Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

My high school years were never this interesting

Thieves by Lucie Bryon

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Ella and Madeleine are two girls who do not really realize the other likes them. All Ella does is start sweat oceans when she admires her from a far. But due to a stupid drunken event, Ella wakes up one morning and learns that she has stolen some things from the party from the night before. Because of Ella’s BFF, she is tossed together with Madeline the day after, but is caught red handed with the stash. But before that Madeline has made the confession […]

My Whackadoo brain found some cool reads

Murderbot Diaries V02 Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

Hilo Book 6: All the Pieces Fit by Judd Winick

This is How I Disappear by Mirion Malle

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My mood this week and reading has been all over this week. I found three different genres to get me through it. Not only have I done a crap tone of picture books just for the quick read, I had to find humor, serious, and a mixture of the two. I finished Murderbot Diaries V02 Artificial Condition by Martha Wells. I prefer the first one but did like the ending where Murderbot makes an interesting realization about how they have always just waited and “cleaned […]

Hawaiian culture and nonbinary identities

Ho’onani: Hula Warrior by Heather Gale

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Ho’onani: Hula Warrior is and is not hard to talk about. But after you say a young dancer finds her place in her society and the male hula troupe at school by being herself, you have said it all. I mean you can say how her family (but not her sister) supports her choice of being nāhū (not wahine (female) or kane or kāne (I have found both spellings) (male) but in between) and how that came about, but that takes away from the story […]

Proud Pride

This Little Rainbow: A Love-Is-Love Primer and Pride 1 2 3 by Joan Holub

Pride 1 2 3 by Michael Joosten

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This Little Rainbow: A Love-Is-Love Primer and Pride 1 2 3 are not pushy but are at times can be borderline. Joan Holub’s This Little addition with Pride leaders is good but feels a bit advanced for the board book reader. And Pride 1 2 3 has been done before, so it feels like the subject is being pushed. Now both are a few years old, therefore, it might be a case of at the time they were fresh, but now I have read so […]

Turn back the clock and see how it started

History Comics: The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights by Archie Bongiovanni 

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I give History Comics: The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights by Archie Bongiovanni  a four for the story idea and showing history in this genre/format. But it loses a point due to the time traveling aspect. The fact this was a major point of GLBT+ rights mean that having 21st century people in 1969 allows the smallest thing to cause a butterfly effect and could have changed history. However, that aside the look at the struggles of Stonewall is well done with contemporary […]

Love, Ghosts and Werewolves

Blackwater by Jeannette Arroyo and Ren Graham

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I found a way to read Blackwater by Jeannette Arroyo and Ren Graham online. Now, I will tell you, buy the book in July instead of doing this. I mean, I read the book that way and still plan on purchasing a copy. Not only do you support an author/illustrator this way, but you will also want to read this book wherever you are. And if you have no service for phone or tablet or whatever kids read on these days, well old school is […]



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