Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston

Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston

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“Sounds Like Love” has Joni Lark (yes that is her name) feeling out of sorts while at a concert listening to a singer sing one of the songs that she wrote. Joni is a song-writer though lately she hasn’t been writing anything. Instead she partly dreads and is looking forward to returning to her hometown in North Carolina to spend time with her family and best friend. Joni though realizes that not only is her family and friends, and the musical hall her family owns […]

A half-baked Taylor Swift fanfiction

Famous (A Famous novel, Book 1) by Jenny Holiday

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Bingo square: Arts The MMC is an art professor and a painter. The FMC is a musician. Evan Winslow is an art professor at a liberal arts college in Dane, Iowa. After his father is exposed as an art fraud just as Evan was starting out as a painter, Evan fights to regain a scrap of respectability in the art world. He is a talented painter, but does not paint as he fears inviting comparisons between his father’s shady business and his own art. Despite […]

This book has been 16 years on my TBR list, and I don’t think I added it until a few years after it came out

The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

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3.5 stars StoryGraph Easy Read Challenge: A book with flowers, plants or leaves on the cover Buzzword Title Challenge 25: Animals (Birds are animals, right?) Nowhere Book Bingo 2025: A YA book CBR17 Bingo: TBR (I bought this back in 2009, it’s been on my TBR for 16 years) Anidora-Kiladra, the Crown Princess of Kildenree is taught the language of animals by her aunt while she is still a girl, but she has to hide this from people around her. Unfortunately, she’s unconventional enough that […]

An Intriguing Beginning

Dinghai Fusheng Records Vol. 1 by Lv Fei

Dinghai Fusheng Records Vol. 2 by Lv Fei

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Chen Xing is the last Great Exorcist, charged with protecting the world from a demonic entity.  He’s also all of sixteen and expects to die on his twentieth birthday.  Setting off to find his counterpart, the “Protector Martial God”, things aren’t exactly going as planned.  His “Protector Martial God” turns out to be a mysterious man with a possibly criminal past that wants nothing to do with him.  Drought Fiends are popping up all over the place and seems like sinister magic is afoot. This […]

A Delightful Queer Romantasy

Prince of Fortune by Lisa Tirreno

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It has been foreseen many times that Prince Edmund is going to be a great king.  Which is a lot of pressure on a young man who’d rather spend his time with plants versus people.  He is a Prince of Fortune blessed with earth and weather magic and expected to great things.  Lord Aubrey Ainsley is a seer who barely qualifies as nobility.  Excited to experience court for the first time, neither he nor anyone else expected that he and Prince Edmund would become friends […]

A Fitting End to a Fun Trilogy

Capture the Sun by Jessie Mihalik

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Lexi Bowen doesn’t trust easily which has served her well in her line of work.  She’s been betrayed enough times to know she can count on herself and her crew, and that’s about it.  The last thing she wants to do is work with Nilo Shoren, the teleported who stole her job the first time they met.  But when Tavi and the rest of the crew go missing, the two will have to work together in order to rescue them and keep another war from […]



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