Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Just Pictures of Cute Animals That Will Make You Feel Better

This Book Is Literally Just Pictures of Cute Animals That Will Make You Feel Better by Smith Street Books

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I admit, I am somewhat questioning myself by counting This Book Is Literally Just Pictures of Cute Animals That Will Make You Feel Better towards a book I have read. Because, as the title says, it is only photographs of cute animals. Smith Street Books created a counter book for someone who needs a quick item for someone. However, we all do need this book. It is a great “get well” gift or “having a bad week” gift, even a “housewarming/hostess” gift. It could be for […]

Non-Fiction Round Up

Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist by Franchesca Ramsey

Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

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Advice in the age of the internet, and a scary as hell Silicon Valley story. (3 stars) Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist by Franchesca Ramsey I will be the first to admit that I’m not the target audience for this book. Franchesca Ramsey had always hoped to go viral on YouTube, but never expected it would be for her spoof video What White Girls Say… to Black Girls. When that video blew up, she ended up in the center […]

Warm rumps and big messes

As Warm as the Sun by Kate McMullan

Llama Llama Mess Mess Mess by Anna Dewdney

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Once you tell the story of As Warm as the Sun and Llama Llama Mess Mess Mess, you have said it all. There is not a lot going on in each story, but there is enough for the right reader. Kate McMullan and Jim McMullan decided to talk about a new sibling. However, the twist is the new sibling is in the format of a new puppy. And the older pup is about as thrilled as expected that this interloper has stolen their warm spot […]

Her big Filipino Christian Egyptian Muslim Life: And isn’t it grand?

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib

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I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a humorous look at when cultures clash and you are the result. Malaka Gharib’s coming of age story shows how life is a balancing of yourself. And, finally finding your place where you have all your pieces comfortable. And love can happen anyplace. Even to an Egyptian Muslim and a Filipino Catholic. And a year after marrying they can have their American Dream: a girl named Malaka (like Monica with an L). Yet, clashes happen. Divorces […]

Odds are, one of these titles will tickle your reading fancy

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton

Snow by Sam Usher

Froggy Picks a Pumpkin by Jonathan London.

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What do you do with a girl like Maria? And what do you do when you cannot write a 250-word review on a book? Well, I do not know about Maria, but I know that you can combine three books into one review. First, we start with Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton. This book was certainly a book of the time. The obvious is, of course, the illustrations. The ladies in dresses, gentlemen in slacks, boys in overalls and girls with […]

Croc & Turtle may be different, but they’re the best of friends!

Croc & Turtle: Snow Fun! by Mike Wohnoutka

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Croc & Turtle: Snow Fun! is a modern-day Frog and Toad.  We have two best friends with Croc and Turtle. However, Croc likes the outdoors and doing exciting things (ice skating, sledding) while Turtle likes being indoors and doing more relaxing things (large puzzles and paper snowflake crafts). But that does not matter! If the two of them are together, it will be fun! Therefore, their solution is to do both to-do lists they have created. That is, until Croc can no longer stand the […]



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