Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Kind Sister World

The Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship. by Ibihaj Muhammad

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Picture books have been my life line of late, and one of my more favorites is, The Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship. This is a companion book to another Ibihaj Muhammad, S.K. Ali, Hatem Aly creation, The Proudest Blue. While this time, I was not as taken, I enjoyed reading it. We are exposed to not just another culture but we have a sibling story as well. We see how we can create our own special worlds, like a kindness world, or […]

When your food talks

What the Bread Says: Baking with Love, History and Papan by Vanessa Garcia

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What the Bread Says: Baking with Love, History and Papan is that this Vanessa Garcia and Tim Plain book is too short. Or maybe that is just me thinking that. Either way, Garcia talks about how bread can tell you something about where it comes from, the people who make it and more. We follow the young narrator as she and her Papan (grandfather/pan means bread in Spanish) make different types of bread. At the same time, her grandfather gives her a story as well […]

Four weddings, but not a funeral in sight

Four Weddings to Fall in Love by Jackie Lau

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This was an ARC that I received from the author. It has not affected my opinions or swayed me in any way, although I will say that I also pre-ordered the book and paid for a copy with my own money, because Jackie Lau is a worthy auto-buy contender. Max Mok meets Kim Sun at a wedding and is smitten with her from the first. She clearly likes him enough to invite him to her hotel room after the reception, but Max isn’t really used […]

The Winter of Our Discontent

Bliss Montage by Ling Ma

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In Bliss Montage, a woman and her family live in the same house as her one hundred ex-boyfriends, women trapped in a toxic friendship take a drug that makes themselves invisible, and a pregnant woman must caretake the protruding arm of her fetus as she awaits giving birth to the rest of it. The distance from everyday life that fantasy brings us can be used to magnify reality, and Ling Ma takes takes ample advantage of this in Bliss Montage, a short story collection that examines […]

CBR15 Bingo: Queer Lives (Bingo)

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

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CBR15 Bingo: Queer Lives In July, the Forever Young Adult Reading Challenge prompt was Banned Books. Since All Boys Aren’t Blue was the second most banned book in America during the 2021-2022 school year, only beaten by Gender Queer, and I’d had the book on my digital bookshelf for a while, it felt like a suitable book to choose. This book was also one of the book club selections last year for the Cannonball book club, when we did banned books (this year we did […]

The new Guardian Knights

Juniper Mae Volume One: Knight of Tykotech City by Sarah Soh

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I had a small adventure when I first tried to read Juniper Mae Volume One: Knight of Tykotech City. Nothing fancy, just I had an online link, lost it, then found it again. Who knows how that happened; but it did. Then recently I went back to my stored online reader copies and was deleting the links that were no longer active. But Sarah Soh’s short graphic novel was. And since this was published March 2023 you can run out and get the book, too. […]



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