Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

True Story that is reminiscent of Handmaid’s Tale

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler

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Cbr11bingo True Story This book was recommended to me by a friend who was adopted and it is an amazing and powerful book. It’s the kind of book that breaks your heart and makes you angry. When we talk of “choice” and women, we generally think of the choice to have an abortion, but this book reveals a different kind of choice that was denied to countless young women and girls in the decades between WWII and Roe v. Wade — the choice to keep […]

I think the marketing people should find other books to compare this book to

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

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3.5 stars #CBR11 Bingo: Youths! From Goodreads: Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death.  When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when […]

And So It Begins

What Angels Fear by C.S. Harris

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#CBR11 Book Bingo: And So It Begins From Goodreads, because it’s nearly three months since I finished this baby: It’s 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III’s England. Then a beautiful young woman is found raped and savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol discovered at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman […]

Matchstick Girl

Firestarter by Stephen King

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CBR Bingo category: Birthday (Stephen King, born September 21, 1947) Firestarter feels very much like it could be one of the inspirations behind Stranger Things. A young woman has special abilities thanks to government experiments gone wrong and the government does everything it can to keep her under its control. Charlene “Charlie” McGee is the product of an unlikely marriage. Her mother and father signed up for an experiment in college because they each needed the $200 pretty badly. The mysterious drug known as Lot […]

Miss Fancy meets Frank

Meet Miss Fancy by Irene Latham

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#cbr11bingo #Youth Over all, Meet Miss Fancy is an amazing fictional story about the real elephant, Miss Fancy. Irene Latham brings to life the story of an elephant and a young boy with the wish of one day being near a real elephant. The illustrations of John Holyfield not only bring to life the history of the time in fun, sweet, colorful, and realistic images, but brings to life the text as well. There is an afterwards by the author and illustrator. The only part […]

“When you write and draw in pencil, your eraser is your best friend.” ― Anthony T.Hincks

When Pencil Met Eraser by Karen Kilpatrick

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#cbr11bingo #Illustrated I was not sure about When Pencil Met Eraser as it looked like another odd couple story. And, it pretty much is that. The characters of Pencil and Eraser created by Karen Kilpatrick and Luis O. Ramos, Jr are complete opposites, and that means what you think it means. There is a little tension between these two at first. Pencil likes to draw lines, shapes and keep creating. Eraser likes to make some empty space that it feels enhances the image (such as […]



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