Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Janet has lost her mojo

Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight by Janet Evanovich

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Oh dear. Where do I start? Well, let’s start here: THERE IS NO SEX. Also, more importantly, Ranger is in this story 0.0001%. Morelli is in this story 0.0005%. You know who’s around? Diesel. And freaking Wuulf. And Diesel, even though he’s like, number three in my book of Who Stephanie Should Have Sexy Times With doesn’t even have that much to do. And Wuulf doesn’t even have any real dialogue. Here’s there for like, two pages. This was…not good. I’ve lamented Janet’s half-hearted efforts […]

Fowl Play

That Egg Is Mine! A Silly Story about Sharing (Duck and Cluck) by Liz Goulet DuBois

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Duck and Cluck (a duck and a chicken) have an egg. The funny thing is it looks like Cluck with the same blue and white spots. But it looks like Duck’s bill as well (same blue and white color scheme). And both claim it to be theirs. Long story short, since Duck found it after it was lost by Cluck, it is his. But Cluck still claims they found it first. After a crazy story with crazier antics, Duck shows why it is his, but […]

Finding the right book but maybe wrong time

Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman

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I am probably the only person who is not going to be or is jumping up and down and shouting the praises of Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps. It is not because I disliked Charlotte Watson Sherman’s picture book, it is just that something was off for me. The story is sweet: a young girl named Kenzie wants to be swim in the ocean, say hello to the animals and be a mermaid. But one day she cannot swim freely as there is more […]

She might be slow, but she will (eventually) solve the crime!

Sloth Slueth by Cyndi Marko

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Sloth Slueth by Cyndi Marko is a cute mystery with stereotypical kid humor (sloths only poop once a week, so we see her mystery pondering and pooping on the ol’ commode). The story has the basic theme of a sloth trying to solve the question of who is trying to drive the café out of business by poisoning the customers, but young readers will get a kick out of it. They will also enjoy the fact that there is a slight difference to the characters. […]

These kites fly without wind

Flying Kites: A Story of the 2016 California Prison Hunger Strike by Stanford Graphic Novel Project

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Regardless of personal feelings of the legal system, or the rights/privileges you feel a prisoner deserves due to crimes committed verses what we would consider an “innocent confinement,” this graphic novel, Flying Kites: A Story of the 2016 California Prison Hunger Strike by the Stanford Graphic Novel Project, is an eye-opening piece of literature. The Stanford Project chooses a subject of importance, and recently, they choose one that would highlight one of the largest hunger strikes the California prison system had seen. It would shine […]

“Stranger than fiction – certainly more outsized, surreal and outrageous than anything you’d expect to encounter”

Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen

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A woman working in a government call center is stalked by an ex-boyfriend, a man lives in a strange woman’s apartment until he is confronted by one of her friends, and a farmer endeavours to build an airplane. A group of people have to live on a subway platform for months because the authorities won’t let them leave, and the lives of twins diverge when one of them begins to agitate against the government. There are a few overarching themes in this collection of stories […]



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