Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Thunder rolled… It rolled a six.

Pyramids by Terry Pratchett

Guards! Guards by Terry Pratchett

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CBR Bingo: Favourite (Pyramids is a new-to-me book in a favourite series, Discworld) CBR Bingo: ‘G’ (Guards! Guards!) Pyramids and Guards! Guards! are the latest in a series of reviews I’m doing of Terry Pratchett’s forty-books-plus Discworld series. They are the seventh and eighth books, respectively, and while Pyramids is a relative standalone (to my recollection, the only reoccurring character in this one was Death, and only briefly), Guards! Guards! is the first in a sub-series focussing on the characters of Ankh-Morpork’s Night Watch guardsmen. I haven’t read Pyramids […]

“This is how it works, with people who wield abuse like a knife and convince us they’re cutting us with love.”

The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix

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CBR17 Bingo: O – The title starts with O. When Ranka is sent south to fulfill a treaty between humans and witches by wedding the crown prince, she goes only so that she can try to bring the system down from the inside. But as she gets to know Galen and his twin sister, the brilliant and beautiful Princess Aramis, she begins to realize that the truth about the conflict between their people may be different than what she’s always believed. What I really enjoyed […]

I lean towards Little Ghost

Little Ghost House Hunts by Lucy Branam

All Hallows' Eve by Anthony DeStefano

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If you are new here, or to my reviews, let me tell you: I like Halloween. However, I do not like the spooky or horror or gross, but the fun, candy getting, costume wearing part. I also like reading Halloween books, especially for kids. The novel The Halloween Tree has some great moments for the 10 to adult reader, but there is nothing like a picture book. And recently, I found two picture books (read on line, currently available) that are very different from each […]

Baby Blue your friends got you

Baby Blue by Bim Eriksson

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Baby Blue by Bim Eriksson and translator Melissa Bowers was another one of those books I looked at the cover of and said, “Why did I request this?” (As I got it through my library). I don’t remember why, but as I sit here typing this review, I think it probably is getting some attention for the fact it is pretty awesome (if not a “What did I read?” and one of the more odd reads of the year so far) book. I think it […]

The girl you really are

The October Girl Volume One by Matthew Dow Smith

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When I was reading The October Girl Volume One by Matthew Dow Smith I was not sure what I was going to write about. Therefore, the day I wrote this I was thinking how I read and finished other books after, even publishing reviews. And here I was still mulling over a fairly on the surface, easy story. A book that should not have given me any trouble writing about. Things hit me in an odd way. The story is somewhat familiar (a lost princess, […]

A good book for the right reader

Travel Light by Naomi Mitchinson

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When my daughter asked “Are there any girls in this story?” during our reading of The Hobbit, I set out to find a book with girls and dragons where the girl isn’t just along for the ride. I came across Naomi Mitchison. I wouldn’t be surprised if other Cannonballers are familiar with Mitchison, but I had never heard of her! She was an extremely prolific (over 90 books!) contemporary of Tolkein, who, among other things: …was able to write anywhere, which helped because – as […]



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