Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Reversing the trip

Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan

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Diversity The CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge The graphic novel Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan is a fun story about when your whole life is not just turned around with a move and that move is all the way across the world!  Ruth, a young teen, and her parents move to Hong Kong (her mothers hometown) from Canada  when her father gets a great new job in China. If this wasn’t bad enough, her brother is staying […]

Once Forgotten, but Should It Stay That Way?

Skinny Bitch in the Kitch by Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin

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I was going through a shelf looking for a book, when I found a different book that I’d forgotten about. I kind of remember reading Skinny Bitch (basically an argument for eating vegan but feminist-ly) but apparently I’d forgotten I had the accompanying cookbook, Skinny Bitch in the Kitch. I must also have read this cookbook at some point, as every recipe has the US equivalent of the UK measurements the book uses added, in my handwriting. However, I am not sure I’ve ever actually […]

How to Raise Your Own Kids Baking Champion

bake it by DK

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I was watching reruns of Kid’s Baking Championship, and I think it might have inspired me to pick up a kids baking book off the library shelf. bake it also happens to be a DK book, and I’ve usually had good luck with DK instructional stuff. Being a kids book, and thus more basic assumptions of skill and knowledge, it makes sense that there are a lot of images of techniques for decorating, as well as preparing doughs, batters, fillings, etc. What I don’t quite […]

She’s not the spirit we wanted, but the one we needed

Zawa + The Belly of the Beast by Michael Dialynas

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I was a few pages into Zawa + The Belly of the Beast by Michael Dialynas when I said, “I think this might be a rating of four.” I was not sure why, but the humor and story up to this point made me think I was going to really really like it. Well, I did enjoy it, but not really really liked it. As the story went along, there were some missing pieces, and I was not liking some of the characters (the ones […]

What’s scarier than a cucuy?

The Unlikely Aventuras of Ramón and El Cucuy: An Illustrated Chapter Book by Donna Barba Higuera

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The Unlikely Aventuras of Ramón and El Cucuy: An Illustrated Chapter Book by Donna Barba Higuera and some funny illustrations by Juliana Perdomo is a fun story about family and a bit of mythology, that I read via an online reader copy.  Our narrator/main character is a young monster on the eve of his first assignment to scare a human child. They are the youngest in their class, and one of the few cucuys who do not have a Clump or name. Therefore, they must […]

Who’s the Good Boy. This Pit Mix, That’s Who!

One Good Dog by Susan Wilson

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OK, first things first.  The dog lives, and actually thrives.  I know that’s always a consideration with books with a title like this. So this was on my ancient list of book to order, and I really had no idea what it was going to be about.  It’s a dual narrative, human and dog.  Sort of a cheesy set-up, but it works.  The trait both have in common is that they both have been traumatized when younger and have gone through a series of foster […]



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