Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Another strong book from Tessa Dare

The Wallflower Wager (Girl Meets Duke #3) by Tessa Dare

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Tessa Dare does a great job balancing humor and serious storytelling as a rule and this book is a very good example of that skill. Plot: We follow Lady Penelope Campion, my favourite of the gang, is a devoted animal lover and vegetarian. This has made her unpalatable to the men of London who for some reason don’t want to live in a house with a bunch of animals, including a goat. Gabriel Duke (not aristocrat, just named Duke, I see what you did there […]

Not all Gingerbread Boys are edible

Lint Boy by Aileen Leijten

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(image taken from internet) I was expecting a story about…. I do not know. But not something like what Lint Boy is. I did not realize Aileen Leijten’s story was going to be part gingerbread boy, part Coraline and part Toy Story. To name a few. I am sure you could find other stories to compare it too. On the surface it is a quirky fantasy story of friendship and never giving up. It is about loyalty and fighting for what is right. A little […]

Putting the Kick in Sidekick

Super Sidekicks #1: No Adults Allowed by Gavin Aung Than

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Due November 2020, this funny, clever and modern story is going to be your child’s newest reading series. Super Sidekicks #01: No Adults Allowed follows three superhero sidekicks who are tired of the “kick” part in “sidekick” (after all if they are so super, how come they can’t wash their own super costumes, walk their pets and clean their own secret hideaways?) Therefore, JJ and his fellow sidekicks, go off on their own. Here they learn what friendship is all about and though fighting the […]

I wish last time I stubbed my toe the ending was a sweet

Because I Stubbed My Toe by Shawn Byous

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Because I heard we had a few new damaged copies of books I looked on the shelf at work that housed them. Because I looked at the at shelf, I found several books I thought might be interesting to read. And one of those books that was there was because Shawn Byous wrote a book. And it was also there because the store was able to buy it for its selves. But because it was damaged, it was there to be read by me. And […]

From the depths of hell, I stab at thee! (CBR12Bingo: White Whale)

The Second City: Backstage at the world's greatest comedy theater by Sheldon Patinkin

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I have owned this book for twenty years. I remember getting it when it came out. I am a comedy nerd. My parents love The Second City. This book should have been a homerun for me. It absolutely was not. There is a reason this book took me twenty years to read. It felt like it took twenty years once I started.  And, incidentally, I started it about four times and every time put it the hell back down because I couldn’t make myself want […]

Gloriously Deranged Insanity

Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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Sorry, but it’s nigh on impossible to discuss this book without mentioning the endgame from Gideon The Ninth. You probably shouldn’t be picking up this book anyhow if you haven’t read Gideon. And if you have read Gideon, perhaps give it a bit of a re-read before embarking on Harrow The Ninth. You will thank me later. This book enjoys being tricky Man, this was one of my most anticipated books of the summer. After the wild ride that was Gideon The Ninth, I was […]



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