Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Misfortunes is an understatement

The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang  by Stan Yan 

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TITLE:  The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang AUTHOR / ILLUSTROR Stan Yan Read via an advanced reader copy DUE September/late October 2025    Review: This is an interesting coming of age story with a potential supernatural element. I mean potential because is a ghost really talking to Eugenia, or is it just a normal fear manifesting itself? There are modern pieces that are mixed with the tradition of a Chinese family. And as Eugenia starts to become a teenager, she questions some of her mothers […]

Required guts, courage, and bravery… So of course she was a woman!

Lighthouse Ladies: Shining a Spotlight on Hardy Heroines by Kris Coronado

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When you see a title like Lighthouse Ladies: Shining a Spotlight on Hardy Heroines you might wonder if there really were enough people to fill a book. Well, it sounds like you could fill a book on any one of the four women who Kris Coronado highlights. Instead they take four real life women who saved lives, tended to the light houses, and dealt with other issues and situations. We follow Ida Lewis, Juliet Nichols, Venus Parker, and Julia Toomey who were women who were […]

I forgot  to take a photo of the book I had, so borrowed from internet, but that’s ok as it’s the book itself that really matters

Drawing from Memory by Allen Say

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The publisher description of Drawing from Memory by Allen Say:  Caldecott Medalist Say (“Grandfather’s Journey”) presents a stunning graphic novel chronicling his journey as an artist during World War II, when he apprenticed under Noro Shinpei, Japan’s premier cartoonist. But that does not scratch the surface. He was a young child during the war, dealing with a father who thought artists were shiftless and would never make anything of themselves. He was dealing with the war, his parents divorce, living with his seemingly judgmental grandmother, […]

Davis lecturing and marching.

Be the Light: How She Became Angela Davis by Daria Peoples

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Do you know who Angela Davis is? If you do, you are one up on me. I had never heard of them, or if I had it was just a footnote in history. And to be honest, Davis deserves to be more than a footnote. She needs her own thousand paged book. Instead I must settle for the clever picture book (currently available but read on line) Be the Light: How She Became Angela Davis written and illustrated by Daria Peoples. Davis was born in […]

A Woman’s Work etc.

A Woman’s Place: The Inventors, Rumrunners, Lawbreakers, Scientists & Single Moms who Changed the World with Food by Deepi Ahluwalia, Stef Ferrari, Jessica Olah

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Bingo 8: Work A Woman’s Place: The Inventors, Rumrunners, Lawbreakers, Scientists & Single Moms who Changed the World with Food is basically a short illustrated encyclopedia of women who influenced the food world. The overall thesis is that their intellectual, physical, and cultural work across centuries and places has gone under-acknowledged. These women in different ways had to work to take care of themselves, their families, and communities, and in the process came up with things ranging from Camembert cheese to dishwashers to famous cookbooks […]

Never mind Ms O’Leary’s Cow

The Fifth Floor by Micheal Harvey

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cbrbingo   cbrbingo17 red cbrbingo17 Red Michael Kelly, ex-cop and private investigator, is looking for a little information, and sources don’t get better than Fred Jacobs of the tribune.  Let’s meet Fred. Fred was six feet two and weighed slightly less than your average house cat.  He was chasing sixty with . . . a head of black hair the color and consistency of shoe leather. . . .  Fred was a life-long bachelor.  Suffice it to say, he didn’t get a lot of chicks.  […]



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