Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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I’d like to be friends with the characters of these books

Johnny Tunes and the Gandy Dancers by Pamela M Tuck, Joel S Tuck, and Jerry Jordan

The Northbound Train: A Story of the Great Migration by Leslie Johnson Piotrowski and Tonya Engel

Solar Mamas: The Story of Sanjit "Bunker" Roy and the Grandmothers Who Became Solar Engineers by Jyothi Nookula and Nabi H. Ali

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Three picture books, all read via online reader copies, that everyone should have in their collections (be you teacher, parent, child, student, or other) are the below. Johnny Tunes and the Gandy Dancers by Pamela M Tuck, Joel S Tuck, Jerry Jordan (Illustrator) (due September 2026).   The Northbound Train: A Story of the Great Migration (A Picture Book) by Leslie Johnson Piotrowski, Tonya Engel (Illustrated by) (due January 2027).  Solar Mamas: The Story of Sanjit “Bunker” Roy and the Grandmothers Who Became Solar Engineers by […]

Wakeup call to the nation: thoughts and prayers alone aren’t enough

Soft Targets: Guns in America and the Kids Caught in the Crossfire by Camila Kerwin

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I will start my review of Soft Targets: Guns in America and the Kids Caught in the Crossfire by Camila Kerwin, with my usual explanation about my position on guns. I respect your choice of being pro or anti guns. However, I grew up in a home with guns. We had rules about them and consequences if we did not follow them. I grew up knowing my mother could out shoot my father when they met. Most of my family hunted. I am a fan […]

Pet and founder of a publishing company

A Poem for Dudley Randall: Poet and Publisher of the Black Arts Movement (A Picture Book Biography) by Don Tate and Laura Freeman

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Outside of saying A Poem for Dudley Randall: Poet and Publisher of the Black Arts Movement (A Picture Book Biography) by Don Tate and illustrated by Laura Freeman is a picture book biography of the man Dudley Randall, you can’t say a lot else about the theme. Sure I could say I read via an online reader copy, it is due in mid September 2026, I enjoyed learning about a person I had never heard of, and with the facts Tate included some of Randall’s […]

A harrowing journey in 93 pages.

Happening by Annie Ernaux

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“Thousands of girls have climbed up stairs and knocked on a door answered by a woman who is a complete stranger, to whom they are about to entrust their stomach and womb. And that woman, the only person who can rid them of their misfortune, would open the door, in an apron and patterned slippers, clutching a dish towel, and inquire, “yes, miss, can i help you?” I had been casually looking for this book (which was strangely expensive on Kindle, although the price seems […]

A cat lover’s guide to grief and mourning

All my dead cats and other losses by s. e. smith

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CBR18 Bingo – Repair is one way to think about grief. Or not. And if not, it’s what society needs to properly allow for human grief. All my dead cats and other losses: practicing good grief in a culture that fears mourning by s. e. smith says it’s not just about dead cats. It has a lot of dead cats though. The author uses the cats in their life to discuss grief and mourning in and out of society’s accepted grief borders – specifically, North […]

Not the most fun of road trips

America the Beautiful? by Blythe Roberson

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My husband recommended America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled (2023) by Blythe Roberson. I have a bit of a contest going with my oldest brother to see who can get to more U.S. national parks (I’m winning), and this book seemed on point. Roberson was taking an epic summer road trip to visit every U.S. National Park in the lower 48 that she hadn’t yet been to. I chose at the time not to read it, but this summer […]



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