Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

If your therapist started writing chick-lit, this is what you’d get.

Things You Save In A Fire by Katherine Center

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This is the second Katherine Center book I’ve read. My book club read How To Walk Away a couple years ago. It was fine! Not my usual cup of tea, but we actually had a good discussion around disability, the ethics that therapists should/do follow, etc. I thought Things You Save In A Fire might be a good addition for the Beach Reads presentation that I’m doing for work. Cassie Hanwell is a 26 year old fire fighter. She’s also a rising star in the […]

Incisive and Interesting Essays on Orthodox Jewish Childhood

Artifacts of Orthodox Jewish Childhood by Dainy Bernstein (editor)

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Artifacts of Orthodox Childhoods is a book of personal and critical essays that cover a historically under-researched topic. The book is inclusive of a wide range of viewpoints and backgrounds, and it benefits from the thought that went into the editing of the essays and the impulse to widen instead of narrow the people who contributed. I appreciated that this book didn’t retread the same familiar ground we see in the media of the triumphant escape from the backwards evil of Ultra-Orthodoxy. Instead, the collection gave […]

Fantastic second book!

The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart

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[review contains references and spoilers for Bone Shard Daughter, book one of The Drowning Empire trilogy] After defeating her father, Lin hoped taking over as emperor would be a smooth transition, but no one knows who she is and don’t trust the Sukai family after the terrors of tithing festivals and constructs. But with Jovis, who has become a folk hero, at her side she decides to travel across the empire to announce the ending of tithings, return everyone’s bone shards, and try to get […]

Too sweet

Kitty Sweet Tooth by Abby Denson

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I will start my review with, this is not my image of the graphic novel Kitty Sweet Tooth (book one) by Abby Denson. All of mine had big ol’ light/flash spots on it.  And very distracting. Besides, I liked the idea that some place out there someone has a Kitty Sweet Tooth doll. Granted, I do not want one, but I know that there will be several ages six to eight/nine who will after reading this book. Now I will add that there are several […]

You might be cool, but you’ll probably never be Have two dinosaurs named after you cool

The Fossil Whisper: How Wendy Sloboda Discovered a Dinosaur by Helaine Becker

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Kids can do some fair out stuff. Like find fossils of dinosaurs. Well, at least Wendy Sloboda did (the Wendiceratops), and we see how in The Fossil Whisper: How Wendy Sloboda Discovered a Dinosaur. As you will learn later in the book, she does more than that. Finding some of the most information fossils and information the field has ever seen, she did most of it in her own backyard (or the Canadian Badlands, or not too far from where she grew up).  And Helaine […]

Soothing the Beast

Maya and the Beast by Maya Gabeira

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While this might not become a classic, or even will be in my Top 10 favorites of this year, Maya and the Beast by Maya Gabeira is a book that was very enjoyable and needs at least a re-read or two. There is a lot going on and cannot be digested all at once. Story and art complement and support each other, allowing for busy pages and busy feeling to the overall tone. It was a sweet story, about overcoming fears, limitations, and biases. And […]



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