Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A complex fantasy with many stories woven together

Aunt Tigress by Emily Yu-Xuan Qin

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I was immediately drawn to Aunt Tigress by the cover, and the synopsis had me intrigued. Tam is a young woman living in Calgary where the magic from her tiger father is weak because it’s far from the forces she calls on for exorcisms and other magics, but she also knows to respect the magic of First Nations without trying to steal it. Or at least, that’s what her father tried to teach her before he died when she was 12, and her Aunt Tigress […]

The other series that gives you goosebumps

You're Invited to a Creepover V03 Ready for a Scare? The Graphic Novel by P.J. Night

You're Invited to a Creepover V04 The Show Must Go On! the Graphic Novel by P.J. Night

You're Invited to a Creepover V05 There's Something Out There the Graphic Novel by P.J. Night

You're Invited to a Creepover V06 Best Friends Forever the Graphic Nove by P.J. Night

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Time for the other series that will give you more goosebumps! Ready for a Scare? The Graphic Novel Volume 3: You’re Invited to a Creepover by P.J. Night and illustrated by Glass House Graphics is for the Goosebump books lover who also likes graphic novels. Or for the reader who wants something “creepy” but is not ready for something like Five Nights of Freddy or an older read. Things can be a smidgen spooky (after all there are over the computer  seances,  the death of […]

It’s Brutal Out Here (Or “Saw for rich people”)

Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson

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This book contains a list of trigger warnings at the start, and the author notes that she experienced childhood sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking and rape.  And that she writes through the lens of survivors’ rage.  And yes.  This book is full of rage, I really can not stress enough that this is an angry book.   Dez Lane is not rich.  She has dreams and wants to make her mark in the fashion world but her lack of capital is hindering her. She just needs […]

Is The House Haunted?

I'll Be Waiting by Kelley Armstrong

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Or is it the people who are left behind that are the ones being haunted? Let’s break out the Ouija board and get to the bottom of this! Nicola and Anton are determined to savor their limited time together. Having been diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis as a child, Nicola had come to terms with one day leaving her husband behind. But months after their wedding they are in a terrible car accident and it is Anton’s life that is cut short. His last words to […]

Let the Right One In

The Outsider by Stephen King

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A young boy is found violated and viciously murdered in a small town in the American heartland. Police inspector Ralph Anderson soon finds his prime suspect: baseball trainer Terry Maitland has been seen by multiple witnesses, his clothes covered in blood. His fingerprints are all over the place. Ralph, sure he has the right man, goes in to arrest Terry in front of the entire town. The only problem is that Terry seems to have an iron-clad alibi. So why was he in two places […]

Fresh scares from a needed perspective

Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories by Dan SaSuWeh Jones

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Readers who have been craving a selection of tales reminiscent of Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark should look no further than Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories, compiled by Ponca storyteller Dan SaSuWeh Jones.  Jones is a busy guy: he is a writer, producer, and artist; he’s worked as an Imagineer for Disney and produced for Sesame Street; he is a sculptor, a former Chairman of the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, and he assembled this creepy collection of […]



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