Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

But the Parsnip Cake Can Go Straight to Hell

Snacking Bakes by Yossy Arefi

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If you are kind enough to ask me about myself, I will tell you I’m a baker. If you are unwise enough to have follow up questions, I will feel compelled to provide immediate clarification. Baking yeasted bread is not especially enjoyable for me because, to quote Lizzie Acker on The Great British Bake Off, “You never know what it’s thinking.”  While I made my family’s bread for years, and recently started again to redirect my baking impulses into something less calorically suspect, I don’t […]

Cannonball 2024

Kobe Eats Pizza! And Helps Make It, Too  by Ashley Wian

The Birds of Bethlehem  by Tomie dePaola

Black Girls A celebration of you! by Dominique Furukawa

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I kinda sort of made my first Cannonball in January 2024. Except it didn’t happen because though I had the last three books read, I did not have them written up. I could have done it before the last day of January, but I didn’t review everything I had read, as this year was for fun reading and reviews were second. Or I guess I could say I was waiting for three special ones.  So we’ll go with that and those books were only found on […]

Be Yourself, everyone else is taken

Sinclair, The Velociraptor Who Thought He Was a Chicken by Douglas Rees

Millie Fleur's Poison Garden. by Christy Mandin

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I cannot wait for July 2024 and these two books to officially come out. Both titles were read as online reader copies, and Douglas Rees and Christy Mandin have written two of my favorite reads (so far) of 2024. Rees has Sinclair, The Velociraptor Who Thought He Was a Chicken. Edna, the very first chicken, is hatching her very first eggs! And when her chicks are hatched, all the gals are lovely chickens. But there is one egg left, and when it hatches (even though […]

Pancakes, britches and home

Pancakes for Findus (Findus and Pettson) by Sven Nordqvist

The Van Buren Sisters vs. the Pants Police by J.F. Fox

A Garden Called Home by Jessica J. Lee and Elaine Chen

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Picture books are a great way to read books and have fun as well. You not only read a book (and can read several in a day: Think of a tailor and some flies and “seven in one blow”), but you can learn something. Like how to make pancakes out of your pants, or what britches are, and even that some plants need snow to help them grow. And not only that, you can just have a delightful story you can solo read or read […]

My last CBR16SweetChallenge (Round 1?)

From My Head to My Toes by Aly Raisman

Lights Out: A Movement to Help Migrating Birds by Jessica Stremer

Ollie, the Acorn, and the Mighty Idea by Andrew Hacket

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CBR16SweetChallenge  #Binge More picture books that I read … and in fact I have more to come, but this is already 760 words so giving you a break! Wrap up time! Picture books are a favorite of mine. You can get almost any subject out there and it’s presented in a neat (usually) package. Three books, three reviews and one theme: I read these. We know the story about body autonomy and enthusiastic consent, but From My Head to My Toes goes beyond that. Aly […]

Real Witchy Teas and More

Wiccan Teas & Brews by Cerridwen Greenleaf

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It would seem that my post-holiday, pre-before-school-starts self-care gift to myself this year so far has been in the form of teas. And then, I go into the library to browse for a minute before yoga (I should know better; every time I do that, I’m nearly late for class), and I find Wiccan Teas & Brews: Recipes for magical drinks, essences, and tinctures. Obviously, I had to check that out. There really are lot of interesting recipes in here, and I do not deny […]



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