Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Zrrrrooooommm!

Tyrrell Racing: The Champion Years and Beyond by David Oliver

by Leave a Comment

When I was a junior in high school, my BFF and I saw a movie that quite literally changed our lives.  That was Grand Prix and the whole Formula 1 racing scene, set in various European countries, absolutely captured us completely.  (The hot British driver didn’t hurt, either.)  We saw it 17 times through the next year in theaters, not easy for a couple of teenagers with not much money to do.  We then made a vow that we would go after we graduated from […]

The Ghost of Memories

There's a Ghost in the Garden by Kyo Maclear

by Leave a Comment

There is a message inside of There’s a Ghost in the Garden by Kyo Maclear, but it is one that will be different for each reader. Also, it is okay if you just enjoy the words of Maclear, the flow of text and the illustrations (by Katty Maurey) without taking any meaning from them. It works on both levels allowing the reader to take what is needed at each listen and/or reading.  This can work for many ages, though it is for slightly older listeners/readers. […]

Hungry?

100 Chapatis by Derek Mascarenhas

by Leave a Comment

cbr15bingo Edibles: While not just another “food book” this book is about how food connects family When I first looked at 100 Chapatis I figured it was another food book. And it is; and it isn’t. What it is about is the love a grandparent/grandfather and grandchild/grandson have together. It is about their culture. It is about their food. It is about remembering the grandmother. And it is about having patience when your new sibling is on the way. It also is about the worries […]

A short essay I heard about on NPR and needed to know more

On Grief: Love, Loss, Memory by Jennifer Senior

by 1 Comment

I heard Jennifer Senior talking to one of the NPR hosts one day about this short story. It drew me in, and I wanted to read the whole thing. This was a short essay, but the characters (who are real people) were very well described and I felt like I was interacting with them. The main story is about Bobby McIlvaine, who worked in one of the twin towers and died in the September 11th attacks. Bobby had written journals starting in his childhood, up […]

The message is not just on the wall

The Crows by Anders Fager

by Leave a Comment

I recently read this creepy graphic novel called, The Crows. At first, it acted like it might be one of two things: either a ghost story where the main character is haunted by the ghost of (fill in the blank) a parent(s), grandparent(s), their former self, or some real monster/ghost. Or it would be a descent into madness and everything was hallucinations, just in the characters head. There was the possibility of lots of gore and blood, but that only came into play once physically; […]

What if you could weaponize memories?

The Memory Thief by Lauren Mansy

by Leave a Comment

Lauren Mansy’s The Memory Thief was the Mocha Girls Read book club read for October. I appreciate how all my book clubs push me to read stories I may not have picked on my own. I love the YA fantasy genre, so I was intrigued by the premise of using memories as power. In this world, the Gifted can take memories and weaponize them by forcing bad memories on other people. There’s an evil tyrant named Madame who enjoys wielding memories for cruel means and […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo