Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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CBR BINGO: Middle—”How much shower stuff does he think one woman needs for a month? It’s like how NASA tried to send Sally Ride to space for one week with a hundred tampons ‘just in case’.”

Happy Medium by Sarah Adler

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This was fine! I waited too long to read it. I still liked most romances back in 2024 when it was published. This one follows Gretchen, a fake medium who has a Rule that she will only take money to lie to people about their dead relatives if she can leave them better than she found them. Her most important client pays her $10k to do an “exorcism” on the farm of her bridge partner. Gretchen of course accepts the offer, expecting to find an […]

More French Werewolves

The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan

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Bingo Square: Season (winter) While this is currently a stand alone, I think it could work well as a series. In fact, in some ways, I think I would even like this book more as the first in a series than a stand alone. While it’s a longer novel than your average late 2000s/early-to-mid 2010s urban fantasy novel, it has the same feel as some of the first books in many of those series. Think The Dresden Files or Kate Daniels – there are some […]

Knock Knock. Who’s There? A new bestie

The Skeleton and the Cat by Brandon James Scott

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This is the time of year when one is bombarded with emails about new books just out or coming out soon. Most of the time, I’m not really interested in them. Not to say they are not good, or even interesting sounding, just I have to pick what I spend time with. I find reading picture books is a way to spend time with books. You don’t have to spend a lot of time with them, but you do get the rush of having read […]

A weird heartwarming story about dead people

Hotel Limbo V01 by Ben Harel

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Okay, Hotel Limbo V01 by Ben Harel….  What the h-e-double hockey sticks did I read? This is one confusing, wild, unusual and crazy book. In other words, it is a must read. Okay, readers. I cannot tell you the story. Sure I can but it then tells you everything you would experience and honestly you should go into this book with no preconceptions other than that it is a journey and experience. But I will say we deal with death. Except it’s funny. Until it […]

Neshama would make a good name for a perfume

Neshama by Marcella Pixley

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Marcella Pixley’s poetic prose novel, Neshama, is one of those books I would have loved as a kid and good for the 10 and up crowd. However, as an adult, there were a few bumps. The themes are good: being yourself, standing up for yourself and forgiveness, but first, I’ve read several middle grade readers and a lot of books with the theme so it was a bit repetitive. That is why if you’re new/newish to the middle grade coming-of-age story it works perfectly. As […]

Get the garlic….

Love Kills by Danilo Beyruth

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What do I want to say about the graphic novel Love Kills by Danilo Beyruth?  This book was majorly screwed up! I mean, I liked it, despite the ending being blunt, ending on a smack you in the face realization, then nothing afterwards, but overall everything works out well. Though, I would say things lend themselves to be more of a 3.5 and not “just” a three, as I was not a fan of the violent images in some cases, but still thought they set […]



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