Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Even supervillains love their kids

The Complete Runaways Vol. 1 (1-18) by Brian K. Vaughn

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The Runaways has always been on my to-do list ever since my husband read them and raved about it. Unfortunately, I tried watching a few episodes the TV adaptation and my interest cooled. Since then it’s just been sitting on my  “get around to it eventually” list. Enter Rainbow Rowell. She did what she always does and motivated me to actually do the thing. Everywhere I turn, her run of the Runaways is racking up praise and I, being the completionist I am, decided that […]

The Way The Music Died

Chaos: Charles Manson, The CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring

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Read as part of CBR11 Bingo: Beach Read I view conspiracy theories the same way agnostics view God: if a conspiracy existed, it would have to be quite large and involve an incredible amount of competent people who are both good and lucky and have incentives to keep their mouths shut. Thus, that makes conspiracies unlikely…but not impossible. I don’t submit to 9/11 conspiracy theories but even now, I still can’t fully accept that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone gunman. I don’t know. Anyway, […]

“This wasn’t my first rodeo in Unrequited Land. In fact, I had a season pass.”

To Be Honest by Maggie Ann Martin

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CBR11Bingo – Summer Reads! Savannah’s older sister is off to college, and she’s not sure how she is going to survive without her. Ashley has always been the peacekeeper between Savannah and her mother, especially since their parent’s divorce and their mom’s follow-up stint on a reality show called “Shake the Weight.”  Since mom’s return home, she keeps pushing her new “healthy” lifestyle on her daughters, and Savannah has no interest in following the philosophy of the body-shaming show that body-snatched her mother. Plus, it’s […]

Jasper Fforde does YA fantasy, and it works! #CBRBingo – YOUTHS!

The Last Dragonslayer (The Last Dragonslayer, #1) by Jasper Fforde

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I liked this quite a bit! And so I’ve started yet another Jasper Fforde series. I have yet to finish one, either because of my own reading preferences or because, well—actually none of his series are finished. He keeps dangling a ninth Thursday Next (I still need to read seven and eight), the third Nursery Crime book will seemingly never be written (why), we seem to never be getting Shades of Grey‘s promised two sequels, and this one has a fourth book that who even […]

Read this and you’ve picked a winner

The Lottery: Graphic Novel by Shirley Jackson

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#cbr11bingo #BacktoSchool There might be a few spoilers if you are not familiar with Shirley Jackson’s work, The Lottery. I have read Shirley Jackson’s book, The Lottery, at least once. Probably more as she is a Vermont author that is known for being from a town south of me; therefore, teachers feel the need to introduce her into the curriculum at some point. I always got the basic elements of the story: there is a lottery in a small town. For what, you are not […]

Finally getting around to a series I’ve had on my TBR for ten years. #CBRBingo – Reading the TBR

Goblin Quest (Jig the Goblin, #1) by Jim C. Hines

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Somehow I’ve ended up reading all of Jim C. Hines’s series in reverse publication order. Jig the Goblin is the last series of his I have to read, and the first published. It’s definitely not as polished or witty as I found his later books, and perhaps I’m missing something because I don’t play Dungeons & Dragons, but it was a fun time anyway. Having read a shit ton of fantasy in my day, I felt I could still appreciate it. Plus, I get to […]



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