Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Book two times three

Rema Chronicles V02 Kingdom of Water: A Graphic Novel by Amy Kim

Grand Slam Romance V02: Major League Hotties by Ollie Hicks and Emma Oosterhous

Double Booking V02 When and Where Wolf by Pangburn,, Kim Shearer and Nic Touris

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Sequels are always an interesting read. They can  be the best book in the group or the worst. They can also be so much later than book one that you forget everything about what happened before.  And that last one is what happened to Kingdom of Water: A Graphic Novel (the Rema Chronicles #2) by Amy Kim. I started reading (via an online reader, due August 2025) and said, “Who are these people again?” Therefore, read volumes one and two close together. Spoiler: There will […]

Life Under the Third Reich

What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany by Eric Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband

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Bingo: Citizen. “[T]he questions we asked of Jews about their everyday lives in Nazi Germany concentrated more on how they got along with and were treated by the non-Jewish population in their communities and on their loss of identity as former patriotic Germans in a society that no longer considered them worthy of citizenship and eventually of life itself.” I picked up Eric Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband’s What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany because of the growing fascism in […]

Young rebels

Little Rebels by Yuyi Morales

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Cbr17bingo Citizen (as a citizen it is our duty to help the community we are a citizen of and we are a citizen of the Earth, the land, the people on it). To be honest, I do not remember if I requested the reader’s copy of Little Rebels by Yuyi Morales or if it was just sent to me, but either way I got a lovely surprise when it arrived at my work via the USPS mail. It is due in early September 2025, therefore […]

This cabinet is more than a family antique heirloom

The Cabinet by Jordan Hart, David Ebeltof, and Chiara Raimondi

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Cbr17bingo FAMILY The Cabinet is one of those graphic novels/books where you will love it or hate it. The humor is offbeat, the characters are not always likable, but the adventures are strong. If Dr. Who meets Voyagers, with a hint of Stranger Things (or so I assume as I have not watched it), a little Buffy the Vampire Slayer, meets the wackiest D&D game (or Vox Machina) you have read that is set in the 1990s diverse cast series. Creators, Jordan Hart, David Ebeltof, […]

Why You Shouldn’t Cut-and-Paste a Genome Like a Word Document

CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans by Henry T. Greely

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I made quick promise at the end of my review of Gene: An Intimate History, that I would be reviewing a number of books about a certain individual who wanted to ‘win’ the gene editing arms race. And how very reckless he was. That man, of course is Hè Jiànkuí. This is the man who tried—and succeeded—in inducing heritable CRISPR-mediated genome modifications in human embryos that then resulted in live births. Hank Greely’s CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans is a rather […]

Coming of age during the Cuban Revolution

How to Say Goodbye in Cuban by Daniel Miyares

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Cbr17bingo Border (leaving Cuba’s borders is dangerous, entering the US boarding is difficult) While a tense story, How to Say Goodbye in Cuban by Daniel Miyares, is also a delightful one of overcoming the adversity of the times. Though immigration stories are not new, the author makes this based on real events (his own fathers journey from Cuba to the States) fresh. This is a relatively unknown story as I have not seen a lot of stories that were set so much in Cuba with little […]



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