Cannonball Read 18

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Bob Ross bio for kids

You Can Move Mountains: The Artful Life of Painter Bob Ross by Richard Ho and Daniel Miyares

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There is one complaint I have about You Can Move Mountains: The Artful Life of Painter Bob Ross by Richard Ho and illustrated by Daniel Miyares (it came out in August 2026; ut read via an online reader before that date, and took forever to post this review) is that the images of Bob Ross himself do not exactly look like him. You know it is him, but it is just a smidgen off. What is not off is that the illustrations that represent his […]

Little People, Big Dreams in one spot

Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury: 50 Stories of Brilliant Dreamers by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and various illustrators

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Do you think that when Mozart was first performing, people realized they were living at the same time as someone who would have a centuries long influence on music? Do you think someone heard Freddie Mercury sing and said, “That boy is going to live forever?” Or did they realize they were walking on the Earth along with Neil Armstrong? It was not until recently that I realized Salvador Dali and I were breathing the same air!  Not to mention, I was living at the […]

The boy, the wardrobe, the legacy

The Boy Behind the Wardrobe: How C.S. Lewis Grew Up to Create Narnia by Suzanne Poulter Harris and Mira Miroslavova

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The Boy Behind the Wardrobe: How C.S. Lewis Grew Up to Create Narnia by Suzanne Poulter Harris and illustrated by Mira Miroslavova (due mid-late October 2026; read via an online reader). Most people have read the C.S. Lewis series of Narnia. I am not most people. Granted, a teacher did read one or two to us in about third or fourth grade, but I really do not remember them. I do vaguely remember the movies of a few years back (pre X-Men James McAvoy), but […]

As I got older and mercifully more aware of what a precious gift a healthy working body is, I felt ashamed and bewildered that I could have treated mine so badly.

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

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CBR18 Bingo: Left – Feeling left behind by friends, by partners, and being unable to achieve the next perceived life milestone that everyone seems to be completing. The transitional state of a long journey has always seemed to me the most romantic and magical of places to find yourself in; marooned in a cozy pod of your own thoughts, suspended in midair, traveling through a wad of silent, blank pages between two chapters. ― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love I gave almost all […]

Women mind your business.

Courageous Cowgirls: Women Who Rode the Trails, Ran Ranches, and Raced in Rodeos by Sue Young and Katie Howerton

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Why yes. Yes, women should mind their own business. Especially if you are one of the women in this book that could and would barrel ride, cattle drive, steal back horses and guns, not to mention run chuck wagons and their own cattle businesses. In Courageous Cowgirls: Women Who Rode the Trails, Ran Ranches, and Raced in Rodeos you see women who did this and more (though stealing back your husband’s gun and your cattle a few hundred at time is impressive enough). This book […]

what a long belated recommendation that ended up being spectacular

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

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CBR Bingo: steal, bc although this book has actually been given to me (aka it’s been borrowed to me, if that makes sense) it has been something like ~2 years of borrowing and returning and borrowing again and again so for all intents and purposes Britt has not had access to this book in ages After reading all of that, I was struck most/recency bias makes me seize on the very last sentence, dedicated to Machado’s wife [redacted] (worry not, it is not the unnamed […]



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