Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Free Spirit Publishing has some neat books

Thank You, Night by Dan McCauley

Thank You, Rain by Dan McCauley

B Is for Belonging by Shannon Anderson

Hello, Beech Tree! by Rasha Hamid

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A while back I saw two online reader copies that had intriguing covers (or thumbnails of the cover as it was only a small image). I liked them, but figured I knew what they were about by judging the cover. Thank You, Night and Thank You, Rain looked like they would be nice father and child stories. One set at night and one set in/around a rainy day. And I was not wrong. (Yes, I read them eventually.) They had more to them than those […]

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 […]

Deep down, we’re all weird

Goblin Mode by McKayla Coyle

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McKayla Coyle’s Goblin Mode, is a bit of an odd choice for me to review, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Personally, I don’t really have a well formed aesthetic. I like what I like and none of it really matches or fits a philosophy or lifestyle. However, I appreciate goblincore’s rejection of Capitalism and conformity. I’m not so much into the nature aspects of goblincore (I have allergies), but I appreciate the weirdness, the clutter, the comfort, and the not fitting in to a mainstream […]

Sending kindness

Share Your Love by Susan B. Katz

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Susan B. Katz might want you to Share Your Love, but I wish they had not done it in rhyming text. However, since I am not the technical audience for the book (which I would say would be a four- to eight-year-old), that is okay. It will work for that younger crowd. This makes things fun, light, and bouncy. This is a “kindness meditation” (as the publisher description says) but since I am not a fan of the word mediation (has too many connotations of […]

Born under gray skies, painting the sun

To See Clearly: A Portrait of David Hockney by Evan Turk

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Who is David Hockney? I had no idea before reading To See Clearly: A Portrait of David Hockney. Or at least, I might have known the paintings (this picture book shows Hockney’s style interpreted by the author/illustrator Evan Turk), but not the name. The story is straight forward. Turk says, “David did this, that and the other thing.” He we “here, there, and someplace else.” However, there are a few facts that are tossed out, sit down, and say, “Whatcha gunna do about it?” Such […]

Life-changing concept, underwhelming book.

The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking

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  I feel like this review is liable to have more words in it than the book did. I’m years late to the hygge train – I was vaguely familiar with the concept when it got big in America a couple years ago, but never really paid attention to it. Well, here I am now, and let me make it clear that I am a convert. There’s finally a word for the feeling I feel with candles lit and a thunderstorm outside! That powerful feeling […]



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