Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Pair of Novellas for the February Holidays

A Fake Girlfriend for Chinese New Year by Jackie Lau

A Big Surprise for Valentine's Day by Jackie Lau

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When I read Donut Fall in Love two weeks ago I was reminded almost viscerally of two of Jackie Lau’s novellas from her Holidays with the Wongs series. The chemistry between Donut’s Ryan and Lindsay had the same sort of feeling that A Fake Girlfriend for Chinese New Year’s Zach and Jo did, and it made me want to revisit them, and with Chinese New Year this week (February 1st) I needed no further inducement to pick it back up and give myself a Monday […]

Love, exciting and new

The Loud House Special: Love Out Loud by Loud House Creative Team

Love is for Roaring by Mike Kerr

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This review has a love theme. First, we have the graphic novel The Loud House Special: Love Out Loud by the Loud House Creative Team and second, the picture book Love is for Roaring by Mike Kerr. With the Loud Family we see the Loud Family and the way love is represented: between husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends, girlfriends and girlfriends, between siblings, between animals and their human and even between the youngest Loud child and her love of a certain large fuzzy “man.” […]

Groovy kind of love

Pete the Cat's Groovy Guide to Love by James Dean

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I probably should not admit to this, but I am not a Pete the Cat fan. I know I am in the minority there as James Dean’s books fly off our selves at work. There seems to be one for every holiday. We even had a plush Pete doll before the holidays this year. Therefore, I must admit I was not expecting a lot from Pete the Cat’s Groovy Guide to Love. I thought perhaps it might be a fun Valentine’s Day gift for a […]



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