Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Odd little review for a cool book

The Pocket Guide To LGBTQIA+ Identities by Queer Haven Books

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I try not to review books that are not easy to get, but sometimes I must. This just means you, other dear readers, need to find a library, interlibrary loan or a preloved website or shop. But rarely (if ever) does that mean to go to a specific bookstore because I have never seen it anywhere else.  Queer Haven Books is (according to their website) South Carolina’s only independent, queer bookstore. Shop Queer Haven Books for books, sit down with a cup of coffee, read […]

Monsters live

Janus Silang and the Creature of Tabon volume one in the Janus Silang Saga by Edgar Calabia Samar

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Janus Silang and the Creature of Tabon volume one in the Janus Silang Saga by Edgar Calabia Samar, Natasha Ringor (Illustrator), and Carljoe Javier as the adaptor is more of a 2.5 than a two. There was this “niggle” as I was reading saying, “This is good, pay attention.” But another part of me was saying, “you are so missing something about this book” and therefore I cannot give it a 3 but also, there was too much I did like to just give a […]

Time Travel, Court Intrigue, and Revenge

A Bright Heart by Kate Chenli

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Betrayed by the man she loved and who she helped gain the throne, Mingshin faces her death wishing for a second chance.  Then she wakes up two years in the past and is determined to get revenge on Prince Ren and foil his plans.  And to never risk her heart again.  But as Mingshin makes new plans and allies, she finds herself working closely with Prince Jieh.  And finds herself torn between keeping her heart safe or taking a chance that this time she won’t […]

It’s corn! (I can tell you all about it)

What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell

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When best friends Sadie and Logan stumble across a strange corn maze out of season, they decide to venture inside on a lark. But when they stumble across what appear to be their own murdered bodies, they discover that they have become trapped in a time loop with a murderer on their heels. Thank you dreadpiratekel for putting this book on my radar – their review mentioned monsters made of corn, time loops, and all the way in which toxic people suck, and I was […]

Nick and Charlie are in love. Still.

Heartstopper volume 5: A Graphic Novel by Alice Oseman

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Heartstopper volume 5: A Graphic Novel by Alice Oseman is more of the same with the characters Nick, Charlie, their family and their friends. While we focus on Nick and Charlie (as the other volumes have done) Oseman has added a few areas that are “outside” of the boy’s knowledge (such as there is a flashback with Charlie’s mom and one with a teacher), and there are a few areas that are just “Nick focused” or just “Charlie focused” as usual. There are some sexual […]

This school has spirit

Spirited V02 Go, Ghoul, Go! by Liv Livingston

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The one thing I have with sequels is that if I read them too far apart, I forget parts of book one/the book(s) before. And that happened with  Spirited V02 Go, Ghoul, Go! by Liv Livingston and Glass House Graphics. I mean, I remembered that Liv is the only living person (if you don’t count the werewolves and creatures of the swamp and such, I don’t count vampires) in a school of mostly ghosts. I remembered that she has two good friends, a “mean-girl” in […]



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