Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Archives for December 2021

Rocky the Owl

The Christmas Owl: Based on the True Story of a Little Owl Named Rockefeller by Gideon Sterer

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When I was trying to locate The Christmas Owl: Based on the True Story of a Little Owl Named Rockefeller (and I wished they kept that name instead of shortening it to Rocky) I noticed there were six or seven different books about this owl who learns what Christmas means. I had not even heard of the real story last year, let alone Gideon Sterer and Ellen Kalish’s book. And here by accident I learn there are not one but half a dozen books about […]

This isn’t your father’s Jungle Book…..

Sengi and Tembo by G. Falco

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FYI: I have some not fort his book images becaue I can and I like them! If Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities created a book together, the graphic novel Sengi and Tembo by G. Falco (or Giuseppe Falco) probably would be the results. Rebellion, status quo, life, and the ultimate equalizer death all come together in a dark, somewhat comedic commentary on not only how things should be but can become. Sengi is a young mouse that quickly learns the dangers of […]

Jolie had known for six months and two days that her life was now temporary.

If I Were a Weapon by Skye Kilaen

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On a near future Earth, alien ships appear and then moments later all the aliens die. As they die, clouds of nanites infect the area around the ships, killing many and leaving some with powers. Some time later, Deneve is making her way to Austin from Houston. She’s had a flash of a vision, just enough to know someone is in danger. Deneve has been on the road, unwilling to stay anywhere too long since the aliens arrived. The nanites that infect her body lead […]

Gain – Richard Powers (1998)

Gain by Richard Powers

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-So if I were recommending this book, it would come with a warning that a fair amount of this book is rage-inducing and saddening. We have two competing narratives. In one, we get the history of the development of a soap company beginning in the mid-19th century in the Northeast through the late 1990s. This begins with two brothers coming up with a process to mass-produce soap, to reduce the oily residue from glycerine, and then through the Gilded Age’s development of corporations (in the […]

She’s Not Afraid to Catch Feelings

Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest

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I was really excited to get my hands on this. It had good reviews and its quirky nature seemed up my alley. And it…mostly met expectations. Let’s unpack… For all intents and purposes, this is a cozy mystery and I don’t usually do cozies. The relentlessly sunny outlook despite the presence of a dead body, the sexless flirting and banter, the stuffy settings and predictable plots. But even though this has some of that, it was written by a younger person who isn’t trying too […]

Over 100 million saved and counting

Fred & Marjorie: A Doctor, a Dog, and the Discovery of Insulin by Deborah Kerbel

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Fred & Marjorie: A Doctor, a Dog, and the Discovery of Insulin by Deborah Kerbel and illustrated by Angela Poon is a graphic novel that is based on the true events that lead to the discovery that would easily save over 100 million people: insulin. There is simple text showing the events of the early 1920s that made it possible to treat type 1 diabetes, or Juvenile diabetes. There are the images that show that before the early 1920s the treatment was starvation and therefore, […]



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