Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The other 99%

The Smallest Spot of a Dot: The Little Ways We’re Different, The Big Ways We’re the Same by Linsey Davis and Michael Tyler

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CBR15Passport, Different genres (science and mindfulness) While the rhyming of the text is good for kids in The Smallest Spot of a Dot: The Little Ways We’re Different, The Big Ways We’re the Same, it was a smidgen too much for this adult (even though I enjoyed it, I wished it was more straight forward). However, that lightness allows for Linsey Davis and Michael Tyler to give the reader not only a poem, but a story that includes facts about how we are different but […]

South American spirit

The Lizard Prince and Other South American Stories by Kate Ashwin

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CBR15Passport, author/country   The Lizard Prince and Other South American Stories includes funny, sweet, tense, endearing, thriller, even a bit of horror, stories. This book runs the gambit of folktales, legends, and lore. Know your reader, as not all are for everyone (there are some mature themes, scenes, and concepts). The stories were sensual, romantic, sad, thoughtful, little scary and even confusing. The translations might make a few bumps, but also the cultural differences are not necessarily things younger readers will understand, or relate, too. […]

“Peel away the scalp, scratch at the skull, peek inside the mind of Jeremy Haun. I dare you.” –Declan Shalvey, Bog Bodies

Haunthology by Jeremy Haun

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  CBR15Passport, Different genre horror in graphic novel Okay, I know I keep saying it, but I am not really into horror as a genre. However, I have noticed that there are some terribly clever works out there that fall into horror as a category. Now, I am revamping my thoughts and feeling about horror to say, “I do not like gore for gore sake horror, but a good, not too graphicly gross, thoughtful and/or thought provoking story I am good with.” Mostly. And with […]

Nasty, Brutish, and Short

The Summer Queen: Eleanor of Aquitaine Trilogy, Book 1 by Elizabeth Chadwick

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Cannonball passport- new author Another beautiful cover. People have long been fascinated with the story of Eleanor of Aquitaine, because she held power at a time when women did not. In both England and in France, she had considerable influence and power. She also is a bit of a mystery, because while writing at the time speaks to her beauty, there is no portrait of her actual likeness. The Summer Queen takes us from the time when Eleanor is 13 and her father dies and […]

Cheetos, Yes or No?

Ingredients, The Strange Chemistry of What We put in Us and on US by George Zaidan

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George Zaidan is a chemist, not a nutritionist. Faced with so many contradictory claims about foods and cosmetics, he brings his scientific experience to explore what is good or bad for us. If you’re looking for answers that confirm your beliefs: “Cheetos are poison” or “Cheetos are harmless” this is not your book. Rather this is a light science book that tries to be funny with lots of young boy humor (he likes to say “shit” a lot) that sets out to help the reader […]

Okay now this is a twist!

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

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Okay. Let me see if I can accurately summarize this book. The Woman in the Library is a book by Sulari Gentill about an author named Hannah Tigone who is writing a new mystery novel. Hannah sends each of the chapters she writes to a penpal named Leo for feedback. Each chapter of The Woman in the Library is a fictional chapter in Hannah’s book followed by feedback and notes from Leo. The fictional book that Hannah is writing is about an author who was awarded a […]



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