Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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 […]

Three Cakes, Brownies, Cookies and S’mores

Just the Right Cake by Christina Tosi

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Just the Right Cake by Christina Tosi starts off like any other cake book. It is raining so it is the perfect day to bake a cake. But if you ask Phil, he will tell you it would be a good day to bake a cake even if it was sunny. You see, Phil loves baking with his mom and dad. But today is different. It is just him and his mom. But even though the cake is made like they always did, something is […]

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Welcome: A Mo Willems Guide for New Arrivals by Mo Willems

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Seriously, I know many adults who could use Welcome: A Mo Willems Guide for New Arrivals. Classic Willems humor falls off each page (wait, that was me and my chair …) I read several pages out loud (and one reading dealt with the poop page. Shocking, I know. Me finding poop funny…) This introduction to the world tells us there will be cats (well, the book has a drawing of a cat, but the narrator tells the listener that there will be real cats, too). […]

I like Haley Rocco. John Rocco? Not so much.

How to Send a Hug by Hayley Rocco

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I admit it. Even this old grump teared up at the end of How to Send a Hug. And it was not the words of Hayley Rocco, though those are sweet. It was that darn page at the end where everyone is receiving their hugs! So, “Bad John Rocco! Bad!” Seriously though, this is a delightful story about how to send a hug to someone who is far away. I am sure we have not seen the last of the Covid related issues, therefore, making […]

When Grandma Flies

The Bird Feeder by Andrew Larsen

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A child and their very loved grandmother have a unique bond in The Bird Feeder. Despite their ages, the two of them share common interests. They like to spend time together drawing and watching the bird feeder outside the grandmother’s window. But one day, the grandmother moves into hospice care and the child decides that things can be the same even if they are no longer in the same house. And they bring grandmothers birdfeeder to be outside her new window. Of course, one day […]

The racing striped and helmeted tortoise

Hurry, Little Tortoise, Time for School by Carrie Finison

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I am not always a fan of “the turtle or tortoise or snail comes in last because they are slow” stories.  (I still cringe at the end scene in Monsters University where the snail-monster-student gets to class after the year has ended.) Now, I do not necessarily want them to be first, (Tortoise and the Hair is great, just not all the time), I want to see other animals have the distinction of being last, or the slow one. I mean, we all have a […]



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