The only reason Poetry Comics is a four and not a five rating is there were two things I was not loving. The first is that sometimes a poem felt finished but kept on going and the second was that I was not sure why some of the poems were in that particular season. Such as many in the season of winter did not match with my idea of winter. However, Grant Snider’s works are fun stories done in clever poetry. They made cute illustrations […]| Cannonball Read 17
Recently I found an online reader copy of a title called Summer Solstice Wish by Kate Allen Fox and Elisa Paganelli. They have a prequel or companion Winter Solstice Wish which I remember reading, but was not WOWed by it, but felt that it was enjoyable to read. However, I tried to read Summer, and could not finish it. Perhaps I was in the wrong mood for it. Perhaps I was not the reader for it. Perhaps I was thinking of Halloween and summer was […]| Cannonball Read 17
Barbed Wire Between Us by Mia Wenjen and illustrated by Violeta Encarnación was a WOW book. It was not necessarily the story itself (though that is pretty wild) it was the way it was formatted that really made it work for me. It is a fantastic circular story that shows how history can repeat. But not only that, the text is repeated. We start with a young girl who is behind a fence in the 1940s. How she gets there, the thoughts and feelings she […]| Cannonball Read 17
It’s October, and while I might not read *solely* spooky books this season, it seemed appropriate to kick off the month with a master of the genre. I have never read anything by Shirley Jackson (no, not even The Lottery) and I was most familiar with her work via Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House. Which is an excellent show (highly recommend!) but by all accounts not a great adaption of the source material. More like, inspired by. So I went into We Have […]| Cannonball Read 17
I'm not quite sure what to make of this one. It seems like it's supposed to satirize reality TV, particularly The Bachelor type shows. In this case, the show is called The Catch, and we're down to the final 4 contestants competing for a scummy D-lister. I think my problem is that the book didn't go| Cannonball Read 17
CBR17 Bingo: TBR - Ruby Dixon is one of my favorite authors, and despite preordering it, I have been holding onto Bull Moon Rising for a rainy day for some time. (Then I read it in one morning, and immediately devoured the sequel By the Horns that afternoon!) Aspeth is the heiress to one of the o| Cannonball Read 17
I don't know how they did it, but these Animorphs books just keep getting crazier. I'm almost sad I skipped a few "skippable" titles, cuz what crazy hijinks am I missing?! Book 23 - The Pretender A Tobias book. Tobias is having weird flashes when he hunts small prey, where he finds himself see| Cannonball Read 17
He goes by 'Boy' for his first years, then 'Fitz' and 'Bastard', then FitzChivalry Farseer, illegitimate son of Chivalry Farseer, son of the enigmatic King Shrewd. This is for the Bingo Family square; Fitz has a family, a name, a legacy--but he never knew his own father, his grandfather buys his loy| Cannonball Read 17
It's the romances that feature the difficult people who feel unlovable that get to me every time. Add in some hurt-comfort and I am trash for your book. Kate Canterbary's The Worst Guy gives us two people who feel like they are too difficult to love finding out that they love the most difficult part| Cannonball Read 17
You Weren't Meant to be Human fulfills the "black" square on CBR17 Bingo I had Andrew Joseph White on my radar from his debut, but it wasn't until Compound Fracture that I finally read one of his books. Even though most of his books haven't exactly been for me, I have a special spot in my heart f| Cannonball Read 17
CBR16 Sweet Books: Excited (I love this book and would like everyone I know to read it, but also understand that it's very much NOT for everyone). Spoiler warning! I will do my best to review this without major plot spoilers, but if you want to experience this book without any prior knowledge of| Cannonball Read 17
