Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

What happens when the last dragon on earth lives in the Bayou?

Highfire by Eoin Colfer

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Eoin Colfer has penned a bunch of YA/children’s novels.  His extremely popular Artemis Fowl series will soon be a movie.  Highfire is an adult novel, which is more of an adventure tale than a fantasy novel, despite having a vodka loving dragon named Vern as its protagonist. Colfer is funny, funny enough to have been the one to pen book six in the Hitchhiker’s Guide series. The story is set in the swamps in New Orleans and has a memorable cast of characters – the […]

Cockle your own Doo

Crow of His Own by Megan Dowd Lambert

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The main reason I enjoyed A Crow of His Own is that there is the theme of being yourself but not with a unicorn. This time Megan Dowd Lambert’s rooster, Clyde, has to fill the shoes of the great Larry. But there is no way he could as he just keeps embarrassing himself, and the other farm animals will not give him a chance to find out who he is. That is, expect for one goose, who knows what to say and do. Overall the […]

Rules to this but for now call me Joan Jet-Pack!

Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson

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Roller Girl is a graphic novel about literally falling down, literally getting bumps and bruises and coming to terms with the fact that the hurt old friends create lasts longer than any fall on the roller derby rink. Victoria Jamieson created a graphic novel for the middle shooler who is not sure of the ropes; is not sure of the rules of not only roller derby but teen girls as well. After all, this is the first time Astrid has been 12 and gone into […]

In which our reviewer contemplates the definition of nice, realizes she agrees with Tucker Carlson on one point, and learns that Scott Adams is batshit crazy

In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book by Joel Stein

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On my last trip to Pennsylvania, my brother-in-law gave my husband and me a copy of In Defense of Elitism as a sort of minor dig. (Joke’s on him, for one thing, true elitists don’t feel any shame in being called elite). This is a book that feels as at home in the humor section as it does on the political science shelf. It pulls off the trick of making you laugh initially at the innate silliness of it all–an author who sports a monocle in his […]

Blow me a story

The Boy and the Wild Blue Girl by Keith Negley

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The cover of The Boy and the Wild Blue Girl did not look appealing to me. I was not in the mood for a “wild child” and the antics that makes one assume. However, Keith Negley made a picture book that I am truly impressed with. If I have one issue it is that the theme of the girl becoming a special metaphor, might be lost on the child reading crowd. This metaphor, if told, tells the whole story. But I can say that the […]

Hop along Teetu

The Bold, Brave Bunny by Beth Ferry

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“B is for Brave; B is for Bold. B is not only for … bunnies!” And we see the bold bunny Teetu show us how he can be brave, how much beauty there is in the world, how one bunny can make a book and how there is no place like home even if there are so many bunnies it is not funny. Beth Ferry’s The Bold, Brave Bunny is simple, but far from simplistic. There are some grand details with Chow Hon Lam’s illustrations, […]



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