Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Cozy, With a Touch of Christie

Marple: Twelve New Mysteries by Various

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I think I’ve read every Agatha Christie there is. I’m always hoping for an undiscovered book. So when I saw a collection of new Miss Marple stories I was quite excited. It turned out to be not a long-lost anthology, but stories written by modern authors as new Miss Marple mysteries. The mysteries featured stolen pearls, an academic murder, death on the high seas, a wedding interrupted by a poisoning, strange happenings on a languid vacation, a wealthy old duffer knocked off, a double murder, […]

Gettin’ some lovin’

Young Men in Love: New Romance by Various

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Young Men in Love: New Romance by Anthony Oliveira, Joe Glass, Matt Miner (these two are highlighted as they are the ones in the email that included an online reader link), Luciano Vecchio, Bradley Clayton, Ilias Kyriazis, David Brame, Josh Cornillon and various others, came to me via an email from A Wave Blue World and Diamond Book Distributors. The email itself (which I assume was sent via a mailing list) was from Jesse who has sent other emails for the books they rep. And […]

Nutshell I Needed

The Mini Rough Guide to Athens by Various

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Best for: People looking for some very basic info to kick-start their holiday planning. In a nutshell: Small basic book with information on Athens and surrounding areas. Worth quoting: N/A Why I chose it: I’m going to Greece later this year. Review: I’m lucky enough to be able to take a trip later this year, to a country I’ve never been to before. Most of what I know about Greece is from US pop culture, with a sprinkling of knowledge based on what I learned […]

“half sob, half scream, born of the frustration she felt and the certainty that nothing would change unless she herself was the one to change it.”

Once Upon a Desire by Various

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A perfect book for people in a reading slump looking to discover a new author or folks new to paranormal / romantasy looking to dip their toe into a few approaches to the genre at once, through fairytale retellings that will give you a sense of of each author’s style through a relatively familiar story. That said, these are necessarily diminished stories. Epics and fantasy stories are typically not only long, but much longer than your average book. This is because they require a lot […]

Scooby Doo, where are you Batman?

The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries, Vol. 1 by various

Greener on the Other Side (Batman / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures) by Matthew K. Manning and Jon Sommariva

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Like comics? Like cartoons? Like fun mashups? See below for some possible fun. So you like Batman? And you like Scooby Doo? Well, The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries, Vol. 1 is a fun way to get your fix of both. While we have the Batman villains, the Scooby Doo humor comes into play. Various stories (with Batman, different Robins, Nightwing, Joker, Batgirl and more, some new to me, or maybe just lesser known overall) intertwin the DC universe with the Scooby Gang. There is even […]

Books

Zoom at Sea by Tim Wynne-Jones

Zoom Away by Tim Wynne-Jones

Zoom Upstream by Tim Wynne-Jones

How to Read a Book by Kwame Alexander

A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon

Paper Son by Julie Leung

Sign of Chaos by Roger Zelazny

The Princess who Saved Herself by Gregory Pak

81 Famous Poems: An Audio Companion to The Norton Anthology of Poetry by Various

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Zoom Trilogy Zoom at Sea “Zoom love water. Not to drink — he liked cream to drink –Zoom liked water to play with.” Zoom is a small cat who in the opening pages of this first book straps two wooden spoons to his paws so he can paddle in a sink full of water. This opens up an idea in him to make a small boat for the tub. Lastly he goes into the attic finding several sea-going artifacts and learns that his uncle is […]



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