Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Crystalclear can usually think of something clever to say, except when she can't. She has a giant stack of unread books at home but will always find an excuse to buy/acquire/borrow another one. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: crystalclear's Quick Questions interview.)

crystalclear's Reviews:

Life has thrown a lot at me recently, so here are all the reviews I forgot to write!

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

The Miraculous by Jess Redman

The Tea Dragon Festival by K. O'Neill

An Exchange of Gifts by Anne McCaffrey

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

The Sandman: Act I by Neil Gaiman

The Princess Spy by Larry Loftis

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The Bear and the Nightingale By Katherine Arden (Warning – the review of this book contains f-bombs!) I know this was supposed to be based on a fairy tale, and some parts seemed very fairy tale-like (especially the story the nanny told toward the beginning with the girls in the snow) but I did not correlate them to any story I already knew.  I appreciated the involvement of the Russian household spirits, and how the village did quite well combining their religion and their culture […]

If you thought they couldn’t reboot a book, you were wrong!

Super Powereds: Year One by Drew Hayes

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Super Powereds: Year One By Drew Hayes So, Drew Hayes is my favorite author.  My favorite series of his is his Super Powereds series (which I’ve reviewed twice already for Cannonball!)  I am in love with Kyle McCarley as an audiobook reader (and I even follow him on Twitch to support him and to hear him talk!)  So when I saw that they were rerecording the audiobooks, I was taken aback.  Why mess with perfection?  Kyle McCarley’s voices were the voices of the characters!  How […]

What if you could blame everything bad on someone else?

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

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Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow By Jessica Townsend   Morrigan Crow has the dubious distinction of being a Cursed Child (no, not the same one from the play.)  When a child is born on Eventide, they are said to be cursed, and are doomed to die on their eleventh birthday.  Everything bad that happens, be it a lost spelling bee or a spoiled batch of marmalade, is blamed on the local cursed child.  Morrigan’s father, a government official, sits down periodically with her and […]

Sports are Fantastic Fun, and so are these books!

Sports are Fantastic Fun by Ole Könnecke

The Magic Tree House: Hour of the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne

Ancient Greece and the Olympics: A Nonfiction Companion to Hour of the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne

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Sports are Fantastic Fun Ole Könnecke No gonna lie, I just went to the juvenile nonfiction section of my library and found the sports section to find something for the Sports Ball Bingo square.  I’m not all that into sports, and there were other squares that interested me more.  But I found some interesting picks!   Sports are Fantastic Fun reads like one of the videos from the 1950’s that they would have featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000.  But it’s paired with fun, whimsical […]

Two books about fat girls

Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy

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Dumplin’ By Julie Murphy   I’ve been meaning to read Dumplin’ for a while.  As a fat girl myself, it only seemed appropriate to read about another fat girl joining a beauty pageant.  But the story is so much more than that!   Willowdean Dixon is the daughter of a former Miss Teen Blue Bonnet Pageant winner, one who never really left the pageant behind.  Willowdean’s mother runs the pageant every year, turning their lives into a pageant hurricane zone.  But it never really bothered […]

“In the name of the Garden State Parkway, I am not a princess!

The Serpent's Secret by Sayantani DasGupta

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The Serpent’s Secret By Sayantani DasGupta   Kiranmala is a normal, 12-year-old Indian girl living in Parsippany, NJ.  She goes to school, she has friends, and her parents own a convenience store.  She bemoans the fact that her parents insist that she dress up as a “real Indian princess” every year for Halloween (which also happens to be her birthday!)  This year, things are a bit different though.     When Kiran gets home from school, something is off.  She’s trying to figure out what exactly […]



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