Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Vir2ous if O4ly Long

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

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It’s the mid eighties, the land of Stranger Things nostalgia, and eight year old Victoria ‘Vic’ McQueen (aka The Brat) has just discovered something interesting: if she hops on her bike and cycles through to a certain spot in the woods by the river, a magic bridge will appear. Whenever something has been lost all Vic has to do is cross the bridge and she will end up where the lost object is. But something else is lost as well: across the country, young children […]

The spirit of the season is never never too late to read about

Red and Green and Blue and White by Lee Wind

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HannAfter I finished reading, Red and Green and Blue and White, I realized I have read it at least once before. It is a quiet book and one that did not seem to hit “hard” on mine, or I would assume a lot of peoples, radar after it first came out. Yet, it is a nice find regardless of when you do find Lee Wind’s holiday picture book. The two main characters are celebrating Christmas and Hanukkah when this based on a true incident starts. […]

Holiday fluff

Dear Santa by Debbie Macomber

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In the spirit of the holidays, I decided to pick up a fluffy holiday romance that we just got in at our library.  I don’t know if I’ve ever read anything by Debbie Macomber, but it was… fine.  It always seems more apparent when listening to audiobooks than reading when an author repeats phrases often, or when language gets a bit awkward, but this author churns out a ton of books, so I suppose that can be forgiven.  It was nice that this didn’t have […]

Happy Holliday’s With a Couple Yummy books

Jan Brett’s the Nutcracker by Jan Brett

Peyton Picks the Perfect Pie: A Thanksgiving Celebration by America’s Text Kitchen Kids

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I was mentioning to a coworker that if you wanted to count how many different versions of a story there are, he should be looking at The Nutcracker as he had mentioned he was going to count how many different versions of Charles Dicken’s Christmas Carol came in. Soon after that, Jan Brett’s The Nutcracker came onto the scene. And of course, I had to read. With a few differences (Mouse King vs. Rat King or Mouse/Rat Queen are the big differences I have noticed) […]

“What about me doesn’t feel real?”

The Inn on Sweetbriar Lane by Jeannie Chin

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Every once in a while I get an itch for a small town romance, but the lack of diversity and the suspension of disbelief (sure, every small town can support a cupcake bakery and a bookstore and a yarn shop and a cute coffee shop and…) can get a bit grating. But this book? It scratches that small town itch while addressing those issues, plus has a pretty fun enemies-to-lovers angle. After a tragic incident that left him wounded, Clay has arrived in the small […]

Another small-town, second-chance Christmas romance

No Ordinary Christmas by Belle Calhoune

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It’s no secret that I love second chance romances and holiday romances, so one that combined the two? Should’ve been a homerun. Unfortunately, while there was quite a bit of both that worked, the book overall didn’t hit well for me. Dante and Lucy grew up together in the little town of Mistletoe, Maine. They’d been childhood friends and then in a relationship, until he unexpectedly took off for California, throwing away all their careful plans for the future. In the almost nine years since, he’s […]



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