Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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 […]

Hold on….let me think

Hold That Thought by Bree Galbraith

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When a young child starts finding the smallest form of an idea, it slowly grows until it is a giant bloom of creativity and wonder. Most of their family and friends support them, but there is that one bully that tells the child, “That is not how an idea is supposed to look.” And this, of course, starts doubt. Yet, they realize, since they and the others who added to the idea, and had their own, each looked different, and combining them made each even […]

Even adults have the feeling

Almost Always Best, Best Friends by Apryl Stott

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Best friends Poppy and Clementine love being best friends. However, one day Clementine is not able to play with Poppy as they are playing with a new friend, Georgia. And, like most children, Poppy is jealous of this new friendship, especially when Clementine talks non-stop about how wonderful this new friend is and how she is better than Poppy. Almost Always Best, Best Friends shows how friendships change, grow, and even shows that sometimes even best friends can have problems and hurt each other feelings. […]

Fun, Fast Fantasy Reads

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

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I decided to read the Shadow and Bone series after watching the first season of the series on Netflix, and the general fantasy/magic world of the Grishaverse seemed like it would be my jam. If you’re looking to cut to the chase rather than reading my take on each book: if YA Fantasy is your thing, these books are worth reading! I tore through the whole series, and while it was certainly not perfect, it was very enjoyable and every book managed to be a […]

Easter Bonnet Competitions and War Crimes

Easter Bonnet Murder by Leslie Meier

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Lucy Stone, the main reporter in Tinker’s Cove, is concerned for her friend Miss Tilley when she has to move into retirement home Heritage House after an illness. But that concern only grows when an intrepid resident, Agnes, goes missing from the place. I did not realize when I requested this audiobook ARC that it was the twenty-eighth book in the series! Had I not known, I wouldn’t have guessed it, for the writing is not tired at all as you sometimes get with long […]

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

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Maybe living under an oppressive authoritarian regime provides some clarity. Maybe it doesn’t, but one of the things I find fascinating about overt (and especially real world) novel that take place within these kinds of regimes is that I can never truly understand how life happens there. I don’t mean the parts that happen in reaction to the regime itself. So reading a dystopian novel like 1984 or Hunger Games isn’t what I mean. Or even a real-world text like Darkness at Noon is still […]



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