Cannonball Read 18

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Little Fish, Big Pond/Country Mouse-City Mouse

Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year by Ramsey Beyer.

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I enjoyed the graphic novel Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year by Ramsey Beyer. The story was fairly familiar, but at the time it would have been a newer story as I think coming of age and graphic novels were just finding their place in the genre of young adult. The way Beyer made the book is clever and even now would be considered fresh. I am curious to find more works by them. Plus, I have questions I need answered […]

Fluffy Bunnies

The Wild Season: The Remarkable True Story of a Rabbit Rescue by Dashka Slater

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One reason I do not always like non-fiction books is that they can read like the longest, dullest speech given. A speech in any language but the one you listen/read/know in. And The Wild Season: The Remarkable True Story of a Rabbit Rescue by Dashka Slater is not one of those. It is a fun story. It is based on a true event but is read as fiction. Of course, the author does not superimpose their own thoughts (the boy thought, “Gee that bunny is […]

Art…. there is a reason it rhymes with a bodily function, but not for Jo van Gogh!

Light, Letters, and Love: How Jo van Gogh Saved Vincent's Paintings for the World by Donna Cangelosi and Elisa Paganelli

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I appreciate art, even if I do not partially understand or like it. And honestly, Vincent van Gogh is one of those artists that I can appreciate, but I’m just not a fan. I never “got him” or why he is considered great. The Sunflowers? Yeah that’s a nope for me. But thankfully for those of you who are fans, his sister-in-law, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, was a fan who not only understood his work, she kept them even after his death. Even after others told […]

That’s The Way That The World Goes ‘Round

Living in the Present with John Prine by Tom Piazza

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Very few celebrity deaths have effected me as much as that of John Prine, who passed away after contracting Covid-19 early on in the pandemic. Prine is one of the greatest songwriters America has produced, and his catalogue is full of wryly funny, semi-tragic, sideways looks at life that endeared him to discerning listeners for decades. “Hello in There”, “Sam Stone”, “Angel From Montgomery” and “Far From Me” are just a few of his many legendary songs. In 2018, the writer Tom Piazza approached Prine […]

A story of the people through the eyes of the author

Hmong: A Graphic History by Vicky Lyfoung

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Hmong: A Graphic History by Vicky Lyfoung is a little under 200 pages and most of those are dedicated to the history of the Hmong people.  Which is really fun. Or interesting. Or unique. Or well, all the above and more. We probably know little to nothing about the Hmong history and people, which is a shame as they have a very rich culture and background.   The book fits the genre of nonfiction, biography, graphic novel, historical, history, culture,  politics, religion, war, and is […]

Sorry to Be Such a Downer

Girl Walks into a Bar... by Rachel Dratch

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  This is the third memoir I’ve read by a female Saturday Night Live castmember from the 2000s, after Tina Fey’s Bossypants and Amy Poehler’s Yes, Please. Sadly, this is clearly the bronze medalist of the group. (Fey’s book is far and away the best of the three.) Dratch was on SNL for quite a long time, though she is probably best remembered for her Debbie Downer sketches, wherein the character’s propensity for negativity could bring down the mood in any situation. Though, perhaps ironically, Dratch’s delivery […]



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