Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


A book so good I may soon need an intervention if I’m ever to stop re-reading it

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

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An absolutely fantastic follow up to Every Heart A Doorway, Down Among The Sticks and Bones gives us the back story to two of the most interesting characters from its predecessor, showing us how Jack and Jill found themselves at Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children in an outing that is so brilliant I found myself devouring it within hours before turning around and reading it all over again. Jack and Jill weren’t always who we now know them to be. Born Jacqueline and Jillian […]

You Had One Rule, Just the One

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

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This is the latest of the Wayward Children novellas, and it returns the reader to the world of the Moors – the home that Jack and Jill found when they went through their door.  McGuire’s second novella explored Jack and Jill’s life before they attended the Home for Wayward Children.  I actually hadn’t expected her to return the Moors, but Jack and Jill’s return at the end of the Every Heart a Doorway had certainly left the potential to explore more of their story. The […]

My Portal to Another Land would definitely not lead to Candy Land

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

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While the second Wayward Child novella delved deeper into the backstory of two characters from the first novel.  This novella, on the other hand, takes the reader back to the school grounds to meet new children trying to find their way home while also checking in on old characters. Cora and Nadya are two new characters, and they were called to magical realms where they had strong connections to water, Cora as a mermaid, and Nadya as a Drowning Girl.  As a result, it is […]

Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

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This is the second novella in the Wayward Children series, and I was slightly surprised with the topic. The first novella was about a boarding school for children who return from magical worlds reached by cupboards and secret passages, and are having trouble adjusting to life back home because they want to go back.  I expected that the second novella would be more adventures at the boarding school, or possibly explore the idea of other schools.  After all, this is for children that want to […]

“I’ve Been Expelled From Heaven, I Think I was In Heaven”

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

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I’m not sure if I have been in a book slump or of my mind hasn’t been able to focus due to all the things going on at work at the beginning of the year, or if it was inability to find a book that could hold my attention.  It was probably a hybrid of the two, since I’m still in a very picky mood about books, but count on Seanan McGuire, a true and tried favorite, to get me out of my slump. I’m rather late getting to […]

A New Favorite Series [UPDATED]

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This series is everything I wanted (and more) from Miss Peregrine’s…of which I was not a fan. The first book, Every Heart a Doorway—and how can you not love a book with that title—wasn’t my favorite, but was special because of what it was: a love letter to days spent wandering through attics and cellars, woods and riverbeds, and all the other mysterious places I spent my childhood in search of that One Magic Thing. I never knew what I was looking for when I […]



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