Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Travel with books

Tomorrow Is New Year's Day: Seollal, A Korean Celebration of the Lunar New Year by Aram Kim

One White Crane: A Bilingual Counting Book of the Months by Vickie Lee

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I was thinking the other day that I want to travel. Well, since my bank account really laughed at me, I decided to go to the bookstore and find some books. And since I am spoiled, I found two books in online reader copies to read. The first Tomorrow Is New Year’s Day: Seollal, A Korean Celebration of the Lunar New Year by Aram Kim and the second was One White Crane: A Bilingual Counting Book of the Months by Vickie Lee and illustrated by […]

Generations

My Baba's Garden by Jordan Scott

Babo: A Tale of Armenian Rug-Washing Day by Astrid Kamalyan

Dadaji’s Paintbrush by Rashmi Sirdeshpande

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What do you do when you have a picture book online reader copy marathon? You read them, then decide which ones to write up. And these stories about different generations coming together are just a small sample of what was on my reading plate. Both of my grandmothers were odd. After all, they married my grandfathers. And you don’t know odd until you have met the man the neighborhood called “the crazy old man with the ski pole” or the one who told the president […]

That’s not how any of this works….

The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell

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CBR Bingo- You are Here I am on my couch, watching a lot of GBR, under a blanket. It’s Great British Baking Show, with murder! Oh, and set in Vermont. Betsy Martin is Prue, the bestselling author of a number of baking books and called “America’s grandmother.” She has been hosting a show called “Bake Week” for years. In this version, the baking competition takes place in Betsy’s sprawling mansion, and the contestants sleep there. There are many of GBR’s typical characters; the young one, […]

Diversity

What Rosa Brought by Jacob Sager Weinstein

Come and Join Us!: 18 Holidays Celebrated All Year Long by Liz Kleinrock

Once Upon a Sari by Zenia Wadhwani

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Recently I posted on my Facebook page a couple images from books I was promoting that day. One was a book I had posted here before, The Night Before Eid: A Muslim Family Story, by Aya Khalil and the other What Rosa Brought by Jacob Sager Weinstein. Considering current events, I wanted to promote love, positivity and acceptance.  And I cannot think of two better books to show this. Except maybe Once Upon a Sari by Zenia Wadhwani. Or Come and Join Us! 18 Holidays […]

Two reviews for the price of one

Azula in the Spirit Temple (Avatar: The Last Airbender) by Faith Erin Hicks

Poiko: Quests & Stuff by Brian Middleton and Rebecca Taylor

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Some days I find the hit of all hits when it comes to books and sometimes I find a book that is good but is not OMG Best ever! And that is the theme of these two graphic novels. I enjoyed them, I am glad I read them, but I am not going onto any sequels most likely with one and the other is a book in a series I will continue to read, but hope these “mini stories” are a smidgen stronger. And I […]

Missed book two, but three was still fun

School Trip (New Kid volume 3) by Jerry Craft

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While you can read the graphic novel, School Trip (New Kid volume 3) solo, you should read volumes one and two first.  Jerry Craft has created another interesting look into the life and times of the “new kid at school” Jordan, and how he changes, grows and has the crazy growing pains of being a kid today. And these are not just the usual homework, bullies and friend issues, but he is also dealing with being a kid of color, and is different from most […]



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