Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Get your wolf on

Willa the Werewolf: A Fractured Fairy Tale V01 by Michele McAvoy

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cbr15bingo. In the Wild: Willa is a shifter, she is a Pig by Day and a Wild WereWolf-Pig at night in the wild world of Paris Fashion! The abstract realism to the illustrations of Willa the Werewolf: A Fractured Fairy Tale V01  was not something I enjoyed. Jan Dolby’s effort, I appreciate, but the results did not work for me. However, I can see how people would like the goofy, passionate, and sweet character of Willa, and how her world unfolds because of them. Her […]

The Inventor of Leggings? I believe it!

Pat in the City by Patricia Field

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Currently Patricia Field is known as the costuming consultant for the Netflix show Emily in Paris, Emily might be ridiculous but her clothes are divine. Her name may also be familiar from her work on The Devil Wears Prada, Younger, and Ugly Betty. She was the one who put Carrie Bradshaw in a tutu for Sex and the City. But for this little teen girl from the suburbs in the 90s Patricia Field was the name emblazoned across one of the coolest shops in the […]

June 2022 Leftovers

The Cage by Bonnie Kistler

Gangsterland by Tod Goldberg

Gone 'Til November by Wallace Stroby

Cover Story by Susan Rigetti

Survivor's Guilt by Robyn Gigl

The Old Man by Thomas Perry

Iron Annie by Luke Cassidy

The Drop by Michael Connelly

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw

Barbed Wire Heart by Tess Sharpe

Amateur City by Katherine V. Forrest

Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

The Fury of Blacky Jaguar by Angel Luis Colón

He Kills Coppers by Jake Arnott

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

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I was dealing with work turmoil and on vacation for most of June so I didn’t get the chance to write as many in depth reviews as I’d have liked to. Which is a shame because some of these deserved a longer look; I just didn’t have the time or energy… The Cage **** I went back-and-forth on my review. I’ve been giving out a lot of 4-star reviews lately and considered docking the book for that reason since it’s very borderline. But the more I […]

Perfect hijabs, perfect story

Hana’s Hundreds of Hijabs by Razeena Omar Gutta

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When you have a hobby, you know it can sometimes get out of hand, shall we say? And Hana’s hobby in Hana’s Hundreds of Hijabs is fashion! It is making hijabs sparkle and shine with the goodies she finds in her grandmother’s jewelry box and things found at her aunt’s hair salon. But things are getting out of control and are taking over nooks and crannies she did not know the family home had! When she learns about a way to share her talents, and […]

So, I read this book and these are my thoughts on it

Lifetime Passes by Terry Blas

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I read about Lifetime Passes by Terry Blas. I then said I had to get a copy. Therefore, since I work at a bookstore and was sitting at my desk with extremely convenient access to the tools needed to make said order, I ordered a copy. A few days later, said book came in. My coworker thought the concept of getting lifetime passes to the Disney-like amusement park central to the plot of this graphic novel (by getting a “old person” to die while they […]

Truly a perfect fit

A Perfect Fit: How Lena “Lane” Bryant Changed the Shape of Fashion by Mara Rockliff

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Growing up I looked at my mother’s Lane Bryant catalog and think, “What a bunch of old lady clothes.” (I do not believe I had hit double numbers yet.) As I got older, I learned to appreciate the fact that it was hard for plus sized women to find clothing. Any kind of clothing, let alone nice and professional. And Lane Bryant helped my mom be as fabulous on the outside as she was inside. I would go on and buy things from there myself […]



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