Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A madcap road trip (with zebras)

Earl Crush by Alexandra Vasti

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3.5 stars Nowhere Books Bingo 25: Book about a road trip or travelling Disclaimer! This was an ARC granted to me from St. Martin’s Press through NetGalley. My opinions are my own. Lydia Hope-Wallace is a wallflower, and perfectly happy to remain so, because she has crippling social anxiety and tends to throw up if forced to interact too much with people outside her immediate family or friends. She’s been secretly writing seditious pamphlets and publishing them anonymously for the past three years, and for […]

One of us! One of us!

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

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I bought the four-book set for the October Murderbot CBR16 meetup. But when it came time, I had other library books to read, work stuff, travel, etc… Basically, life got in the way. I usually operate very well on deadlines but there was other stuff that was feeding my soul at the moment. Even though I wasn’t ready for the meetup, I was ready to dive in on the back half of my Christmas holidays. This series is such a delight. Suffering through insipid interactions […]

Even adults probably have wondered this

Are you Made at Me? by Tyler and Cody Feder

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“Are you mad at me?” is a question that many kids have asked. And in this book, Are you Made at Me? by Tyler and Cody Feder, we get answers to that question. Our ostrich heroine, Opal, must do a task that makes her very nervous, she prepares (her favorite scarf around her neck and corsage in her heart), and off she goes. But every so often she runs into a friend and something happens to make her think they might be mad at her […]

“…if you’re gonna fail anyway, you might as well fail as your true self.”

Improve: How I Discovered Improv and Conquered Social Anxiety by Alex Graudins

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I love autobio comics so have been following Alex Graudins’ work for a few years and seeing her work on this book, so it was exciting that it is finally available in the world. I pre-ordered it but it got returned to B&N for some reason by USPS, so I bought it at an indie bookstore randomly yesterday and read it on the train home. I think since I really like her work, the idea of writing this review was hard because this book didn’t […]

Being seen, being acknowledged: Worth its weight in gold.

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Everybody’s experiences are different, right? Nobody had the same exact high school experience as anybody else; nobody’s Christmases, or prison terms, or piano recitals are exactly alike; And nobody’s experience of parenting is exactly 100% the same as any others. But the thing about writing is that it takes all the things that are unique and singular, and somehow makes them feel universal.  There’s something about mothering, about parenting, something about loving a child so much to the exclusion of all else that, even though […]



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