Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


29 Minutes to Yummy

The 29-Minute Vegan by Isa Chandra Moskowitz

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Isa Chandra Moskowitz is probably my favorite cookbook author; the recipes are good, not boring, not too fussy, and you don’t have to wade through pages of narrative to get to each recipe. The 29-Minute Vegan is so titled because “thirty was already taken, and everyone could use an extra minute in their day.” To achieve the general time frame, there are a set of seven general principles including the one that kind made me wonder a little, “prep as you cook, cook as you […]

The book that is NSFW and yet somehow I got away with reading it there…..

That Sexy Bea by Owlin

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That Sexy Bear by Lin Visel and Joseph Bergin III (or Owlin) is totally and completely screwed up. And that is being really polite! I really don’t want to go on as it left a funky taste in my mouth. It feels soapy. Why? Because I needed a 10 hour bath after reading with a lot of soap to wash all the parts as the whole experience was creepy AF. OMG there are women’s breasts, and natural who-ha’s hanging out; there are a couple of […]

Superheroes to the…. rescue?

Maker Girl and Professor Smarts by Jasmine Florentine

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Deep in the collection of my online reader links, Maker Girl and Professor Smarts by Jasmine Florentine showed up and I read it via that manner. Currently available, I’m glad I read this book via the online way for this cute and silly superhero story. While there was nothing wrong with the book, everything was not for me and therefore, I did not need a physical copy to keep. It is great for the second grade on up, as it has all the elements younger […]

My Meh Reading of Recent

My Vegan Year by Niki Webster

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With a title like My Vegan Year, you’d expect a book to either be more of a memoir, or a guide to seasonality. Somehow this book manages to be neither. It is a vegan  guide of sorts, with lists and  general discussion that might be useful, including pantry basics, produce by season (in the UK), and vegan lifestyle (like clothing and skincare).  It’s got some recipes too, but that’s  where things get random.  Each season has some combination of various meals, but there’s no clear […]

Humpty Doos and Swingles and Citrus History

Citrus: A World History by David J Mabberley

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Technically this is going to be a DNF, but not because I didn’t like it; I just ran out of time and library renewals. Citrus: A World History is an interesting cross between textbook and coffee table book. It’s got the pretty pictures, many from historical records, in combination with blocks of dense but detailed information about where citrus may have originated, different varieties that have appeared, and what people have done with them over a couple of millennia. There are sections on different eras, […]

Filipino Food Sounds Goods

Make It Plant Based: Filipino by Ria Elciario-McKeown

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It seems kind of rare to get a cookbook focused on a lesser well known cuisine that is not loaded with hard to find ingredients. Make It Plant Based: Filipino actually manages to be both vegan and ethnic without requiring too many unheard of ingredients, and also actually manages to make its cuisine pretty user friendly to someone (me) totally unfamiliar. Full disclosure: I haven’t actually tried anything out of here yet, but I will. There is a brief introduction that manages to not preach […]



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