Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I REALLY GOT TO GO

Marcel's Masterpiece: How a Toilet Shaped the History of Art by Jeff Mack

A History of Toilet Paper (and Other Potty Tools) by Sophia Gholz

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There once was a man who came to New York from France around 1915. He had been a painter, but decided he wanted to do something else. And at a time when people thought art could only be “pretty paintings and sculptures by hand” this man decided to turn a urinal upside down, sign it and call it dart. That man was Marcel Duchamp. And Marcel’s Masterpiece: How a Toilet Shaped the History of Art by Jeff Mack tells us that and more. My rule […]

Scientific artist; artistic scientist

Something About the Sky by Rachel Carson 

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Something About the Sky by Rachel Carson can be too flowery, overly poetic, funky artsy and yet beautiful, thoughtful, and creative.  This book is not for everyone, and even if this book is for you, it might not be an easy read. Take your time reading, be comfortable, do not be afraid to start over and to read multiple times. Also do not be self conscious about saying, “I did not get that” as I said that many times. I give this a four for potential, it is […]

Art in the eye of the beholder

How Dreadful by Claire Lebourg

Corner by Zo-O

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Art is in the eye of the beholder and that is very true in How Dreadful! This book is about a young artist, named Paty, who only has a few days before her art opening and nothing is ready yet. Having friends pose for her is not the problem, but their feelings about what they see as the final portraits are. That is until the art is in the show and others see the works. Claire Lebourg’s story was not necessarily for me, as I was thinking […]

Folk art and an artist

A Tulip in Winter: A Story about Folk Artist Maud Lewis by Kathy Stinson

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 cbr15bingo North America: Canada is in North America  Who is Maud Lewis? I had no idea until I found A Tulip in Winter: A Story about Folk Artist Maud Lewis. Kathy Stinson’s picture book (currently available) is a love story to a woman who overcame times of prejudices, and a debilitating  case of rheumatoid arthritis. As a young woman, her parents death and brother selling their home meant she had to move in with an aunt. But she was being treated as a child. Through a […]

It’s not nice to spy on people hiding in the woods

What We Saw: A Thriller by Mary Downing Hahn

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cbr15bingo: Nostalgia: For the days when I first read this author, a young kid with no adult problems! When I was asked who my favorite author was as a kid, usually I would say Mary Downing Hahn. I had others (Walter Dean Myers, R. L. Stine, Christopher Pike, to name a few), but she was always one. Then, as an adult a gal I met via pen palling said she liked her too, so we bonded over our like of this author.  And when I […]

Medieval Over Time in Pictures Has No Substance

The Fantasy of the Middle Ages by Larisa Grollemond, Bryan C Keene

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I realize that The Fantasy of the Middle Ages was basically designed as an accompaniment to an exhibit at the Getty Museum and as such was possibly never meant to be a fully standalone book. Except that it now is, and as a stand-alone book, this is beyond shallow. It has a lot of pretty pictures, but often with little context of the history or art of the source manuscript) , and it brings up aa lot of things about how the Middel Ages in […]



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