I’m a sucker for award-winning, young-adult novels. So, I can’t remember how it came to be there now, but it’s not too surprising that I had Brown Girl Dreaming (2014) by Jacqueline Woodson on my wait list at the library. From my diligent research before borrowing this book [reading the title], I assumed that it was the coming-of-age story of a young, black girl. On the one hand, I was right,Brown Girl Dreaming is a coming-of-age story. However, where I was expecting a fictional novel; this turned out […]
I was prowling through my library, on the search for a romance novel only available in print, when I spied You’re Never Weird on the Internet (almost) (2015) by Felicia Day, sitting out on a display table. I know Felicia Day from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, which I loved, but that’s about it. Curious, I cracked open the book to get a feel for it and read the first paragraph of the introduction: “I recently experienced the perfect summary of my career at a Build-A-Bear store […]
's CBR7 Review No:53 ·
Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction ·
Tags: #memoir, felicia day, gaming, Sophia ·
A Different YA Novel
I guess it is only fitting that I complete my Cannonball on a book that I first learned of from a Cannonball review. Yea! I can’t remember who now, but someone’s review convinced me that I should add The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (2008) by E. Lockhart to my queue. Frankie is starting her Sophomore year at Alabaster Preparatory Academy, an elite boarding school. The summer has changed her from a scrawny girl with frizzy hair to someone the boys are suddenly noticing. It doesn’t […]
The final book in the Rangers’ trilogy
Pamela Clare’s “Ranger”series has become something of a guilty pleasure for me. I read the first book, Surrender, almost by accident. Momentum carried me through Untamed, which I enjoyed even more. However, Defiant (2012) wasn’t available on Kindle at my library. Or available on Kindle at all, which isn’t a great sign. But it was too late. I love romantic adventures with protective (yet modern and understanding) heroes. I also like to finish what I start, and I needed to know the story of the youngest brother. Connor […]
Know Your Enemy
Like most people, I find pretty much everything about cancer terrifying. It doesn’t help that I’ve chosen a profession [Firefighter] that has all kinds of increased rates of cancer. Most of us at work don’t even like to talk about it because it reminds us that the unknown and uncontrollable might hit us at anytime. So you might wonder why I chose to read The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010) by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Every once in a while I like to delve […]
A little too much rape in this romance
This one didn’t do much for me. After the dark and disturbing Into the Woods, I was ready for something, fun, light, and entertaining. It was definitely time for a romance novel, but there wasn’t much immediately available at the library. So, I found Highlander Most Wanted (2013) by Maya Banks. I’d never read anything by Banks, but it looked like she’d written a lot of books, so I assumed she must have figured out what she was doing. Apparently she’s also written a lot of […]
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