Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Kerbel and Lo Present: Animals

What About an Elephant?: A Fact-Filled Savanna Adventure by Deborah Kerbel

What About an Octopus?: A Fact-Filled Underwater Adventure by Deborah Kerbel

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I was looking through a recent email sent to me via a publisher. They were promoting a few new books and What About an Elephant?: A Fact-Filled Savanna Adventure by Deborah Kerbel and illustrated by Dawn Lo was one of them (it is due in mid-August 2025). There was a companion title, What About an Octopus?: A Fact-Filled Underwater Adventure also by Kerbel and Lo (but is currently available) advertised as well. I looked around and found online reader copies for both. While I was […]

You eat weird

Chomp-O-Rama: The Strange Ways That Animals Eat  by Maria Birmingham

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Chomp-O-Rama: The Strange Ways That Animals Eat  Written by Maria Birmingham Illustrated by: Kyle Reed  Due mid April 2025 Read as an online reader copy Review done by Me This book was exactly what I thought it would be and a little different. The little differences were it was a lot younger looking than I thought it would be and the illustrations were a bit less filled out than I personally would have liked. Exactly what I thought it was was the part about how […]

April is Poetry Month

She'll Be the Sky: Poems by Women and Girls by Ella Risbridger

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I started reading the introduction (which is something I don’t always do) to She’ll Be the Sky: Poems by Women and Girls by Ella Risbridger and illustrated by Anna Shepeta. But I stopped maybe half way through as I started to feel that the author was telling me what I was supposed to think about the poems and the choices they made with the inclusion of the poets and poems. Plus it felt as if I needed to agree with their opinion on having a […]

A Lonely Grave in a Far Land

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

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Captain James Cook was already a world-renowned explorer when he set out on his third great voyage around the world. Over the course of three years, he’d touch down on the shores of Tasmania, be the first European to come in contact with the people of the Hawaiian islands, and nearly destroy his ships and sailors in the search for the fabled Northwest Passage – and meet a grisly end in a strange murder that is still being debated to this very day. I read […]

I Don’t Believe in Astrology by Debra Silverman, M.A.

I Don't Believe in Astrology by Debra Silverman

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Honestly, this isn’t a bad book, but it wasn’t as helpful as I thought it would be. I was intrigued by this being a therapist’s guide to astrology, but honestly, some of the things for Aquarius do not apply to me at all. For example, I always laugh at it when someone says oh you are quirky and love technology….I loathe technology and my team of 20 somethings […]

“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything.”

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron

I Remember Nothing & Other Reflections by Nora Ephron

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Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss. […]



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