Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The forecast is clear

Zeke the Weather Geek: There’s a Lizard in my Blizzard by Joan Axelrod-Contrada and Ann Malaspina

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CBR15Passport Different genres (science fact and fiction mixed) I am not sure if I liked Zeke the Weather Geek: There’s a Lizard in my Blizzard. I know I did not dislike it, but like? You see this is a fun story about weather, friendship and doing your best. It has some illustrations and modern touches. There are also a few “old school” parts that make it cozy and familiar, plus a bit on the fresher side. But there was nothing in Joan Axelrod-Contrada and Ann […]

Wear ya boots

Farm Boots by Lisl H. Detlefsen

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If you have a shoe feetish, I mean fetish, then this is the boots for …. I mean book for you. Okay, Farm Boots by Lisl H. Detlefsen is not an adult book, but it does have some really cute boots for the characters to wear in this rhyming book.  Each person has a specific boot for a specific job and for lots of play. Here we see boots for mud, boots for puddles, boots for riding and boots for mucking out the stalls (make […]

Nerdy lesbian romance

How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow

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How to Excavate a Heart is a book that hit so many good and familiar notes for me. Shani has just finished her first semester at college where she also got her first girlfriend, who broke up with her just before the start of winter break. Luckily Shani got accepted to an internship that the Smithsonian museum of natural history where she’ll work under her idol on coelacanth fossils, giving her distance from home and something to put her focus towards that isn’t her broken […]

Baby it is Flipping (only I didn’t say flipping) cold outside

I Survived the Children’s Blizzard, 1888 (I Survived, #16) by Lauren Tarshis

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cbr14bingo Cold  Level 1 & 2   (Images taken from online)   I Survived the Children’s Blizzard, 1888 (I Survived, #16) by Lauren Tarshis is an easy read for stronger readers but could capture some reluctant readers with the boy narrator and the adventure of the blizzard. The ages could start as young as six or seven for the more advanced reader, as there is little in the way of content that could be considered “too much” (I am sure cartoons and movies today have […]

Baby it’s cold outside (for a couple thousands years) now

What Was the Ice Age? by Nico Medina

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One of the nice things about a subject and not a person is, while you can contest some facts or you are always adding to the knowledge at hand, a theme like The Ice Age is not necessarily controversial (compared to someone like Walt Disney, Michael Jackson, Helen Keller, or even Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.). Therefore, when I was reading this addition to the “Who/What” series I was really reading it and not wondering, “Are they going to mention X?” Or “Will they get […]

Hubris is the name of the game.

Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson

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This was just an okay read for me. A narrative non-fiction account of the hurricane in 1900 that was one of the most destructive in American history, Isaac’s Storm is really a feat of research and documentation. It’s clear Larson did his homework. It just never really grabbed me, until it did grab me but in a very unpleasant way. Larson painstakingly accounts the days leading up to the hurricane, mostly focusing on Isaac Cline, who headed up the Galveston, TX branch of the weather […]



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