Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

She loves moths, people!

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

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As a kid, I hated bugs. I feared many of them. But for some reason, in junior high, I fell in love with Gene Stratton-Porter’s A Girl of the Limberlost. I recently remembered how I’d re-read my favorite scenes aloud, imagining myself as the lead girl. But for the life of me I couldn’t remember anything else about it, so I decided a re-read was in order. The book was written in 1909, and is a companion to Freckles, which I have not read. This caused some […]

“When my life was new, I understood in my bones how little it mattered what anybody else was doing, or what they thought about what I was doing. I believed my bones then.”

Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

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In one word: Raw Cannonball Read Bingo: Elephant I’ve been toying with writing my own book for a few years now, and am finally starting to get serious about the endeavor, or at least get serious about saying I’m getting serious, which is practically the same thing, right? I cashed in a work award (thanks Snappy!) for a free six-month Skillshare membership and came upon a course by Ashley C. Ford on writing titled “Creative Personal Writing: Write the Real You.” I loved her style […]

You Had Me At “Queer Monster Love Story”

Hollow Heart by Paul Allor

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I was excited to have my novel nominated for an Indiana Authors Award this year. Since I didn’t win this round, of course I had to pick up a copy of the winning book in the Genre Fiction category, a graphic novel titled Hollow Heart. I was thrilled to see it described as “A queer monster love story about the choices we make between giving our loved ones what they want and giving them what we think they need.” El is a test subject in […]

I think I’d like to be Flora’s aunt

Rosetown Summer by Cynthia Rylant

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cbr14bingo Font Level Two Cynthia Rylant is known for their cute, young stories. If you like having a Happily Ever After ending you will usually get it. And Rosetown Summer is no exception. This adorable novella is a book two (Rosetown was book one in the Rosetown Books) that can be read as a standalone. The joys of the familiar mix with the fear of the unknown and change, but as our main character travels along the road from fourth to fifth grades, she learns […]

We Don’t Ever Leave the Old World Behind. We Just Create a New One.

Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven

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A delightful way to officially begin my 2019 reading year.  This novel by Jennifer Niven was part of a pile of YA novels I checked out of my college’s library before winter break and so far it’s been my favorite.  Similar to her first novel, All the Bright Places, this novel focuses on the developing relationship between two Indiana high school students, and the story is told by both characters in alternating chapters. Libby Strout is excited and dreading her first day of school since […]



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