Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

May I Take Your Coat?

The North Wind and the Sun by Philip C. Stead

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Though the story within the pages of The North Wind and the Sun is one of “you get more bees with honey than vinegar” (I don’t like flies) is not new, but the way the author presents things takes on a fresh feeling. The art is child-like but far from childish. Perhaps more for an adult than the usual picture book crowd, this is a delightful book for anyone’s library. Philip C. Stead has adapted (or retold) a folk tale that I am unfamiliar with. Perhaps […]

Impeccably Spooky Vibes

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

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For this oh so spooky season! When Iris Hollow was seven years old, she and her two sisters disappeared for a month, only to reappear with no memories of where they’ve been or what had happened to them.  Now ten years later, Iris’s oldest sister has gone missing again.  Iris and Viv, the middle sister, must follow the breadcrumbs that Grey has left behind. However finding Grey means finding out the truth, the horrible secret Grey has been keeping from Iris all along. I picked […]

A Kind Sister World

The Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship. by Ibihaj Muhammad

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Picture books have been my life line of late, and one of my more favorites is, The Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship. This is a companion book to another Ibihaj Muhammad, S.K. Ali, Hatem Aly creation, The Proudest Blue. While this time, I was not as taken, I enjoyed reading it. We are exposed to not just another culture but we have a sibling story as well. We see how we can create our own special worlds, like a kindness world, or […]

Nothing like a sister

 Sweet Valley Twins: Best Friends The Graphic Novel by Francine Pascal

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Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s I read the Sweet Valley Twins High School series by Francine Pascal. There were a few others that would come along over the years, such as I seem to remember reading about the middle school years or at least seeing them on the shelves of the bookstore I would later work at and/or on my sister’s shelves. I think maybe I was just reading about the high school years and then a few college days, but I know I […]

CBR15 Bingo: Relation”ship”

It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey

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CBR15 Bingo: Relation”ship” (A book about sisterly love, romantic love and featuring large fishing boats) Apparently, our heroine, Piper Bellinger, is strongly inspired by Alexis Rose in Schitt’s Creek, Tessa Bailey wanted her to have her own happy ending. First of all, I’m not really sure I think Alexis was too badly off at the end of the show, just because she wasn’t shacked up with a man. Her ending seemed perfectly happy to me – not all HEAs need to involve a romantic partner. […]

Loss and Love

Always Sisters: A Story of Loss and Love by Saira Mir

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When you see a book with the title Always Sisters: A Story of Loss and Love a lot can go through your mind, as I know it did for me. Which was mostly what we were to deal with in the case of death. Disease? Accident? An older sibling taking their own life? Not to mention, is this going to be a straight forward or a “sappy” read. For me that made the process of reading this book perhaps more interesting than the book itself. […]



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