Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Sky gazers and the Solar Eclipse

A Few Beautiful Minutes: Experiencing a Solar Eclipse by Kate Allen Fox

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With current events coming up in a few days this April 2024, I thought it would be fun to read a book called A Few Beautiful Minutes: Experiencing a Solar Eclipse by Kate Allen Fox and illustrations by Khoa Le. The story itself is nice, but it is the illustrations that grabbed me. A lot of the time I am not a huge fan of “too cartoony” when it comes to a  story that might be more serious. Yet, they mix a realistic approach with […]

“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.”

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

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After graduating from college, Chris McCandless vanished from his former life and took to the road. The next that his family heard about him was several years later, when he was discovered to have starved to death in the remote Alaskan wilderness. I love Krakauer’s writing, astute and lyrical, and the way he tells this story makes me feel like I’m peering into the abyss of mortality he describes encountering on his ascent of Devils Thumb. Into Thin Air is one of my favorite books […]

My addition is being feed with books to read

Hello Face by Aya Khalil

Can You Find Doug’s Dog? by Jane Caston

Firefly Galaxy by Sarah Nelson

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My bookdealer came through for me again. This time I had around a half dozen finished, real life, copies of titles (though all are officially due April 2024).  I will start with Hello Body! Hello Face! (or Hello Face! Hello Body! I’ve seen it both ways) as it was the one that slipped out of the package first, and since I had a few minutes, read first. However, the rest were longer, and as I was at work, wait I must!  Hello Face by Aya […]

Breathtaking, thoughtful

Wildful by Kengo Kurimoto

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I was hanging out in a vehicle, waiting for the driver to come out of the grocery store. I had a few books with me and decided to pick the biggest one up (well, longest physically/horizontally) as the sun was hitting me right in the eyes and thought maybe it would block things. It mostly did, as it was (as I said) horizontal and not the usual vertical style. And what this book turned into was not just a poor woman’s sunshade, but one of […]

The Moon is out tonight

The Moon Tonight: Our Moon's Journey Around the Earth by Jung Chang-hoon

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A year ago, a book came out. Well a lot came out, but I did not learn of this particular book until a little over a year later. The Moon Tonight: Our Moon’s Journey Around the Earth by Jung Chang-hoon is about the moon. But not just “the facts” or even everything about the moon. The author focuses on the waxing and waning of the moon. We follow the moon’s cycles. The text is older, though it is a picture book, therefore the age it […]

Pancakes, britches and home

Pancakes for Findus (Findus and Pettson) by Sven Nordqvist

The Van Buren Sisters vs. the Pants Police by J.F. Fox

A Garden Called Home by Jessica J. Lee and Elaine Chen

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Picture books are a great way to read books and have fun as well. You not only read a book (and can read several in a day: Think of a tailor and some flies and “seven in one blow”), but you can learn something. Like how to make pancakes out of your pants, or what britches are, and even that some plants need snow to help them grow. And not only that, you can just have a delightful story you can solo read or read […]



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