Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

If you ever wanted to hear LeVar Burton say the phrase “sweet and salty love”, then this is the collection for YOU!

The Visit by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Black Pages by Nnedi Okorafor

2043...A Merman I Should Turn to Be by Nisi Shawl

These Alien Skies by C.T. Rwizi

Clap Back by Nalo Hopkinson

We Travel the Spaceways by Victor LaValle

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You can hear LeVar say lots of other things, if you like! You can also hear Nyambi Nyambi, Naomi Ackie, Indya Moore, Adenrele Ojo, and Brian Tyree Henry! The six-entry Black Stars collection is another new(ish) group of short stories available from Amazon Originals. They are available on both kindle and through audible, and if you are interested in diving into this collection then I highly recommend taking the audio route! Every story is enhanced by the audio performances, and I am sure that I rated […]

I see dead people? I think?

Comfort & Joy: A Fable by Kristin Hannah

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What did I just read? So I confess that I didn’t really read the blurb that closely, just saw Kristin Hannah, knew that I liked (and had downloaded) other stuff from her, and just needed something quickly because I had scores of doctor’s appointments and waiting rooms coming up. But this was weird. Like, SUPER weird. Joy – a high school librarian – is a lover of all things Christmas, but this year, her first Christmas since her divorce (where her husband left her for […]

I need these books in a completed edition!

Asadora! V02 by Niaoki Urasawa

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Asadora! V02 starts with a short flashforward to “now” (or the “now” of the story), we are teased by a theme introduced but not explored in book one. Two scientists find a clue to proving Asa might not have been seeing things the day of the tsunami that destroyed her home and tore her family apart. We then go to where we left off in book one continuing Asa’s story of trying to help others by flying over the flooded town, dropping food to those […]

A theme of Love

Lost and Found by Kate Banks

Me and Ms. Too by Laura Ruby

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These two books have nothing in common except they are both modern stories, with a classic feel and are sweetly presented. Still, I will put them in one review as I really am unable to write a 250 worded review for either one of them solo. Lost and Found by Kate Banks and illustrations by Galia Bernstein is an adorable story that shows how love comes in many forms, but you always know it when you see it. It does not matter that you might […]

Nelly and Elizabeth took a little trip

Nellie vs. Elizabeth: Two Daredevil Journalists' Breakneck Race Around the World by Kate Hannigan

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Nellie vs. Elizabeth: Two Daredevil Journalists’ Breakneck Race Around the World by Kate Hannigan and Rebecca Gibbon  on illustrations is a fun story about two very different women, but who found a way to make history. Nellie is Nellie Bly. Outgoing and willing to go three extra miles for the story. Elizabeth is Elizabeth Bisland. Shy and enjoys a good book. But both decided that to make news, they would have to go out and make it themselves. And since a little book by a […]

A sister’s love, a sisters struggle

Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers by Lina Al-Hathloul

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Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers by Lina Al-Hathloul and Uma Mishra-Newbery is a poetic story inspire by a real woman and the way she learned to fly, and how her country considered it illegal and punished her. The real Loujain grew up with her siblings in Saudi Arabia and to drive a car (fly) as a woman was illegal, but she knew she wanted to “see the sunflowers” and therefore, learned. However, once having returned to the country, her father filmed her, and it became viral […]



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