Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Our house is a very fine… okay it is a piece of crap but it’s where we lay our heads, along side the rats

UTown by Cab

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cbr15bingo Dwelling the building  they live in is being torn down as their neighborhood is being hit by gentrification  Will a slacker stay a slacker or is there more for him? Dreary images show the seedy, dark side of things in UTown. CABs (Caroline Breault) story is realistic, gritty, raw, and maybe a bit too relatable. There are mature themes, language, and content. A true literary graphic novel that is not for everyone, but maybe everyone should read. The book report portion of this review for UTown is […]

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At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender: Life Lessons From a 50-Year-Old After Two Decades of Self-Discovery by  Shou Arai

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cbr15bingo sex: how sex and gender are two things, but also how that plays a role in relationships, especially as we age and learn more about ourselves.  An intense, mature subject matter exploration of one person’s journey into what it means to be intersexed and transgender is shown on the pages of At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender: Life Lessons From a 50-Year-Old After Two Decades of Self-Discovery. Shou Arai gives us the ins and outs of sex, presentation and so much more. It can […]

Some princesses, a prince and a bear go on an adventure

 Swan Lake: Quest for the Kingdoms by Rey Terciero

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cbr15bingo Politics: two rival kingdoms are pitted against each other due to lack of understanding and greed There are way too many references to modern ideas, not to mention Swan Lake and Tchaikovsky in the graphic novel, Swan Lake: Quest for the Kingdoms.  But that is part of its charm for adults. For the 10 and up crowd, it is a funny, interesting story that mixes in friendship and assumptions and sword fights together. Combining all the fantasy and science fiction elements (I can make a […]

When the spirits ask for help

Guardian of Fukushima (Junior Library Guild) by Fabien Grolleau

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cbr15bingo Asia/Oceania  set in Japan While I am giving Guardian of Fukushima (Junior Library Guild) a five, there are a few bumps that make this graphic novel 4.5 to a 4.7.  However, while this is not a perfect story, it is wonderfully done and is the story that was needed. The emotional and human aspects of the earthquake, the tsunami and nuclear devastation of March 2011 is explored in ways we do not usually see. Which tends to be, when a disaster happens, we usually find the […]

Be the grandfather

My Grandfather's Song by Phùng Nguyên Quang,

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cbr15bingo Guide: We must be the guides for the next generations to keep the conservation of our world happening. My Grandfather’s Song at first seemed like it was going in one direction, but it does a slight turn. The beginning seems more of how nature is wild and therefore for us to learn from, but the turn comes when the narrator shows us how everything is connected and respect is given to the wild. We see all this with how the narrator grows. You will […]

Rising above

Follow the Flyway: The Marvel of Bird Migration. by Sarah Nelson

Rose Spoke Out: The Story of Rose Schneiderman by Emma Carlson Bene

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cbr15bingo Take Flight: The first book has birds literally migrating and the second a young girl flies above her “lot in life” I was in the mood for something different the other day and I found a science and history selection in the picture book format. There is a lot going on, therefore one future publication (though I did have a physical reader copy) and one current book will need to have multiple reads. August 2023 is a busy month for books. And one of […]



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