Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Trivializing death

Obitchuary: the Big Book of Death by Madison Reyes and Spender Henry

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I’m grieving right now and I’m pretty sensitive. So I probably should have considered my mental state when I saw Obitchuary by Madison Reyes and Spender Henry at the library, but I didn’t consider anything when I checked it out because it’s called Obitchuary. I like puns, dark humor, and am easily entertained. It’s a fun, interesting book of trivia, but it doesn’t have much besides factoids. I found out that caskets and coffins are not the same thing! Coffins roughly mimic the human shape […]

“The best way to go through life is to be a major donor of kindness”

Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas

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Bingo: I am counting this book for the “Diaspora” space on my bingo, since it centers on the author’s experience as a member of the Iranian diaspora. This was a memoir covering Firoozeh Dumas’ life, from her family’s move from Iran to California when she was 7, up through her teenage years and young adulthood. She writes about her experiences with American food (hot dogs are pretty gross, if you think about it), her family vacations to American tourist sites, her disastrous stint at summer […]

“It’s more important to be a good listener than a good musician.”

How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy

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Bingo: I am using my free space for this one, in the “TBR” space (I don’t really maintain a TBR list, so this one would have been difficult to complete). That also makes this my second Bingo! Woo! I am not a Wilco superfan. I’ve listened to and enjoyed their music, but I don’t think I could name a single Wilco song off the top of my head. When I heard about this book though, written by Wilco’s lead singer, the title piqued my interest. […]

Practice what you do

Hello Sleep by Saehan Parc

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When I write a review, I write it out first, so I can organize my thoughts. Sometimes I cannot get to the review right away and need to remind myself of what a book was about. Hello Sleep by Saehan Parc and translated by Selene Bright was one of them. This does not mean it was a bad book, but it was not one that grabbed my attention completely.  The character of Sleep is a happy character that is learning about how to sleep. They […]

Marriage is just for the tax benifits and other life lessons

Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed? by Liz Prince

Delayed Replays by Liz Prince

Look Back and Laugh by Liz Prince

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A while back I read the graphic novel, Tomboy by Liz Prince. It was a fun memoir about being a kid that made me wonder about adult Liz. Who is she now? Or at least when her works were published. I found 2018 as the most recent autobiographical work, 2023 for Science Comics: Frogs: Awesome Amphibians (from First Second) and Adventure Time Compendium Vol. 1 in 2024 with other contributors.  Adult Liz is not much different than kid Liz. A bit awkward, weird, funny, has […]

Rooting out the truth

I Am Not Boring: The True-Life Story of a Log by Lena Podesta

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Honestly, I don’t know about you but if I see a brown thing (yeah, went there too, but realized it was a log) in cartoon form I tend to look at it and assume I will not be interested in it. And even with the words NOT and BORING that still would not grab my attention. However, for some odd reason I decided to pick up I Am Not Boring: The True-Life Story of a Log by Lena Podesta (due late May 2026) in an […]



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