Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Hoo boy, does this book bring the creep!

Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

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Vera Crowder has A Past. A Past filled with things that are Very Bad. When she gets the call from her mother to come home, Vera very much does not want to…but she goes home anyway. Her mother, Daphne, is dying, and needs Vera to help clean up/sort through/clean out the house. The house, which is a living museum to Vera’s father, Francis – plexiglass screwed down over tabletops and carpets, everything perfectly preserved. Daphne also wants Vera to make nice with James Duvall, an […]

Boooooo Trash DON’T

The October Country by Ray Bradbury

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This was a Did Not Finish, on account of I hated it. Hokay, so, The October Country. This is a collection of Bradbury short stories, and the first one is about a dwarf (it’s called, inventively, “The Dwarf”) who is a regular at a carnival with a house of mirrors where there’s a room where he can see himself as tall, and of course that’s all he wants to do and isn’t it so self-evident that it’s grotesque and he’s grotesque and he couldn’t possibly […]

Mothered

Mothered by Zoje Stage

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Great horror/thrilled by Stage. I loved the set-up of this, several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, a woman’s life (Grace) seems to be coming apart, and things go from bad to worse when her mother (Jackie) moves in. Only reason why I didn’t give this 5 stars was that the flow of the book. I think when the dreams started coming hard and fast you weren’t given enough […]

Contains more teeth than you can imagine

Bright World (The Hazards of Love #1) by Stan Stanley

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Title from online review   Bright World (The Hazards of Love #1) by Stan Stanley is dark, odd, sexy, thoughtful, spooky, serious, humorous, and much more. The path of love is never easy, especially when a talking cat tricks you out of your life and you are tossed into a magical realm where humans are snacks, slaves or worse. Gorgeous illustrations that are both overly busy and simple, will amaze and create unease as you flow through the story of a non-binary teen and what […]

Horrorstor

Horrostor by Grady Hendrix

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This was a great little send up of not only haunted places, haunted buildings, and ghosts, it was done in a clever way by having it happen in the American version of a lesser IKEA. I ended up liking all of the characters very much and really liked the backstory on the site of the Orsk furniture store. The main reason why I didn’t give this one 5 stars is that the book started to drag after a while and also thought the ending was […]

Garden Spells

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

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Updated review: September 12, 2022 I really enjoyed this re-read. I didn’t love the second book in the series as much, but this first one still gives me all the feels. Allen does such a great job of depicting the two sisters and I loved all of the people who lived in Bascom and the “gifts” so many had.  Original review: Funny, I love this book, but honestly don’t remember the last time I read it. After finishing “Garden Spells” I went and read book […]



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