Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

About enaj Mcbob

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So excited now that the zoos are open again

Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell

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This is once again an old favourite, and in this particular instance an original from my childhood.  I’m honestly impressed that it managed to make it through three of us, and that my parents saw fit to keep it. I do love a lift the flap book, as anyone who’s read my previous reviews will know, even if they sometimes cause me issues with my inability to lift the things.  Thankfully as this is an old copy, none of the flaps sat flat so I […]

The Prodigal Son returns

Prodigal Son by Greg Hurwitz

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I started reading this series by Greg Hurwitz in either 2019 or 2020.  I’m afraid I can’t actually tell you which one it was as they’ve merged together in my memory.  I was given one of the later books in the series and enjoyed it enough to go back to the beginning and start the series from scratch. I would classify the books as similar to the Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child.  Evan Smoak was trained to be a government assassin before it all […]

Unexpected Misogny

Where's Mr Dog by Ingela P. Arrhenius

Where's Mr Duck by Ingela P.Arrhenius

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I have combined these two books into one review as they form part of a series of, I think five books, although I have yet to read the others.  They follow the tried and tested formula of lift the flap books, but instead of using easily destroyed cardboard flaps, that can apparently test adults to the point of swearing, they use felt instead.  I have to praise whoever made that decision because its an excellent choice.  No matter how hard Toby tried to pull it, […]

The very tired child

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

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This one is a favourite from my childhood that I had been looking forward to sharing with Toby and we finally got a chance to read it this week.  Sensing an opportunity pre-nap for a quick read, things started off well.  The iconic illustrations took my sister and I straight back to childhood and seemed to entrance Toby to the extent that he sat quietly in my sister’s lap as she turned the pages.  At the halfway point he appeared fully invested but this was […]

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The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

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In keeping with the spirit of not reading the books ahead of time, I was unaware of the plot before reading The Gruffalo to Tobes.  I need to once again compliment Axel Scheffler on the amazing illustrations as they helped to keep everyone focused on the page. I think I may have mis-judged the book though as there’s a lot of text and for a child under one it probably took too long to read.  In case that was mis-understood I am referring to me […]

A recommendation from my decorator

Plum Island by Nelson Demille

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I will take book recommendations from anyone I just won’t always actually read the book if it doesn’t look like my cup of tea. I’ve adjusted that for this year’s challenge to try a couple of new things which is why I bought this without looking at it. While chatting to my decorator, at an appropriate distance, he mentioned Nelson DeMille, so a bit of googling later I had the first in the John Corey series. Written in 1997 it’s a cross between Tom Clancy […]



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