Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Rambling around the internet; helping niblings maneuver through college, learn their ABC's and deal with middle school (usually all on the same day); reading to remain alive.

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“We are the ones who ensure history exists to be written.”

One for All by Lillie Lainoff

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Have you ever heard the saying (not the Groucho Marx version, but the earnest one) about becoming a member of a club you don’t want to be a member of? It might just be pretty common in the circles I’ve run in, because I’ve mostly heard people talk about it in relation to loss – How you never want to become &/or welcome a new member to the parents of kids who’ve died club, or the widows’ club. Definitely clubs you do not want to […]

Wrapping up my Cannonball, while I’m wrapping up presents

Highest Mountain, Smallest Star by Kate Baker, Ill by Page Tsou

National Geographic's Rocks & Minerals Sticker Activity Book by National Geographic for Kids

Alvin Ho: Allergic to Birthday Parties, Science Projects & Other Man-Made Catastrophes by Lenore Look, Ill by LeUyen Pham

Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking, & Other Natural Disasters by Lenore Look, Ill. by LeUyen Pham

Yum Yum Baby by Rosealee Wren, Ill by Kat Uno

Babies Love Puppies by Scarlett Wing, Ill Jessica Gibson

There's A Dragon in Your Book by Tom Fletcher, Ill by Greg Abbott

There's An Elf in Your Book by Tom Fletcher, Ill by Greg Abbott

Lego Build Christmas Fun by AMEET Publishing

My Best Friend is A Unicorn by Rachael MacLean

Science Comics: Dogs: From Predator to Protector by Andy Hirsch

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Can I help you guys finish up a little bit of your last minute book shopping, if you’re still doing some? Here’s a rundown of the books I wrapped for my niblings today, in case you’re looking for some books for the young people in your life. For my 8-yr-old, fact obsessed, recently graduated to chapter books nephew, we’ve got Highest Mountain, Smallest Star, by Kate Baker, ill by Page Tsou. With its historical scientific illustrations vibe & it’s plethora of facts, I admit it […]

Let’s spend a little of your hard-earned Christmas book buying budget on some books we wished we could have read as children.

What if, Pig? by Lizzie Hunter

Dad & The Dinosaur by Gennifer Choldenko

Captain Starfish by Davinia Bell

You've Got Dragons by Kathryn Cave

When You Are Brave by Pat Zietlow Miller

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AKA Why this week’s library haul had me in tears. There’s a lot to go over in this review, so I’m bear with me: There’s a reason these books are together like this, I promise. Dad & The Dinosaur by Gennifer Choldenko –Nicholas isn’t brave like his dad: He’s afraid of all sorts of things, like bugs, & darkness, & manhole covers.  But he has a secret weapon: A dinosaur that “likes the dark, bugs are nothing to them, and they eat manhole covers for […]

“You still being petty about that boy?” Jeremiah asked. In my mind I could see my panties flying on the flagpole where Ben had put them for everyone in the high school to see them. Vaguely, I remembered the sensation of my chair being pulled out from under me in kindergarten, too. “He started it.” “Yeah, but y’all are both adults now.”

Much Ado About Barbeque by Sally Kilpatrick

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An enemies to lovers contemporary romance take on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, with a side order of family issues and responsibilities, dueling barbeque restaurants, and a grudge that goes way, way back. This one was a less than an easy read for me: The drama between the two main characters (Emma & Ben) seemed to simultaneously be too big to overcome (like they literally hated each other for unknown reasons at the beginning and middle of the story) and so … secreted that, as […]

Thank You, CoffeeShopReader!

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My lovely book exchange goodies, via the wonderful CoffeeShopReader have arrived, and I’m going to be making myself some tea to have with my leftover pie, to celebrate an early NaNoWriMo victory very shortly.  Thank you ~ this book is definitely at the top of my TBR mountain!

“Do you have sadness in your heart for the world that can never be & sensible shoes? You’ve got weltschmerz.” *

Roxy by Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman

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I don’t think I’ve ever positively reviewed a book I haven’t finished, but this here’s going to be the first. Because I’m the kind of person who can’t rewatch the Scott’s Tots episode of The Office, and who cringes just thinking about that one scene in On His Way to the Wedding (by Julia Quinn: Spoiler for a Bridgerton book ahead) when Gregory professes his love in front of all of London, and … it does not go well.  I just sometimes get to a point […]



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