Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

This Discworld book has been recommended for D&D players so I finally checked it out.

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

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Nearly twenty years ago I gave Pratchett’s Discworld books a chance.  I had a long commute and been gifted audiobooks of the first few books in the series.  I listened to about the first three books and then decided they weren’t for me.  They felt gimmicky with a focus on clever ways of saying modern things without using current words.  For some reason, calling popcorn ‘banged grains’ sticks out in my memory as an example.  But over the years I kept seeing the devotion readers […]

A boy and his crane

Love Made Me More by Colleen Rowan Kosinski

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A boy’s grandmother shows him how to make an origami crane. Then, the boy and that colorful crane become very good friends after that. All of this is told to us by the voice of the Crane. It tells us all the adventures the two of them have in Love Made Me More. Colleen Rowan Kosinski’s story allows us into the mind of a favorite toy. The boy of the story does all sorts of things with the paper Crane and finally starts to outgrow the […]

Bunny… I mean Buddy… Story

Bunny & Tree by Balint Zsako

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The publisher description of Bunny & Tree by Balint Zsako is around 140 words. Which is 140 more words than the book has. The cover does not even have the title on the front. And since I read it via an online reader copy from Edelweiss (due April 2023), I am not sure if it is on the spine. Of course, tht does not include the title page information. This book is a series of illustrations about a rabbit and a tree that have adventures. […]

Dystopian Utopia

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

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Imagine a future where war, poverty, crime, illness, disease and death have been conquered. Sounds like paradise, right? But the thing is, without death, the world becomes overpopulated and all the problems return. In Scythe, the first book in a trilogy, Neal Shusterman imagines this world where all knowledge and information is overseen by a god-like universal information storage system called the Thunderhead and where the world population is “managed” by individuals called scythes. Scythes are feared and revered and are an authority unto themselves. […]

Trains, Santa, and more

ThunderBoom by Jack Briglio

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ThunderBoom by Jack Briglio is a graphic novel about 11-year-old Logan and the adventures he has in his imagination. Which seems normal enough, but Logan’s neurodivergence creates a take on life that makes his relationship to the world and his family and the people around him, hard on him. And hard on his family, too. The nice part of the story is the realism of his parents. They are both overprotected and concerned, but also allow Logan to dominate his environment. It has a modern […]

What a Mother

Tales of Great Goddesses: Gaia: Goddess of Earth by Imogen Greenberg

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Tales of Great Goddesses: Gaia: Goddess of Earth by Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg on the illustrations is a picture book graphic novel that shows how the “Sisterhood fights the Drums of Chaos” (their words not mine). Or in other words, it is a modern take on the Greek mythology with a pro-female look. Gaia is the Earth and the Mother of All. She created the world, and she ruled the land and Earth, while her husband the sky. And then the trouble starts. From here […]



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