Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Poetry Books

How to Read a Poem by Terry Eagleton

Lords of Limit by Geoffrey Hill

The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky

The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins

Selected Poems of WB Yeats by WB Yeats

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

New Hampshire by Robert Frost

Emily Dickinson by Poems and Letters

Gilgamesh by Ed. Stephen Mitchell

Leaves of Grass 1855 by Walt Whitman

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CBR14Bingo – Mind – This book addresses the “heart” elements of poetry with a literary critical mind approach. How to Read a Poem – 5/5 Stars This is a book that I really enjoyed but even Terry Eagleton admits that it’s not much help to anyone who hasn’t read a decent amount of literary criticism, especially for the first half of the book. It’s rare for an author to suggest that maybe for some readers, starting at chapter 5 (out of 7) would yield the […]

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Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Frog and Toad - Collected Stories by Arnold Lobel

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines

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CBR14Bingo – Question: Why are so many Americans obsessed with this book (especially Libertarians and Sovereign Citizens) Common Sense – This is one of those books whose main ideas and arguments I ostensibly know through cultural osmosis. If I had ever read it before, I am less sure, but I have taken a handful of early American classes, so maybe. One of the prevailing ideas that came to me as I read this and thought more about why it holds such a special place in […]

The Near Perfect Read Does Exist

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

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I have not had the best of luck when authors whose work I enjoy recommend other stuff; I was definitely uncertain about Seanan McGuire’s recent recommendation since some of her tastes (inclination towards horror specifically) do not match my own. However, Legends and Lattes went on $1 sale for Kindle, and I figured, why not at least try it, it sounds like it might be ok. It was not ok; it was perfect (almost). Legends and Lattes takes a lot of very standard tropes but […]

Get cozy and read!

Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe

Blanket by Loryn Brantz

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When you need to write a review about two books you want people to know about and you can’t do a full count for either? You combine! Which is a familiar theme with me. And though these two books are not connected by theme, they are connected by being two good books. I am not sure if Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe is based on a folktale or is a folktale, but it has the elements of a South American tale, an African […]

There’s space for more than one friendly ghost

Gilbert the Ghost by Guido Van Genechten

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Just in time to grab for your littles for spooky season -> Gilbert is an adorable ghost, who doesn’t really know how to ‘ghost’. And when he tries to learn, he just can’t get it right. And he… kind of doesn’t want to be spooky and scary and learn to shout BOOOO and haunt people & places. So when Gilbert is exiled to the abandoned tower, instead of learning to be scary in isolation, he instead makes a kitty cat friend named Meow, cleans and […]

Cozy mystery involving spies and Girl Scouts

Merit Badge Murder by Leslie Langtry

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I seem to have developed a thing for cozy mysteries involving spies. I’m honestly not sure how it happened. Was I looking for spy novels and thought these sounded cute? Or was I looking at cozies and decided spies would be a nice change from amateur sleuths? Merit Badge Murder is the first book in the Merry Wrath series. A CIA agent is forced into early retirement after being outed on national television. She changes her name Merry Wrath and settles in her family’s hometown […]



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