Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Wonderful Winter’s Tale

The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

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Foxes are foxes, to be sure, but they can also present themselves as humans.  They tend to be beautiful or handsome, and humans in their presence can become somewhat confused about what just happened.  Some are tricksters by nature, while others are quite serious.  And many just enjoy living among humans. Snow is not one of the later.  She is out for revenge.  She had left her child, curled up in a barrow in the snow while she went hunting, and while she was gone, […]

“Love is sharing your popcorn.” —Charles Schultz

A Salwar Kameez for Ambika by Arti Pandey

Samina Goes to a Wedding: Celebrations from a Bangladeshi Marriage by Farida Zaman

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Somedays I think I must be one of the top 100 romantic skeptics. I mean, I love a good happily ever after, but I’m also the person who, when I see a public proposal, I’m the one saying, “Just say no! But if you do, get a good prenup!”  So when I recently found two picture books about weddings as online reader copies, I almost passed them by. I mean, I’m all for a wedding (I mean let me eat cake) but reading about them? […]

Well, I had an experience.

DAYGLOAYHOLE #1 by Ben Passmore

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I was not going to review DAYGLOAYHOLE #1 by Ben Passmore. Mostly because I really disliked it. I mean I cannot stress how much I really disliked this book. The second reason is you can only get this book via Silver Sprocket’s website. This is probably because it is more of a zine or comic book store comic (so I guess you might be able to locate it at your local comic store), and less of a traditional graphic novel.  But when I realized that […]

The woman and the slave girl

Raging Clouds by Yudori

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Books sometimes find me. I was going to the library to pick up some I had ordered and Raging Clouds by Yudori was sitting off to the side of the entrance. I almost didn’t go that way to the checkout desk (I usually go left, not right) but something made me go right. And there it was. Fat, shiny and new. It was shyly facing away from me. And that’s the last time this book was shy. Even the librarian when I checked it out wasn’t […]

I found a new place to dwell

Heartbreak Hotel by Micol Arianna Beltramini

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Several books on my recent HBR (Have Been Read) list have had similar feelings and/or themes. And yet, each one is its own unique read. Heartbreak Hotel by Micol Arianna Beltramini and illustrator Agnese Innocente falls into this “alike but not alike” category. This coming of age story is similar to the stories The History of Everything: A Graphic Novel by Victoria Evans, Raging Clouds by Yudori, and The Flip Side by Jason Walz. Yet, it is also its own work and has its own […]

“He was an overeager puppy and she was an aloof cat, and he was bound to get his nose swiped at least once or twice.”

Let's Give 'Em Pumpkin to Talk About by Isabelle Popp

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I was reading another book and it hit a highly dramatic bit, and I was not in the mood for it. So, I pivoted to the next book on the physical pile on my end table and thus, Let’s Give ‘Em Pumpkin to Talk About became my Sunday read (and my Cannonball book). I’m glad it was because this romance featuring the human equivalents of an over-eager golden retriever and a reticent to trust black cat was exactly the wavelength I was on.   Sadie Fox agreed to come home to Pea Blossom, Indiana, to care for her father’s beloved pumpkin farm while he tends […]



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