Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The new Guardian Knights

Juniper Mae Volume One: Knight of Tykotech City by Sarah Soh

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I had a small adventure when I first tried to read Juniper Mae Volume One: Knight of Tykotech City. Nothing fancy, just I had an online link, lost it, then found it again. Who knows how that happened; but it did. Then recently I went back to my stored online reader copies and was deleting the links that were no longer active. But Sarah Soh’s short graphic novel was. And since this was published March 2023 you can run out and get the book, too. […]

I thought grandfathers were supposed to be cuddly

The Inventor Vol. 1: The Dangerous Discovery by Lars Henrik Eriksen

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Online reader copies have slowly gotten into my reading “pile” for books. Well, one site has and it is dangerous! Dangerous! But then I got an email from Papercutz. Oh how I enjoy them, but how I grumble at the fact they too are online. Unless I want to wait until the end of January 2024/early February 2024 for The Inventor Vol. 1: The Dangerous Discovery. Which, I did not. As it is, it will be hard enough to wait for volume two of this […]

Cracked crockery is a thing of the past!

Josephine and Her Dishwashing Machine : Josephine Cochrane's Bright Invention Makes a Splash by Kate Hannigan

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As mentioned in a previous review(s) I have been going through my online reader copy links.  And I was picking out the older ones (those from mid and late 2022 to about four or five months ago), and I found Josephine and Her Dishwashing Machine : Josephine Cochrane’s Bright Invention Makes a Splash Kate Hannigan and illustrated by Sarah Green. Currently available, as said, I read online. The book report part of this review is that while the woman inventor has been seen before, I […]

A genius scientist and her evil nemesis some aliens, a talking goat and a toilet weasel

Billie Blaster and the Robot Army from Outer Space  by Laini Taylor

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cbr15bingo On the air:  Spaceship in space because a signal from an old robot friend is sent back to Earth that starts Billie’s adventures  Billie Blaster and the Robot Army from Outer Space  is a good solid 3.5 rating. It was not “OMG Best book ever!” but I enjoyed it. The humor is typical kid, there is a message (though maybe slightly glossed over), and there is a fun premise (though I really really wish there was a particular room on the spaceship….) Overall, ages […]

Look Ma, this is how the Internet works!

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. The blurb from Goodreads: An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking–and why we all need to understand it. It’s a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our information is stored, used, and protected, we are vulnerable to having it exploited. In Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, Scott J. Shapiro draws […]

Hi ho off to Mars we go

Ready, Set, Mars by Katie Jaffe

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I have a confession. I had read Ready, Set, Mars several days before writing my review. I had a draft saved (drafts are done to sort out ideas) and it was saved as Mars. Um… Mars? What was that book? It was Katie Jaffe and Jennifer Lawson’s picture book due in late August 2023. I needed to start again, this time browsing the text and focusing on the art. It came back to me, and I was thinking that I remembered it, and why I […]



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