Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Happy Holliday’s With a Couple Yummy books

Jan Brett’s the Nutcracker by Jan Brett

Peyton Picks the Perfect Pie: A Thanksgiving Celebration by America’s Text Kitchen Kids

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I was mentioning to a coworker that if you wanted to count how many different versions of a story there are, he should be looking at The Nutcracker as he had mentioned he was going to count how many different versions of Charles Dicken’s Christmas Carol came in. Soon after that, Jan Brett’s The Nutcracker came onto the scene. And of course, I had to read. With a few differences (Mouse King vs. Rat King or Mouse/Rat Queen are the big differences I have noticed) […]

The heroine should stay feisty; no fainting allowed!

Kakuriyo Bed and Breakfast for Spirits vol 6 by Waco Ioka, Midori Yuma, Laruha

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I’d almost figured that the Kakuriyo manga had either been stalled indefinitely or cancelled; it’s been about a year I think since the current volume was out (#6) but I saw recently that there’s volume 7 coming; I liked the anime version of the story so I’m hoping that the written version continues, although it so far is nearly the same as the animated. The basic premise is that college student Aoi inherited the ability to see ghosts and spirits from her grandad who took […]

Cursing Cookbooks with some History

Bad Manners Brave New Meal by Bad Manners LLC

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I read a lot of cookbooks; if there’s one I like and the author has more, I get my hands on them. Once upon a time, I found a cookbook based on a blog/web-site I’d never heard of called Thug Kitchen; it was a vegan cookbook that used a lot of 4-letter curse words, and it had a lot of recipes that I enjoyed. Books 2 and 3 were ok, but I never liked the recipes as well as the original. Then there were no […]

On your marks, Get set, Bake!

Bake it Better: Pies, Tarts & Puddings by Angela Nilsen, Jayne Cross

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I think I mentioned a long while ago that my mother had bought a bunch of cookbooks on sale as Christmas gifts, and then misplaced the bag for a few years, then found it. I have finally completed the last of these, and it might just be the best. I have been a fan of the Great British Bake Off (or Baking Show in the US, but The Great British Bake Off Bake It Better: Pies, Tarts & Puddings is of UK origin so we’ll […]

Still Life with Nood

That Noodle Life: Soulful, Savory, Spicy, Slurpy by Mike Le, Stephanie Le

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The worst thing about Mike and Stephanie Le’s That Noodle Life is that it isn’t out until April of 2022. Everything else about it is fantastic. I love it. I’ve never wanted to turn a cookbook into a huggable plushie before, but I absolutely want to hug this book. Cookbooks are becoming more challenging for me because there are so many foods I can’t eat anymore. But, I have always approached cookbooks and recipes as more guideline than rule. While I was a vegetarian, I […]

Get the scooper, ’cause I got the scoop on a robo-dog and its girl

D-39: A Robodog’s Journey by Irene Latham

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I am not really a dog person, but something about the idea of D-39: A Robodog’s Journey was grabbing. Maybe the androgenous look of the character on the cover or the fact it was a robot dog and as far as I could remember I had never read a book with a robot dog. Maybe because it was free. But what kept me reading this novel by Irene Latham was two main things: first it was done in a poetic prose manner. But it was […]



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