Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Books have been a part of my life from a very young age . I'm currently being ruled over by 3 cats (Rafferty, Bodhi Rook & Yersinia Pestis), who I can mostly get not to chew on book covers. Lately, I'll read anything, though Science Fiction and Romance will always be on the bottom of the pile.

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“Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike.”

Soulless by Gail Carriger

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It’s dreadfully awkward being soulless in Victorian High Society. Add to that being the spinster daughter of a dead Italian, and life just isn’t working out for Alexia Tarabotti, and that’s before she’s attacked by a vampire at a social gathering. Bad enough that breaks all societal etiquette, but it also comes along with the downside that now Alexia has to deal with Lord Conall Maccon, the loud, obnoxious, Scottish werewolf sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. It seems that known vampires are disappearing nightly, […]

To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that.”

The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

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I love when a trilogy is a banger from start to finish. Exiled at the end of the last book, Jude is out for either self-pitying or revenge, mostly self-pitying. Running errands for a local Fae in Maine, riding a dinky bike squatting in the spare room of her older half-sister’s ex-girlfriend’s apartment is not the way she thought her reign would go. I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness. Of course that changes when Taryn shows up because […]

The Rough-Face Girl Had Faith In Herself and She Had Courage

The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin & David Shannon

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In this Algonquin rendition of Cinderella, The Rough-Face Girl lives with her father and two beautiful yet cruel sisters in a village on the shores of Lake Ontario. On the outskirts of the village lives the Invisible Being; a rich, powerful, and supposedly very handsome man who every woman in the village has set her sights on. However, to win his hand the women have to get past his sister and the tests she places in their paths. When her stepsisters fail, can the Rough-Face […]

Princess and the Amazing Technicolor Fur Coat

Princess Furball by Charlotte Huck & Anita Lovel

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The story is, according to the author’s inscription, “one of the many variants of the Cinderella story; readers will recognize it as being similar to the English ‘Catskin’ and to the Grimms’ ‘Many Furs’ or ‘Thousand Furs. The title princess (who is actually nameless) grows up without a mother but with a serious indifferent father. Her only comfort is her nanny, who teaches her writing, reading, dancing, and cooking; a standard gamut of royal tutorage except for the cooking. But when her nanny dies, her […]

Simple Pleasures

The King Who Learned To Smile by Seymour Reit

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The king, a young boy named Harold, has all gold things. Gold crown and gold robe, gold shoes, gold throne and gold bed, gold toothbrush and gold comb, gold brush and gold pen, gold spoon and gold plates. He even had goldfish in a gold bowl, and his favorite book is Goldilocks and the Three Bears. And yet he’s unhappy (I’d go with gold everything has to be heavy, never mind the glare when the lights hit it, but I guess royalty does things differently), […]

I might have known it’d be fudge

Dorrie and the Wizard’s Spell by Patricia Coombs

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Dorrie, the little witch with her constantly bent hat and her mismatched socks and her cat Gink, lives with her mother Big Witch and Cook in their Victorian house. One day they go to the Bazaar to sell Big Witch’s odds and ends and potions and balms. While there, Big Witch disappears right from under Dorrie’s nose. She’s apparently been turned into a teacup, and unless Dorrie can get Wink the Wizard to reverse it, she’s going to have a teacup for a mother for […]



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