Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Guards! Guards!: A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett

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I find that if I am in need of a book to make me laugh a bit and maybe think a bit, Terry Pratchett is an excellent choice. I received Guards! Guards! as part of last year’s holiday book exchange and couldn’t have been happier. I’ve only read a handful of books from Pratchett’s enormous Discworld series, but I have enjoyed every one that I’ve read and this is no exception. Guards! Guards! involves political power plays, bumbling police, a love story and dragons.  The […]

To find a plant and plant it

Spirited V03 Greenhouse of Horror by Liv Livingston

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Spirited V03 Greenhouse of Horror by Liv Livingston, Glass House Graphics and illustrated by Anna Volcan is due in July 2024. Therefore, as books one and two, this was read via an online reader copy. Book four is due in October 2024 but I’m still looking for a reader copy. However, if you want to read all four at once, in mid-November 2024 the collection of all four books will be available in a boxed edition. And honestly, I think you should (or use your […]

Now goodnight moon, I want the sun

What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher

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  What Feasts at Night is the second book in T. Kingfisher’s Sworn Soldier series. The protagonist Alex Easton is a sworn soldier of Gallacia, a land that uses pronouns a bit differently. Alex is what we would consider non-binary. After the chilling events of the first book, (a dread-filled retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher) Alex and their manservant Angus head to their family’s hunting lodge to relax recuperate. They find the lodge in shambles and find that the caretaker has […]

This school has spirit

Spirited V02 Go, Ghoul, Go! by Liv Livingston

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The one thing I have with sequels is that if I read them too far apart, I forget parts of book one/the book(s) before. And that happened with  Spirited V02 Go, Ghoul, Go! by Liv Livingston and Glass House Graphics. I mean, I remembered that Liv is the only living person (if you don’t count the werewolves and creatures of the swamp and such, I don’t count vampires) in a school of mostly ghosts. I remembered that she has two good friends, a “mean-girl” in […]

Ghosts and the waffle trick

Hugo’s Haunted Handbook by Dave Whamond

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Hugo’s Haunted Handbook by Dave Whamond is a cute story about getting rid of a “scary ghost” who maybe is not as scary as you think, or as “gone” as you might hope. The humor is modern, with some cleverness for both the aimed reader (stronger age six/seven to around age 10) and adults. Along the lines of Fitz and Cleo by Jonathan Stutzman and Simon and Chester by Cale Atkinson. Things are simple, and the artwork is what you need to watch so you […]

The Witch is a you know… so some heroes gotta stop her

The Witch's Throne volume one by Cedric Caballes

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I like graphic novels, enjoy some fantasy and if a story has comedy and adventure, that is not a turn off. And The Witch’s Throne volume one by Cedric Caballes is all the above.  Set up as if you are playing a Dungeons & Dragon like online game, there are multiple stories going along simultaneously with about a dozen main characters. However, it is not always clear when you are moving onto them, and with the several characters and several story-lines all at once, things […]



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