Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

It’s All About The Feeeeemaaaaales

Perfect Crime by Helen Fields

The Donor by Clare Mackintosh

Fractured by Karin Slaughter

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The Perfect Crime (Helen Fields) *** Stephen Berry is having a rough night. Or a rough life, really; he cannot seem to get his bipolar disorder under control and his long-suffering girlfriend has left him. Desperate for some quiet, he intents to jump off a bridge, but a suicide counsellor who happens to be nearby intervenes. Stephen is quietly grateful, but then his body is found dead a few weeks later at the bottom of a tall tower. The cause of death seems like a […]

After writing this, I learned we are still making breakthroughs in this field! 

Fever: How Tu Youyou Adapted Traditional Chinese Medicine to Find a Cure for Malaria by Darcy Pattinson

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Have you heard of Tu Youyou? She is a Chinese scientist who used traditional Chinese medicine to help cure malaria. And she was not from the 1800s or even early 20th century when we think of malaria research happening, but she was working during the late 1960s and 1970s in a People’s Republic of China task force. Therefore, relatively “new” in the grand picture. And not only did she and other scientists figure out the right ingredients, amounts, heat, and such, she was one of […]

Once upon a time, there was a witch….and a princess

Heartless Prince by Angela De Vito

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I am not sure if I have missed a book in a series, or Heartless Prince is the first and the set up for a series, but there was something missing for me. I needed a score card to keep track of the names of the characters as they had similar names or had “fantasy” names and that was confusing. The artwork is strong, and expressive, but nothing “popped out” at me. Overall, it is a decent book but not the best. This would probably […]

“The world needs all types of minds.” ― Temple Grandin

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca

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Dr. Temple Grandin must have something new coming out, has an important birthday or the fact autism is getting a push again right now, as we have had a review of an adult book about her, and now I have found the picture book, The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin. This is a picture book by Julia Finley Mosca and therefore, is not going to go into extreme detail, and obviously does not go into the controversies around her. […]

I’d Pay So Much to See this as a Movie

The Change by Kirsten Miller

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When picking up the actual book I ordered at the library, I was lured in by their “new releases” display. The book jacket of The Change promised some menopause-induced magic, a murder mystery, and three bada** women taking down some powerful men on the backdrop of a coastal New  York town. So of course I picked it up, and it was an absolutely delightful ride. Harriet, Nessa, and Jo are three women in their 50s going through a rough time. Harriet’s husband leaves her for a […]

Yes, an artist

Maybe an Artist, a Graphic Memoir by Elizabeth Montague

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Maybe an Artist, a Graphic Memoir by Elizabeth Montague is a simple, but expressive and sweet memoir about how one person became the artist they are today. It was not an easy path, filled with boys, school, friendship, social themes, and siblings, but it was one that we can all relate too. Montague added their delightful artwork to accompany the text. This story seems simple enough, but it is the one where a young 22-year-old woman became one of the first black female cartoonists at […]



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