Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Everyone Knows your Mother is a Witch – Rivka Galchen (2021) and 1919 by Eve Ewing (2019)

Everyone Knows your Mother is a Waitch by Rivka Galchen

1919 by Eve Ewing

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Everyone Knows your Mother is a Witch It’s fair to look at this cover, font, and image and make some assumptions about what you’re about to read. I had the joy and probably making those assumptions, but not actually looking up what this book was about. I had read Rivka Galchen’s pillow book book and really enjoyed it so I was always already going to read this one. While the presentation of the book might not match its exact subject, the tone surely does. It’s […]

A new Alphabet

From Archie to Zack by Vincent Kirsch

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From Archie to Zack is a GLBTQ+ story and a sweet friendship story. You can say that Archie and Zack do have a crush on each other (as a description mentioned the joys of a first crush) or they are just dear, close friends, who care deeply for each other. This flexibility normalizes feelings and boys having them. It is also about acceptance as the whole school knows that the boys have this relationship. And when Zelda, Zinnia, and Zuzella find letters that Archie has […]

Draw Draw, Draw Your Pen Manically Across the Page

River of Ink by Etiene Appert

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cbr13bingo  People I am not sure if what I read was the entire book of River of Ink by Etiene Appert or not as I found an online edition for booksellers via a newsletter I occasional get. It did feel complete, had a what felt like a solid ending; therefore, I am assuming, yes, I read all of Appert’s book. However, regardless of what I did read, I know I read enough to know two things: One: WHAT THE FLYING MONKEYS did I just read? […]

When life gives you avocados, make guacamole.

Guacamole: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem by Jorge Argueta

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cbr13bingo Libations (a giant avocado on the cover with the dish of guacamole as well)   Guacamole: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem  is a delightful book length poem and a tribute to the avocado and the guacamole the young narrator loves to make. It is funny, sweet, and informative. The version of Jorge Argueta’s picture book I read was bilingual, therefore, allowing you to read in both English and Spanish. (Or as I did, try and figure out what words were which as […]

“Just Getting Along Shouldn’t Be an Ambition”

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

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CBR 13 Bingo: UnCannon Sometimes I read a book that is so deep it’s hard to put it into words for other people to understand. The only response is a directive: “You should read this.” This is how I feel about Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric. Rankine’s book is about not just her experience as a Black woman—although it is that as well—but what it’s like to be Black in a racist world, though that is a reductive summary that doesn’t do justice to […]

When you think the review says “poet witch” but is actually “poet to watch” you know there might just be magic

The Collection Plate: Poems by Kendra Allen

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cbr13bingo  Flora    Some of the poems in The Collection Plate: Poems by Kendra Allen are straight forward, while others have a more poetic way of speaking. Some poems deal with death, some with life, some with God, some with mothers and some all of that and more all at once. The experiences Allen has had in their life as a person of color and just as a person period, is laid out for all the experience along with them. To say Allen is not […]



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