Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Ridiculous, as expected

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

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Grady Hendrix and I have an on-again off-again relationship. I didn’t like Horrorstor, but I appreciated the premise and the book itself in terms of the illustrations included. I enjoyed How to Sell a Haunted House enough that I decided to try The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires and give him another chance. I will give him credit for being an author that I picked a random book from because of name recognition. So there’s that working in his favor. But we are […]

We Sold Our Souls by Grady HendrixWe

We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix

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“We Sold Our Souls” follows Kris Pulaski. Kris is 47 and after a hellish night working at a motel realizes that her life has a hole in it that she never got back after her band Dürt Würk broke up in the 90s. Kris starts see billboards and ads that her former bandmate Terry is about to put on an epic show. And this makes Kris wonder what happened all of those years ago and what caused her band that was about to make it […]

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

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“Witchcraft for Wayward Girls” follows 15 year old Fern. The book starts off with her father barely speaking to her and him driving her to St. Augustine, Florida. We find out that Fern is pregnant and she’s been taking away from her aunt’s home (where she had been sent) after she refused to stay i the house hidden. Now Fern is going to a home for other girls like her who will be kept hidden until they give birth. When Fern meets a librarian that […]

The Blanks by Grady Hendrix

The Blanks by Grady Hendrix

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Well dang. That is how you do it. I maybe forgive Grady Hendrix for that puppet book. Okay, I don’t. I just remembered enough in my brain to still be mad about that whole thing. Anyway, “The Blanks” is horror that is just pitch perfect. Does everything get explained? Nope. But it’s a wild and horrifying ride to the end. Maybe because we know what is next for this family, and it’s nothing good. “The Blanks” follows Rachel and her family (one boy, one girl) […]

How To Be A Groovy Witch

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

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In which we learn why bookmobiles are an essential part of any community and a spell to ensure that our appliances always run smoothly and reliably. It is the summer of 1970 and Fern, Rose, Zinnia, and Holly are currently trapped at the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida. Pregnant girls are sent here by their families to secretly have their babies and give them right up for adoption before forgetting that any of this ever happened. They are in control of nothing about their […]

How To Be A Groovy Witch

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

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“In this world there is one truth; everything has a price, and every price must be paid.” -Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix Fifteen-year-old Fern (not her real name but the name she is given for most of the book) is a girl in trouble.  It’s Flordia in the summer of 1970 in this novel (although Fern hails from Alabama) and Fern is in the unwed mother-to-be kind of trouble.  She is also, I will point out fifteen, but in the time and place in […]



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