Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Think of ingredients like household cats – if they’re helping, you can always add more.

The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food you can make so you don't die by Zilla Novikov, Rachel A. Rosen

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We wish we could come into all your homes and take care of you. But that’s called “breaking and entering” and apparently it’s illegal? Cooking is one of the greatest and most consistent joys of my life. Even so, there are times when I have so little energy that the best I can do is the bare minimum. Since I am white knuckling my way through life with chronic depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and a neuro-spicy brain, I have certain staples that I keep on […]

Eat Meat Or Not

Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag: A Memoir by Michael Anthony

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Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag: A Memoir is a very pro vegetarian/vegan lifestyle memoir. There are intense images of animal abuse/cruelty as well as human death, blood, and talk of war. I wonder what Chai Simone (illustrator) was thinking  when they were asked to do this graphic novel. Because for them this was a debut and they are being asked to create images of slaughtering animals, missing limbs on humans and a guy barfing in a toilet holding a giant bong. There is also mention of […]

A couple of treats

Sugar in Milk by Thrity Umrigar

The Night Before Eid: A Muslim Family Story by Aya Khalil

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As I mentioned in a previous review I like picture books about different cultures, and I have been reading a lot of reader copies online, even though both titles I am going to mention are available for physical copy-owning I might just get a physical copy of Sugar in Milk as Khoa Le’s illustrations are wild, fun colors, details, and expressive in all ways. They are supporters of the story and their own characters. This Thrity Umrigar tale is a delightful, thoughtful and relatable story […]

Gee, thanks for hitting me with a rock of emotions!

The Sea in You by Jessi Sheron

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Sadly, I hated the ending of The Sea in You. And the boyfriend deserved more than a punch in the jaw (I’m with Skylla, hit him with a rock)! I start my review out with such strong feelings because that is what this originally webcomic now full book (but I read via an online reader copy on Edelweiss) did to me. Gave me strong feelings. I had all the emotions from liking Corinth to not liking her to liking her… ; from liking Skylla to […]

The light in these books

My Diwali Light by Raakhee Mirchandani

Raaga’s Song: A Diwali Story by Navina Chhabria

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I like when picture books present other cultures or pieces of that culture in them. I think it is because of the introduction aspect. You can get your feet wet without all the nitty grittiness of things. And in a picture book roundup post (again, I’ve been busy with picture books being read online from my old saved links) here are two titles that are good for that introduction aspect and could make you and your child want to learn more.  My Diwali Light by […]

A prince, an aging dragon, and a mysterious maiden should have gone out for a drink, instead they did a little battle

Three Tasks for a Dragon by Eoin Colfer 

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I like a good fairy tale, legend, mythology, or folklore story. Therefore, when I saw the cover of  Three Tasks for a Dragon I figured it would be a fun story in that line of storytelling that would be about a dragon and his redemption story. And it is somewhat that; but it is also the loss of innocence, loss of youth, the greed for power, and the magic of true love and cherries. It was the illustrations of P. J. Lynch that kept pulling […]



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