Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Mediocre at best

Linked by Gordon Korman

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I’m going to start this review with a warning. The book summary makes it sound really good and really interesting, but I didn’t like the book. I thought that the plot was underdeveloped and that the characters were underdeveloped. It was overall pretty boring, in my opinion. Linked by Gordon Korman is set in a small, quiet town in Colorado. But, something horrible happens. The school gets vandalized by a swastika. Nobody can believe that a symbol of such hate would end up in their […]

Tech-free? Either a nightmare or a dream!

Unplugged by Gordon Korman

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Unplugged By Gordon Korman   Not gonna lie, I picked this up because there was a cute little lizard on the cover holding a power cord in its mouth.   Jett Baranov is the son of the emperor of the technological world.  Well, not really.  But his father owns a technology company that’s bigger than Google and Apple combined.  His mother works as a famous orthodontist for Orthodontists Without Borders and is often out of the country.  With a mostly absent mother, a work-obsessed father, […]

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 […]

I’d take back all the words that had hurt you, and you’d stay…

Restart by Gordon Korman

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Thank you to the Redditor I’ve already forgotten for turning me onto Gordon Korman books; I hadn’t heard of him before someone posted about their crush’s shared love of his stuff. For whatever reason (price, it was price. I can’t resist something if it’s inexpensive enough) I was curious enough to buy this to see what the fuss was about, and was pleasantly surprised by how charming his writing is. So often young adult condescends to its readers, but Korman writes well realized characters with […]

I Kind of Just Feel Nothing with this One

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There’s a café in our city with a little “library” that encourages visitors to swap books (leave one, take one), and I’m pretty sure at the moment they have about 4 full sets of all the Twilight series? In any case, on Canada Day, I impulsively did a switcheroo, and got my friend to point at a random book for me to take, which led me to picking up Pop by Gordon Korman. Well, initially it was something like “Vampie Lovers 2” or whatever but I said, I can’t […]

A little bit louder now…

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When I was a kid, I was a voracious reader – even more than I am now. My mom was so proud – she’d take me to the parish library, I’d pick up a stack of 20-25 books and fly through them in a day or three at most. Hoping to encourage my younger brother to have a similar passion for books, my mother would often buy books for Brother and put them on the bookshelf in his room. I don’t think he ever actually read any […]



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