Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Grab Bag #2

Yearbook by Seth Rogen

Will by Will Smith and Mark Manson

Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

End of Watch by Stephen King

Runnin' With the Devil by Noel E. Monk with Joe Layden

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

Last Guard Out by Jim Albright

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I am falling so far behind on reviews it’s time for another grab bag! You may look at this list and say “Wow, Tyler (not my real name), you are all over the place with genres!” To which I reply in my best Scar/Jeremy Irons voice “You have no idea.” I tend to be mercurial with my interests and obsessions and just go wherever the whim takes me. Also whatever I see that looks interesting at the library because we are blessed to have a […]

I am getting E.A. Poe vibes here….

Forever Maps by Michael Lagace

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cbr14bingo Gaslight Level 2 Forever Maps could fit several of the categories, but I am picking Gaslight as this is a book started in the late 1770’s and ends “now” (or at the very least sometime after the late 1940’s), There are horses and carriages are sent to fetch people, with cars only show up at the end. There are traveling salesmen who go to trading post after western store, and a character who is a cruel, perhaps even evil, but truly sad, liar. Michael […]

Into the Sublime

Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.  Well the cover was great. After that….this book was a whole big miss. I was tempted to give it 2 stars because at least I finished it, but honestly I struggled. I almost DNFed this book multiple times. Nothing makes sense in the end and none of the characters were developed at all. And then the ending, whatever to that. “Into the Sublime” follows Amelie Desmarais who is […]

Hell is Here

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

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There is a lot going on within the pages of Hello Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. I will say that some of the bumps for me come from three main things. First and second are the version I read was an online reader copy. This is hard for me to read in this format and there were some major editing issues with whole two to four paragraphs being literally repeated. The final is it is a first novel, and therefore has some vanity […]

Nature of the Game

Horns by Joe Hill

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On a chilly summer morning, one year after the brutal murder of his girlfriend Merrin, Ig Parrish wakes up to find that two small horns have sprouted from his head. He is puzzled as to why they are there, but when he goes to ask people what to do about them they suddenly tell him their deepest, darkest desires. A doctor confesses he’d like to grind up some oxy and snort it. A cop tells him he‘d like to shoot him in the face because […]

Modern nostalgia

Bunnicula: The Graphic Novel by James Howe

Wait Till Helen Comes Graphic Novel by Mary Downing Hahn

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My 1980’s childhood called and wants its books back. Or at least, it wants to share with you two treasured favorites of mine now in a graphic novel format. Bunnicula and Wait Till Helen Comes are two books I still recommend today. They are “safe” for a younger reader, but still have the edge of a modern reader. Bunnicula: The Graphic Novel by James Howe, Andrew Donkin, and illustrations by Stephen Gilpin is what you loved as a kid now in a graphic novel format. […]



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