Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Birthday Cupcakes Gone Bad!

Forsynthia V01: Rise of the Cupcakes   by Rachel DiNunzio

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Working in an independent bookstore has a lot of perks. One is that you get emails telling you BOOK X is coming out! Request a reader’s copy today! And when I got an email telling me that Forsynthia V01: Rise of the Cupcakes  by Rachel DiNunzio was available I emailed the rep and asked if they had a finished copy. And they happily sent me one. Therefore, I read via a physical reader’s copy and glad I did. An online version would not have had […]

Living Dead Girls

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

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Come Tumbling Down is the fifth book in the Wayward Children series and features some of my favorite characters and my favorite magical world so far, The Moors. The Moors look as if they were conceived by the classic MGM horror movie makers but their rules are much more bloody and dangerous. It also sees the return of Jack and Jillian Wolcott, who returned to The Moors at the end of book one, with Jack carrying her dead sister with her through their door. If […]

I am once again begging you not to go into the forest

Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed

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I don’t really like the wild woods. Give me a nice trail I can run on, bike on, or walk my dog on and I’m good. But take me off the path into the woods – nah. In the woods, there is a potential for monsters, or so the many scary books I have read have taught me, haha. (Disclaimer: I have only respect for people who can safely hike and adventure in the woods. You are a different breed than I am, and good […]

“But the question I find myself asking is this: How can a man control your fate when he is not even the master of his own?”

A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen

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Freya is sick of being stuck in a loveless marriage, spending her days gutting fish and keeping house. But when she reveals her identity as a child of the goddess Hlin, she is swept up into the politics of the realm, for it has been prophesied that whoever controls her fate will become king of the land. Fantasy was always my first love when it came to books. Nowadays I have ranged far from that familiar region, but sometimes you just want to go back […]

Seizing Your Own Destiny

The Princess Protection Program by Alex London

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When Rosamund is awoken from a hundred year sleep by a stranger’s kiss, she runs from him – and escapes into a strange school to join other fairytale princesses (and a prince) trying to avoid their futures. But all is not as it seems, and the headmistress may be keeping a sinister secret. At some point in the 2010s fairytale retellings seemed all the rage. I enjoyed them generally until they started blending together, but that doesn’t mean I’m not always up for a new […]

Spicy pancake celebrations

Gingerbread Dreidels by Jane Breskin Zalben

Attack of the Scones (Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast by Josh Funk

Spicy Spicy Hot! by Lenny Wen

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Who doesn’t love food? I mean most people at least like it or have at least one thing they like. And if you know me, I like books as well as food. So when I can combine the two likes it is always fun.  I will start with Gingerbread Dreidels by Jane Breskin Zalben with illustrations by Thai Phuong. Due late August 2024 (read via an online reader copy), this picture book shows how we can have a lot of celebrations in our lives, and […]



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