Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

And you thought your Nanny was a strict monster!

The Sleepover: A Graphic Novel by Michael Regina

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cbr17bingo Black (the cover is mostly black and dark colors) The graphic novel, The Sleepover: A Graphic Novel by Michael Regina, reminds me of the RL Stine Goosebumps series or the Are You Afraid of the Dark? Series (or something similar as I know there are several thriller/horror reads out there).  Things are spooky, but not necessarily over the top, but also things are not for the sensitive reader. It deals with grief (death of a caregiver who was like a grandmother to the family), […]

A Cozy Mystery That Will Make You Drool

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutano

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Vera Wong may be an old lady, but that doesn’t mean she’s slowed down. She’s up every morning before the sun rises to take her daily walk and send her grown son a good morning text. (Just to make sure that he’s up and ask whether he has a girlfriend yet.) He doesn’t often text her back, but that’s ok, because Vera has things to do. She owns and operates Vera Wang’s World Famous Teahouse in the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown, and has to […]

“How wonderful! I, too, am filled with an encroaching dread over my own mortality.”

Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune

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“Don’t you wish you were here?” Arthur Parnassus, headmaster of an orphanage for magical children, has got a reasonably good life going on. His life on a small island with the love of his life Linus Baker, the local sprite Zoe Chapelwhite, her girlfriend Helen Webb, and the six wonderful children whose adoptive father he is desperately wanting to become. However, when the government branch in charge of magical beings raise their heads to investigate the island, and a new child comes to the island […]

If I was wrong, I’d probably be dead, and that was bad enough. Being stupid and dead would just be that much worse.

Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries #6) by Martha Wells

Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries #5) by Martha Wells

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Fugitive Telemetry Gurathin sighed and rubbed his face and looked off into the distance, like he regretted all his life choices that had led to him standing here right now. ― Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry I read these books one after the other. Even after reading them both, I’m not sure which is the correct order since I read Network Effect first, followed by Fugitive Telemetry. I think perhaps I should have read Fugitive Telemetry first, but reading it after Network Effect didn’t spoil anything. […]

What kind of pastry are you?

The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong

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It’s cold outside my friends. Let’s snuggle up under the covers with a cup of something warm and this lovely cozy fantasy. I think I’d be a simple chocolate brownie, super sweet and delightfully squishy. Tao is a traveling fortune teller, drifting from village to village in a wagon pulled by her trusty mule Laohu. It’s a solitary life made less lonely when a small fortune causes a former thief and an ex-mercenary to join her in her travels as they search for a lost […]

There’s a magical home for everyone, even if you stopped looking

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

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The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune is worthy of all the hype. Linus works for a government agency that manages magical children. He is essentially a social worker. He sticks to himself and follows the rules to the letter. How else can he minimize conflict in his life? He lives alone with his cat and is rather ordinary if you ask him. He isn’t quite coasting more like he doesn’t want to upset the order. He absolutely does not want to garner […]



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