Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A boring introduction to a series with a lot of potential

Magic Steps by Tamora Pierce

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BINGO – OLD SERIES (originally published in 2000) Sandry has been living with her uncle, the Duke of Emelan, ever since he had a heart attack a few months ago. Her teacher is still at Winding Circle, and all of her friends are travelling around the world with their teachers. For the first time since joining Discipline Cottage at Winding Circle Temple, Sandry is without her chosen family. But she has plenty to keep her busy like helping her uncle run the Kingdom in his weakened […]

So is the devil a bad guy or not? Do I even care?

Slewfoot by Brom

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BINGO – The Wilds We all know this story: Puritan community in the Northeast turns on a local woman accused of witchcraft because she’s different. The woman and her husband live way on the outskirts of the village practically in the woods themselves, and the entire think them both a little off. The overall set up of this novel is not new. However what sets this story apart from others is that there isn’t unfounded hysteria. The protagonist Abitha is in fact cavorting with a […]

Formula Still Works

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

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BINGO: Flora – Apple tree Best for: Fans of the genre. In a nutshell: Joy and Stan have four children, and have recently retired from running a tennis school. All of them have played tennis competitively, though none still play professionally as adults. Last year, a stranger appeared at their door, and Joy and Stan took her in. Six months later, the stranger has been gone for a bit, and Joy has gone missing. Worth quoting: “It happened all the time. Talented kids turned into […]

A Whale Would Not Be the Strangest Thing in the Endless Universe – It Gets Stranger

The Dreaming, Volume 1: Pathways and Emanations by Simon Spurrier

The Dreaming, Volume 2: Empty Shells by Simon Spurrier

The Dreaming, Volume. 3: One Magic Movement by Simon Spurrier

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  It’s The Sandman! I love The Sandman. How did I end up putting a Sandman based property on my White Whale list? I guess The Dreaming ended up a bit on the White Whale side for two reasons: 1) When I read the original Sandman series about ten years ago, I binge read them over a few nights. This helped to both keep my immersion in the series and follow the plot. The original could be confusing as all hell at times. 2) I […]

I miss going on vacations

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

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3.5 stars CBR13 Bingo: Travel Official book description: Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, […]

What a fantastic ending to a phenomenal series!

Briar's Book by Tamora Pierce

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BINGO – Pandemic (I know this category is a catch-all, read-what-you-want category, but this book is also about a pandemic) SUMMARY – Oh boy, what a book to read during a pandemic. Briar Moss and his teacher Rosethorn head to the city in order to provide healing services to the sick there. Briar, a former street kid, can’t help but give special attention to all the homeless, poor children while there. While attending to the street kids in the Mire, the poorest part of the […]



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