Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Why do you want my voice?” “Because I’m a sassy sea witch and I’m gonna keep it in a nautilus necklace, then use it to steal your man from right under your nose”

Can't Escape Love by Alyssa Cole

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3.5 stars CBR17 Pie Challenge: Inclusion CBR17 Bingo: Borrow (read through Libby, since I don’t actually own the book) Regina “Reggie” Hobbs is working hard to make her nerdy website, Girls with Glasses, a success, and prove to her over-protective parents that she’s perfectly capable of taking care of herself, even if she’s in a wheelchair. She loves the work, she loves her very capable team, but lately, she’s been struggling with insomnia, and the only thing that seems to soothe her to sleep is […]

Puddles and Penguins

The Noisy Puddle: A Vernal Pool Through the Seasons by Linda Booth Sweeney

No Huddles for Heloise by Deborah Kerbel

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I write my reviews before I post. I might miss a few things (I am a horrible editor for myself), but I try to organize my thoughts. But when I counted out my review for The Noisy Puddle, it was less than 170 words. To fill the quota I’ve added a fiction book to go with the non-fiction one. Besides, it’s twice the fun in one review! And while many probably will like the first book, if you’re like Heloise, you don’t always follow the […]

Accidentally Scandalous

Half A Soul by Olivia Atwater

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Was I expecting to read the most spot on description of depression I’ve ever seen in a frothy regency faerie tale? I most certainly was not, but I loved it. Theodora Ettings lost half of her soul as a child to a vengeful fairy who had made a bargain with her mother. She is now drifting through her days with only half the amount of feelings that she should have. Having very little sense of embarrassment or fear is quite the drawback for a young […]

Free the Press. Free the Truth

Ink Girls by Marieke Nijkamp

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Ink Girls by Marieke Nijkamp and illustrated by Sylvia Bi could be called “one of “those protest books.” And maybe that is the best way to start the review. However, it is more than that. It is about how we see ourselves and others see us. It is about learning to stand up for what is right and not the easy thing. It is about how the youth of a community/city can be a strong voice regardless of being “young.” There is found/finding family (one […]

Licking the wind

The Boy Who Loves to Lick the Wind by Finoa Carswell

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I love having a “book dealer” or aka the publishers who like to send me little gifts of books that I get to read then tell people about. One of these recent gifts was The Boy Who Loves to Lick the Wind by Finoa Carswell and illustrated by Yu Rong. And while I expected more actual wind licking (or what would pass as wind licking), what we do get is a fun and interesting story that includes a mixture of modern and classical tones to […]

The author and their work

A Perfect Mistake by Melanie Conklin

When You Have to Wait by Melanie Conklin

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After reading Counting Thyme by Melanie Conklin, I went on to read their A Perfect Mistake. I had wanted to reverse the reading, as I had seen an online reader copy of A Perfect Mistake ages ago, but lost my link. I then said, “Hello Library of mine. Do you have Melanie Conklin’s books?” One interlibrary loan request for each later, I had the first and the most recently published (with book four, Crushed, out in July 2024) in hand. I will go back and […]



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