Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

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This is it. The last review of my cannonball! And what a book I have chosen to go out on. A friend of mine, seeing on Goodreads that I was edging toward my reading goal for the year, reached out to me with some graphic novel suggestions that I could tackle quickly to get across the finish line. It was great to have her support, and her endorsement that graphic novels “do count” which, of course they do! One of her suggestions was the graphic […]

A review for some but not for all

Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation by Ari Folman

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We talk about books that are not for everyone, well, this is a review not for everyone. I bring up feelings, more than facts here. I have thoughts that you probably do not say today. But I am telling you, the review reader, this book affected me in ways I did not expect. This is my journey being introduced to a story I thought I knew, but came away with a different outlook about it. I have never read The Diary of Anne Frank. Though, […]

When Mouschi the cat goes with his boy, Peter, to a secret annex…

The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank by David Lee Miller

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The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank is a poetic look at a few years of Frank’s life. However, instead of Anne or another person telling the story, it is told through the viewpoint of a very humanly aware cat. David Lee Miller and Steven Jay Rubin take us through the years of Anne and the others who were hiding in the annex. But due to the fact the cat is a cat, it does not focus on her, but on The Yellow Stars (as […]

War sucks

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I just recently turned thirty-nine, so forty is just around the corner. Not too long ago, I stumbled on a reading list on the internet: 50 Books Every Woman Should Read Before She Turns 40. It’s a list with many great books, some of which I’ve already read. However, the list loses some credibility for a number of reasons. First, the blurb states that the list celebrates female writers, but then Gustave Flaubert is one of the authors? Second, and more importantly, Fifty Shades of Grey is on […]



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