Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Shana Tova, y’all!

Days of Awe: Anthology by Aviva Blakeman, E.S. Wilder

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This cover! It’s gorgeous. I laughed because a good friend of mine has frequently used the anthology’s tagline to describe Jewish holidays to me, “They tried to kill us, we survived. Let’s eat!” As gorgeous as the cover is, the stories inside are fantastic. Aviva Blakeman and E.S. Wilder have put together a fantastic anthology. From the introduction to the end of the last story, Jewish authors have written stories that center Jewish resistance. The stories range from the time of the Spanish inquisition to […]

Book three held its own

The Rising Tide (Island Book volume 3) by Evan Dahm

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I stole this part of my review from Melchior on Goodreads, “Obviously anyone reading the third book in the Island Book trilogy already knows by now but Evan Dahm’s art style is so perfectly suited” for this theme. However, I did not realize The Rising Tide (Island Book volume 3) was book three! I had a “wiggle” in the back of my brain that something was off, but it was not until I was halfway through that I realized my goof. Yet, for the most part, things flow perfectly. There […]

Bronze-Age Crete

Minoan Wings V01 Dragonfly Song by Wendy Orr

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The novel Minoan Wings V01 Dragonfly Song is a contemporary toned story set in the Bronze Age. The historical facts were well researched by the author, Wendy Orr. And what is presented is not just the factual information, but also there is an arc about mythology and religion (such as the goddess worship vs the bull/masculine, the representation of the animals and nature), and one that feels like it has more modern ideas of equality and gender (the goddess, the mother,  the priestess, daughters). Though maternal ruled villages […]

I read some books. Here’s their reviews. Hope you like.

This is My Treehouse by Guillaume Gueraud

Sleepy Happy Capy Cuddles by Mike Allegra

Noura’s Crescent Moon by Zaina Khan

The Ever-Changing Earth by Grahame Baker-Smith

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I am switching between my old links and new links of online reader copies. In my new links I have This is My Treehouse. It is a quiet, but busy, story about a child and the treehouse that is magical and can take them any place they want to go. It is a rocket and a pirate ship. It might be leaky and not that big, but it is what is needed. Guillaume Gueraud’s story is nice, but it was the illustrations of Alfred that […]

Do Re Mi excited to tell you about this book

The First Notes: The Story of Do, Re, Mi by Julie Andrews

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I know one thing about music: what I like and what I don’t like. And, granted that can be eclectic (Jim Byrnes anyone? How about Queen? Elvis? Ella? Bowie? Fraggles?) But I never thought about the “how to” of it. After all, why bother? I knew I liked it, but why should I learn about Do, Re, Mi? It’s just a silly song in a fun musical movie right?  Well, yes, but it’s a lot more, too. While I still do not know a lot […]

“You are standing at the gateway of heaven. You are living in the House of God.”

Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering an Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age by Richard Beck

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Hunting Magic Eels is a map for burned-out Christians. Beck, himself burned out by years of doubt and Christendom, wrote this book as an antidote to focusing too much on the wrong things. His idea is that we live in a time of a reduced existence: We’ve reduced humans to meat, redwoods to lumber, art to content. “Welcome to the ache,” he writes. We have a chalk outline of what’s missing from our hearts, but we don’t know how to fill it. Why is life […]



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