: Getaway (I don’t see a good way to fill the South America square) For this review, I resurrected Mrs. Julien’s romance review template from way back in 2013. I’ve tweaked it, but the major framework is still there. Love, Theoretically is a romance of the enemies to lovers AND I’m scared and unworthy of love: Hero meets heroine. He is the disapproving older brother of the man who is paying her to be his fake girlfriend. He thinks she’s a librarian, […]



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