Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

And Wait. Weren’t We Just Here?

The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson

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cbr category time So this one was ordered from the library, from my decades long, very long list of Books To Order from the library, and hell if I know why.  Usually I can see fifteen-years-younger me might have wanted to read it, but not this one.  Because apocalyptic drama is not my thing, and that’s exactly what this was. The Stone Gods is written in sections that continue to circle back, or as the author puts it, “a repeating world”.  And the world is […]

“Florence, stop encouraging the housemaids to unionize.”

The Prince of Broadway by Joanna Shupe

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Shupe is a very, very uneven author for me. I took a gander at my list of her books and it’s about evenly split between “good”, “eh”, and DNFs. This falls into the “I didn’t like it, but I didn’t dislike it enough to DNF it” category. Plot: Florence, sister of Mamie from book 1, is determined to make her own way in the world. That means that rather than marrying well, which isn’t hard when you’re an heiress under 25 who isn’t monstrously hideous, […]

Pusheen the Cat is back

Pusheen the Cat’s Guide to Everything by Claire Belton

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Pusheen the Cat is back with a brand-new collection of adorable comics, expert advice, and silly antics featuring Pusheen and all her friends! Pusheen the Cat’s Guide to Everything is a cute counter book for anyone who is a Pusheen fan. We follow this beloved kitty along with their friends and family. We learn about siblings (how to annoy sisters) and what moms and dads are good at. And not to mention how Sloths have some awesome powers and at least the on in this […]

Lady Rosa

Rosa Parks (NBM Comics Biographies) by Matteo Mancini

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This biographical graphic novel, Rosa Parks (NBM Comics Biographies), starts as a cab driver talks to his passenger about the meaning behind the struggles the black community still faces. But of course, the young man does not realize the past that allowed him to be where he is. And the driver continues to tell the life story of not only Rosa Parks, but the people and events that allowed the path to begin. We follow the memories of the driver as a child as he […]

Sweet but not sappy

The Yellow Ao Dai by Hanh Bui

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I was thinking that The Yellow Ao Dai was going to be super sappy. The cover is cute and sweet looking, and the main character is a young child. The subject felt as if it was going to be a “feel good tale.” And it is but all that, but it is more, too. It is a feel-good story, but there is some meat with those potatoes. We follow a young Vietnamese girl excited to share part of her culture with her class, but her […]

See about the sea

The Ocean Is Kind of a Big Deal by Nick Suluk

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The Ocean Is Kind of a Big Deal is Nick Suluk’s latest creation. You might now them better as the Lars the Awkward Yeti author and illustrator, or the books The Brain Is Kind of a Big Deal and The Sun Is Kind of a Big Deal. The humor we know in Awkward Yeti is there, but the clever way of learning is added. The book is cartoon illustrations and for the higher preschool to first or second grader (the second grader might be a […]



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