Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Shoulda Stuck to Cars

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin

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This was pretty amazing; I had never heard of this!  In 1927, when Henry Ford was one of the richest people in the world, he bought up over 5000 sq. miles of Amazonian jungle, near a river that fed into the Amazon, near its mouth on the Atlantic Ocean.  The purpose was to establish a rubber plantation; that being one of the raw ingredients that he needed for his autos that he couldn’t obtain domestically.  At the time, most of the world’s rubber production was […]

Surprisingly Dull Bones

The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist by Mary Manhein

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When I was young, one of my dreamed-of professions was to be an archeologist. I have no propensity for science nor any patience, so needless to say that dream went unfulfilled. But I have remained fascinated by the subject, from digs to dinosaurs to graves. This interest led me to pick up The Bone Lady by Mary Manhein, a surprisingly dull book about her work as a forensic anthropologist. Manhein runs a lab in Louisiana and was given the nickname “The Bone Lady” by colleagues. […]

Four Kids and a Comic Club

The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud

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If you are looking for a good graphic novelist, Raina Telgemeier is one to check out. However, she usually writes for the 10 and up crowd, but with The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel (along with Scott McCloud) she has hit the slightly younger aged 8 to 12 range a little more solidly. The format is a mixture of a story (four friends, who started out mostly not knowing each other, form a comic book club so they can make comics) and factual information about […]

A friend recommended

One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe by Dara Horn

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A friend and I have talked about books for as long as we’ve known each other. She is a daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, author (both fiction and nonfiction, for both adults and teens), a reader and much much more. But one thing she was not was a graphic novel reader. Well, as you might know, I am a reader of the genre. So I said to her, give it a shot and here are recommendations, even sending her a few books. Well, one day she […]

The Wheat Whisper or Father of the Green Revolution,

Hero for the Hungry : The Life and Work of Work of Norman Borlaug by Peggy Thomas

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While back, an email came into my possession containing the (currently available) reader copy of Hero for the Hungry : The Life and Work of Work of Norman Borlaug  by Peggy Thomas and illustrator Sam Kalda. The first part of the first half was interesting. It gave a nice introduction to the man that was Norman Borlaug. Starting with him as a young farm child to his college years, we see how he would eventually end up in Mexico learning as much as he would […]

It’s time for bed, beaches!

Tuck Me In! by Nathan W Pyle

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My lunch time pastime is looking at old and new online reader copies. I swap back and forth as to which gets attention during that particular viewing. Recently the new ones were the lucky ones. I saw a thumbnail cover that had a moon and what I assumed was a beach on the cover. It said Tuck Me In!, and my first thought was (to be honest)  that it looked boring as it was going to be just another bedtime story for babies and toddlers. […]



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