Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A beat-up book that made me think people need this book

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness. by Kristen Radtke

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If you want to feel really bad about yourself, read Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness. Or, just as likely, if you want to feel great about yourself, read this graphic novel by Kristen Radtke. There are some contradictions, some places you will see yourself and see friends and/or family. It is slow reading, but busy. The book’s theme is, as the title says, about loneliness. Radtke talks about how it has its has ups and downs, in an almost poetic fashion with both […]

Couple of City Slickers in a John Wayne town

This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian

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Are you from CA and moved to The Middle of No Place? (Or from The City to The Country?) Did you try to live “off grid?” Did you mistake a coyote for a wolf? Do you think 2016 had the wrong person elected? If so, read this book, This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian. However,  if you think the right person was elected in 2016, keep walking. If you are looking for an interesting, but slightly self-centered, memoir, this […]

I didn’t do justice to these books, so ignore my review and just get copies of the books!

Growing Up under a Red Flag: A Memoir of Surviving the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ying Chang Compestine

My Name Is Long as a River by Suma Subramaniam

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I had the reading bug the other day, and found two books that are different, but important to know about. Both were read via online reader copies, and are future publications. I did have some trouble writing a review for them, as I wanted to do the subjects justice. I hope you, come Spring, pick up copies and enjoy, too. Growing Up under a Red Flag: A Memoir of Surviving the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ying Chang Compestine is an eye opening look at the […]

Unapologetic Style

Stepping Out: The Unapologetic Style of African Americans over Fifty  by Connie Briscoe

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I am not a fashion person. But I love good art. And this book is not just fashion but it is art as well. However, I do like history and this book also gives you the history of several subjects and areas. This book needs at least three readings. The first read is so that you look at the fantastic photographs. Savory them. The colors, the art, the funky and fun styles. The second read is for reading the text. There is a lot more […]

Inspirational

Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush by Patrice Lawrence

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cbr15bingo South America: The grandmother is originally from the Trindade and Tobago area. I wrote in a review a while back that I have read several grandparents books. Some were sweet and some serious, but all were really delightful. And with Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush, Patrice Lawrence wrote a picture book that was both sweet and serious. When a young girl, Ava, needs to find a person she admires to dress up for school, she is having trouble choosing. And when she confesses […]

His work can be seen along the tunnel walls in the darkest parts of the transit system

Pitch Black by Youme and Anthony Horton

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So, You’re and artist? Isn’t everyone?   That conversation of the above line is at the end of the beginning of Pitch Black (I am seeing the title as just Pitch Black and as Pitch Black: don’t be skerd but I will go with just Pitch Black). The rest of the book will deal with probably the biggest story you will see in a short graphic novel. One day Youme meets Anthony “Tony” Horton in the subway. Tony shows her a world that few know […]



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