Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Chloe, Maude and Sandra

Chloe and Maude, by Sandra Boynton

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Chloe and Maude, written and illustrated by Sandra Boynton, is a cute early reader in the line of Frog and Toad or other best friend silliness. The art of Boynton has all the feels she is known for. This is a collection of a handful of short stories that include two besties, Chloe and Maude. They do best friend things, have fun, even pretend. For the adult reader, things are oversimplified and repetitive, but this is good for the early/starting to read solo reader and/or […]

Puppets Alive!

The Shadow Glass by Josh Winning

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The Shadow Glass follows Jack Corman, the son of a film director who is famous (but like cult movie famous) for a 1986 all-puppet fantasy film.  A hero and visionary to the film’s fans, Jack’s childhood growing up with his father Bob, was way less magical than anything that happened in the movie.  But now his estranged father is dead, and Jack sees a way to get himself out of debt (or start to) by utilizing his access to his father’s collection of film memorabilia, […]

The Scholomance Trilogy (and a Short Story)

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

The Answer Is No by Fredrik Backman

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What would you do if you were basically in a dark version of Hogwarts, where the semi-sentient school barely cares if you live, and you can’t leave for 4 years? If you’re El, short for Galadriel, you spend the first 2. 5 years of that letting your prickly, angry, bitter exterior prevent anyone from getting close to you. This is where A Deadly Education starts off, about halfway through El’s junior year at the Scholomance. We find out over the course of the novel why […]

Attack of the Fiend

Attack of the Fiend by Joseph Delaney

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“I see your future clearly. Your master will be dead, and you will be alone. It would be better if you had never been born.” Honestly, this to me was the book that really has things set into motion that I assume will play out across the series. We start off with Tom finding out that his family has been attacked, and the trunks his mam left her have been stolen. If you read the last book, you find out that his mam did something […]

Night of the Soul Stealer

Night of the Soul Stealer by Joseph Delaney

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I finally got back to “The Last Apprentice” series. Yes, I am just drowning myself in fantasy novels right now because the United States has become a hellscape. This is the third book in the series, and Tom Ward has been with the Spook for about a year at this point. Tom, the Spook, and Alice have grown comfortable together (or slightly) until the Spook tells him that they need to travel to his winter home in Anglezarke and that Alice needs to stay with […]

Yet another once-promising series traveling an unfortunate path

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

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I came late to the Empyrean saga by Rebecca Yarros. I just read the first two installments, Fourth Wing and Iron Flame, about a month ago when I found them on Kindle Unlimited. Of course I’d seen them all over BookTok for the last couple of years, but I’d just never gotten around to reading them. The more people raved about them, the more resistant I became. (Honestly, I still haven’t read ACOTAR for much the same reason.) I thoroughly enjoyed Fourth Wing. I raced […]



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