Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Dewdrop by Katie O’Neill

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I am on the fence about Katie O’Neill. I have not disliked anything I have read, but I am also not “OMG MY FAVORITE EVER” author. There is a certain charm that O’Neill has that comes across in what I have read. Even when there is “scary adventure” it is still comforting. She seems like she might be your favorite aunt. Or that fun neighbor that becomes like an aunt/grandmother to you. And that charm is continued in their picture book, Dewdrop. This is just […]

OMG I’m a Crow!

Arlo & Pips: Kings of the Birds by Elise Gravel

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Do you want to have fun while learning about crows? Then, I cannot recommend Arlo & Pips: Kings of the Birds by Elise Gravel enough. Done in story format, we have two birds (Arlo the crow and one little yellow bird who goes by Pips) who meet one day. After a lot of bragging by Arlo, Pips learns this is one of the traits of crows. Pips and the reader learn other fun facts about crows such as the loving of shiny objects (hey! I’m […]

She “needs pictures on her face.”

Cursed by Karol Ruth Silverstein

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I am going to use for my cbr12bingo Reader’s Choice option for Nostalgia. And really this book could have been set when I was a teen (even if there are cell phones in this book). The tone of the story has that feeling of freedom most parents gave kids “back then.” That free-range parenting. The fact the parents are divorced has that feeling of  this is a new thing and “just coming to light” in a more open and less “((whisper)) So and So just got […]

“You know those people where it’s like, you know they could kill you, but it would be a privilege to die by their hand?” #CBRBingo – Friendship

Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills

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This was adorable. I don’t read much contemporary YA, but if they were all as cute and funny as this was, I would read a lot more of it. I picked this book up on a whim in a used bookstore last summer. I remembered that several of my friends had given it glowing reviews, so despite my sometime-aversion to the genre, I bought it. A well-spent $9, for sure. (And my copy, an Owl Crate version somebody sold for credit, is signed by the […]

Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto, for helping me escape just when I needed to. (CBR12Bingo: Repeat – friendship)

Ungifted by Gordon Korman

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Everyone told me that I was going to love college, and that I’d just have to grin and bear it through high school. College was okay, I actually didn’t hate high school (despite being a Daria Morgendorffer type, I quickly fell in with the artsy nerdy kids and our school was diverse enough that the teen movie style cliques didn’t really apply, everyone more or less got along with everyone else give or take), but there is no amount of money you could pay me […]

cbr12bingo – Fresh Start

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

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I have a confession to make: I judged this book by its cover. I remember the frenzy of press around this book, the series, and the *mysterious* author. I also remember seeing the cover and being completely uninterested. It is, in my opinion, a dreadful cover. It looks like it was cobbled together to act as a prop. It looks like a poorly thought out passion project. I still think the cover is awful, but I am glad that I changed my mind around shunning […]



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