Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Normal is a setting on a VCR.

Normal Norman by Tara Lazar

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CBR15Passport, own Normal is a setting on a VCR. Which you say makes no sense at all. And that is the point.  There is no “Normal Setting” on a VCR (and do they even have VCRs anymore?). Which means there is no normal. And in Tara Lazar’s Normal Norman we learn exactly that. Normal is not a real thing. Normal is as normal does. Normal is who you are. And we learn this through funny text, equally goofy S. Britt illustrations and a young scientist […]

The Question is Hugs. The Answer is Maybe not.

Hattie Hates Hugs by Sarah Hovorka

Same Love, Different Hug by Sarah Hovorka

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CBR15Passport  own (Hattie Hates Hugs) Sarah Hovorka has a thing about hugs. Now, it sounds like they mostly like them, but maybe for other people. You see in Hattie Hates Hugs Hovorka has Hattie in the uneasy and unpleasant situation of a family reunion where Hattie has a family of huggers, and Hattie hates hugs. They make her all squirmy and stiff. And boy do they upset her tummy. But it is not until the wise matriarch of her family lets her in on the […]

Have a cup of tea? Don’t mind if I have three

The Tea Dagon Society Book One by K. O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Festival #2 by K. O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3) by K. O’Neill

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I have the goal of reading all of K. O’Neill’s works. It has been a little tricky as they have gone by at least Kate O’Neill and Kay O’Neill as well. But with the finishing of the third book in the Tea Dragon Society series, I might have made it. This is a big deal as (until a few years ago when posthumously her second book came out) Harper Lee might have been the only author with that honor. I came to The Tea Dagon […]

A story and book full of possibilities

I Could Be a Million Things by Jessy Humann

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If I could be anything I think I would be a wombat. After all they have cube poop and are bad a$$ (literally, they can injure predators with their butts). But that is not exactly what I Could Be a Million Things is about (I just wanted to mention how cool wombats are). This is more about the things around us, the importance of those things, and the inspiration we can get. It is about a world of possibilities.  There is a bit of thoughtfulness, […]

Walking through the apocalypse

Rain by Joe Hill

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CBR15Passport,  Illustrator lives in UK I did not rate Rain a five because it was the best, but because it really hit me in the right feels. Plus, there are some amazing alternative images at the end.  It is probably a 4.5 but I was feeling generous as this is an experience book that had I been having another experience than what was happening while reading, this book wouldn’t have worked. You need to give this book time, read the illustrations, read slowly as if […]

Harper and Sam running for their lives 

Black Star by Eric Anthony Glover

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 CBR15Passport, already own I read an interesting graphic novel. There are interesting illustrations that support, compliment, and become its own character. The equally interesting text can be taken “as is” and straightforward, or you can look for a deeper meaning. This is not a onetime read, as there are several parts and a few layers. What is this graphic novel called? Black Star by Eric Anthony Glover (or Eric A. Glover or Eric Glover depending on what source you are using, and since the book […]



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