I’ve done it. I have found the perfect book, and I have reached the goal. 52 books read and reviewed in just over 10 months, and boy, am I hitting this milestone with a dozy. This is absolutely a contender for Book of the Year. Lies We Tell Ourselves is a book about desegregation in 1959 Virginia. It’s a book about accepting who we are and realizing that sometimes we are so much more important that we think. It’s a book about challenging the views that […]
Fake It Til You Make It
This is it. My penultimate Cannonball read. Last year I only made it a little over halfway, and this year…well, I’m almost there. I’ve been trying to select my last few books carefully, wanting to go out on a bang (I mean, I’m going to keep reading and reviewing after I hit 52, but come on. #52 has to be special.) Red Queen is a title I’ve seen kicking around lately and I’m a sucker for books like this. YA, female protagonist, magic, class warfare, dystopian. […]
She’s All Brute Force and 90s Cliches
Forgive me readers, for I have sinned. For a few moments, I let doubt enter my mind. I worried about this book. What if this was just some Potter-rip off? What if it was trite, derivative? What if my hopes were too high, my expectations were too great? What if I was disappointed? Well, gentle readers, I am a grown woman and I can admit when I was wrong: THIS BOOK IS FRIGGIN AWESOME. (Yes, I read a 526 page book over the course of about six hours. […]
A Wanna-Be Novel that Comes Close
Welcome to the backlog of reviews I’m going to try to start churning out now that I’m back from vacation! Hopefully at least one a day until I’m caught up (and, by then, I’ll have more since I doubt I’ll stop reading any time soon…) First up is All the Bright Places, a YA book which, according to Google, is “The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park.” I’m going to disagree on that. I think it wants to be, it tries to be, […]
Two Dimensional Characters, Three Dimensional World
An advanced copy of this book was received from NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. I’m a sucker for a good premise and a good cover. This book has both. It takes place over the course of an hour, on the first day of the last semester of a school year. Just after the principal finishes her speech, people try to leave the auditorium but find the doors locked. Almost the entire student body is trapped. That’s when the shooting starts. Gripping, […]
The Pagoda! Featured in a Book! Am I Dreaming?
Please Ignore Vera Dietz is a very good book. It was an even better book for me because I have lived my entire life (aside from college) about a half an hour away from Reading, PA. Reading, PA is not a very nice place in most areas (no offense Reading, I still love ya baby!). It’s a depressed town that seems to continue to crumble apart over time, but…they have the Pagoda. It was built in the early 1900’s and it was supposed to be […]
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