Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Here There Be Dragons (it’s Steve)

The Faraway Inn by Sarah Beth Durst

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At this point I think it’s just safe to assume that all bed and breakfasts have some weird magical shenanigans going on. I’ve got my eyes on you Vermont, so quaint and charming. Sixteen year old Calisa is heading to Vermont for the summer to help out at her aunt’s bed and breakfast. She’s nursing her first real heartbreak and hoping a change of scenery will help heal that wound. But what she finds when she gets there is not the cozy inn she barely […]

“When we’re mindful, we notice sooner when we’re barreling into mental “time travel.” We come back to what’s in front of us, which otherwise may not get much attention at all. We recognize when thoughts make a challenging situation even more challenging.”

Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Teen ADHD: Build Executive Functioning Skills, Increase Motivation, and Improve Self-Confidence by Mark Bertin and Karen Bluth

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Beginning this review has been more challenging than I anticipated because I find myself stumbling over language. There is a lot of misunderstanding and stigma around ADHD. I don’t like calling it a “condition” and I certainly don’t want to call it a “disorder” because that supposes that there is a “right” way to be and exist. In our society, we have lumped brains into “neurotypical” and “neuroatypical” categories, and ADHD drops you into the “neuroatypical” box. Having a diagnosis for my kiddo has enabled […]

Hi I’m your new bunk mate and my body count is 1

Teen Killers Club (volume one) by Lily Sparks

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Both predictable and a few surprises, Teen Killers Club (volume one) has a few bumps and bruises and some killings. Okay, a lot of killing. The overall of this novel I enjoyed, however, there were several parts I did not. The biggest two were Signal (our innocent member of this summer camp from heck) is a major Damsel in Distress and she thinks she can change people just by loving them. Even murderers who really like their “hobby.”  There are several heavy-handed plot points, some […]

A teen goes missing… years later the truth comes out

Open House: A Novel by Katie Sise

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Ooh I liked this one. It’s a common theme in the thriller or suspense genre. Something happens to a teen. Years or decades pass. Something brings the people surrounding the event back together. The truth comes out slowly. More people die! I’m not saying that’s a bad thing. I love it. I’ve read a bunch of books with that similar theme, but I’ve liked them all. Our main character is Haley, and the missing/murdered teen was her sister Emma. Haley leaves for a while to […]

Superhero 101

Naomi Season One (TV Tie-In by Brian Michael Bendis

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I am glad I was not the only one who was not completely taken with this graphic novel. The Goodreads reviews were averaging two and three for scores. Naomi Season One has almost nothing original to it. It was created to have representation of a person of color as the main character. It is filled with clichés, and steals Superman’s origin story (alien from another world, left on Earth). Naomi even learns of her alien heritage in a cave. Her white adoptive parents are typical, […]

a #cannonbookclub favorite RETURNS!

It All Comes Back to You by Farah Naz Rishi

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Last year, during our The Future is Queer book club event, we were introduced to the sweet and complicated world of Farah Naz Rishi with her debut novel, I Hope You Get This Message. She returns next week with a decidedly different but still warmly familiar follow up: It All Comes Back to You. IHYGTM sits firmly on the edge of an apocalypse; aliens have made contact with Earth and time is quickly slipping away. It All Comes Back to You is firmly planted in another […]



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