Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

That’s Mr. Mark if you’re nasty

I Am a Rainbow by Mark Kanemura

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Mark Kanemura is a voice in the GLBTQ+ community. However, their story, I Am a Rainbow, while personal to them, has been told before. This does not mean it should not be told again, it just means if you are looking for a new approach to the subject of being yourself and being a queer child, this is not completely that. We follow Mark from home, to school, back home, then with some special friends. Along the way Mark realizes that confidence is not that […]

The other 99%

The Smallest Spot of a Dot: The Little Ways We’re Different, The Big Ways We’re the Same by Linsey Davis and Michael Tyler

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CBR15Passport, Different genres (science and mindfulness) While the rhyming of the text is good for kids in The Smallest Spot of a Dot: The Little Ways We’re Different, The Big Ways We’re the Same, it was a smidgen too much for this adult (even though I enjoyed it, I wished it was more straight forward). However, that lightness allows for Linsey Davis and Michael Tyler to give the reader not only a poem, but a story that includes facts about how we are different but […]

South American spirit

The Lizard Prince and Other South American Stories by Kate Ashwin

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CBR15Passport, author/country   The Lizard Prince and Other South American Stories includes funny, sweet, tense, endearing, thriller, even a bit of horror, stories. This book runs the gambit of folktales, legends, and lore. Know your reader, as not all are for everyone (there are some mature themes, scenes, and concepts). The stories were sensual, romantic, sad, thoughtful, little scary and even confusing. The translations might make a few bumps, but also the cultural differences are not necessarily things younger readers will understand, or relate, too. […]

“Peel away the scalp, scratch at the skull, peek inside the mind of Jeremy Haun. I dare you.” –Declan Shalvey, Bog Bodies

Haunthology by Jeremy Haun

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  CBR15Passport, Different genre horror in graphic novel Okay, I know I keep saying it, but I am not really into horror as a genre. However, I have noticed that there are some terribly clever works out there that fall into horror as a category. Now, I am revamping my thoughts and feeling about horror to say, “I do not like gore for gore sake horror, but a good, not too graphicly gross, thoughtful and/or thought provoking story I am good with.” Mostly. And with […]

Performance jitters

Something Wild by Molly Ruttan

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Hannah loves playing violin, but not in front of people. Of course, she has a recital. On the day of, Hannah wishes for Something Wild to happen. And due to some wonderful imaginative situations, the laughs (and some well needed inspiration and self-confidence) happen. Molly Ruttan has created a tale of cleverness and overcoming stage fright in a fresh, vibrant, manner. Story and text mix together to create magic and humor. Overall, the ideas that Hannah get (her outfit disappears, dolphins in the fountain whisk […]

She might be a mall goth, but she ain’t no poser

Mall Goth by Kate Leth

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The day was a late night in February 2023. I picked up my phone and said, “Hey! I have fast internet, try and read something.” And I read Mall Goth by Kate Leth with Diana Sousa as colorist and Robin Crank on lettering. (Now honestly, I am not sure the importance of the lettering person, but I do know it is important, so welcome!) I was going along just fine, until there a bump here and there would hit. A large one was a technical […]



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