Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

This book has been 16 years on my TBR list, and I don’t think I added it until a few years after it came out

The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

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3.5 stars StoryGraph Easy Read Challenge: A book with flowers, plants or leaves on the cover Buzzword Title Challenge 25: Animals (Birds are animals, right?) Nowhere Book Bingo 2025: A YA book CBR17 Bingo: TBR (I bought this back in 2009, it’s been on my TBR for 16 years) Anidora-Kiladra, the Crown Princess of Kildenree is taught the language of animals by her aunt while she is still a girl, but she has to hide this from people around her. Unfortunately, she’s unconventional enough that […]

“Sometimes it didn’t matter if you broke. You kept going. You weren’t given a choice.” (Bingo)

When a Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

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4.5 stars CBR16 Bingo: Dun Dun (From pretty much the first chapter, where Cordelia is “made obedient” there is a creeping sense of dread all the way through this novel) Cordelia knows her mother isn’t like other mothers. Other mothers can’t take over your limbs and puppet you, or force you to stay still and motionless for hours or days on end. Other mothers permit doors that can be closed in the house and let their daughters have friends. Other mothers don’t have a magical […]



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