Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Writing from the middle…

It's Not Supposed To Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered by Lysa TerKeurst

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One of my hesitations with books in the genre of “Read this when your life is falling apart; I was in the same place, and this is how everything miraculously got better”, is that I find them to be discouraging while you’re actually in the middle of a life crisis of your own. I don’t want to hear about the lessons you learned when life turned around, because what if my story doesn’t end that way. If there’s no end to the pain that I’m […]

Dystopia Now

When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

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This is the ultimate 3 vs. 4 star test for me. In a rare instance of compromise, I decided to sleep on the review, rather than post right away as is my habit. I finished it late last night and didn’t want to stare at the computer before bed. When I went to bed, it was a 4. I woke up (heh), thinking it was a 3. And now, as I sit down, nearly 24 hours after finishing it…I’m giving it a 4. With major […]

God Bless the Gargoyles and us, too

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I absolutely love the illustrations in God Bless the Gargoyles. Dav Pilkey has stepped away from his more humorous stories and gone a spiritual and Christian route. The nod to a famous painting also is a neat treat. While the story is religious (the Church, the story of gargoyles and angels), it is not “in your face” overly religious. It is more of a spiritual story. However yet, it is not for a non-believer.   I would have like more history of the gargoyle. It […]

Making of a Saint (spoilers ahoy!)

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This review has spoilers for both this book and Camber of Culdi. I’m sorry, but as book two in a trilogy, it really can’t be helped much. The fact that Camber becomes a saint in this book is a spoiler, but the title gives it away, and as these books are prequels of sorts to the other trilogies, it’s not much of a spoiler, as some of the other titles in the other trilogies give away the fact that Camber is a major player in Gwynedd’s […]

Christianity and Magic? It’s An Interesting Combination

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When I was a young kid there was an amazing used bookstore in town. The bookstore smelled of used books, books were stacked waist high in spots, and the shelves were so close together, and so tall that to see the top shelf, you had to press your back against the next shelf and crane your head way back. Books were a dollar a piece, and if you brought books to trade you could get store credit, so you didn’t have to pay anything at […]

The Big Bang

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Previously on Supernatural…            Katie: It’s 9:45 p.m. my time when I check my phone and see a series of messages from Patty demanding my immediate attention. Like 10 of them. Since I had spoken with her for 45 minutes earlier in the evening, I decided this deserved another phone call since she was obviously still awake. Patty: I WILL NOT BE IGNORED. Katie: I call her, and that’s when I hear excited yankee babbling with a hint of Colombian, “I want you to keep an […]



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