Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Bad Ass Footballer

How (Not) To Be Strong by Alex Scott

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Best for: Football fans. Football players. Fans of awesome women. Fans of Alex Scott. In a nutshell: Former professional football (soccer to US folks) player and current broadcaster Alex Scott opens up about her life. Worth quoting: “There was this underlying current that, somehow, playing in America meant we were getting too big for our boots. When in reality, being in America was making me a better player for England. But it helped me understand the part of the English character that feels it has […]

Mindy and change

Paws: Mindy Makes Some Space by Nathan Fairbairn

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Paws: Mindy Makes Some Space by Nathan Fairbairn, and illustrated by Michele Assarasakorn   This book is a cozy friendship story that includes three best friends, lots of dogs, a cat named Chonk, and (finally) new friends. There are a lot of bumps along the way (and hopefully only chocolate in the face of one girl) but still it makes for a fun read.   Now the bumps are several fold. First, there was a story plot mentioned that was confusing to me as I was thinking […]

Reid continues to serve aces with a terrific sports drama set in the world of professional tennis.

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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With twenty Grand Slam and nine Wimbledon wins, Carrie Soto is the most successful and highest-paid female athlete of her time. When injuries made it impossible to continue at an elite level she retired from tennis in 1989. But when she watches Nicki Chan tie her record on the path to exceed it Carrie’s ego spurs her to mount a comeback at the age of 37 to the sport she dominated five years before. It is the return of the Battle Axe, the woman everyone […]

Brain Washing. But in a nice way.

Invisible: A Graphic Novel by Christina Diaz Gonzalez 

The Cool Code by Deirdre Langeland

Ride On by Faith Erin Hicks

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Junior high is tough. And so is reading several creepy/thriller/horror novels or graphic novels in a row. Needed a major brain cleaning, I found three middle reader graphic novels that worked wonders. And not only were they “light” for my adult brain, they had messages and dealt with issues that kids today (and I’m sure we more mature kids have and are having to) deal with. I highly recommending doing this kind of washing of the brain at least once every two to three “intense” […]

One typhoon, a mysterious creature and a girl who won’t stop.

Asadora! Vol. 4 by  Naoki Urasawa

Asadora! Vol. 5 by  Naoki Urasawa

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The idea of this series is simple, a girl growing up in Japan during the late 1950s to mid-1960s. We see her ups and downs, all the while she deals with the government and trying to stop a sea creature so the Japanese can put their best foot forward so close to the end of the War, a war that left as many scars as the storm and monster have.  Asadora! Vol. 4 by Naoki Urasawa is a continuation of their not so horror graphic novel […]

The Full Arsenal

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby

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Nick Hornby is a man defined by his obsessions. In his Believe column he catalogues both his extensive monthly reading and his even more extensive book buying. His obsession with music is obvious from his essay collection Sonngbook and the novel High Fidelity, whose protagonist is forever making lists of various best songs. But perhaps his principal obsession is with Arsenal, the venerable English football club whose games have thrilled and tormented Hornby since he was 11 years old. Published in 1992 when the author […]



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