Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Dan! Dan! (Santat)! Is the man

Don't Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson

The Day the Books Disappeared by Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard

All the Hulk Feels by Dan Santat

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I like the illustrator Dan Santat. While I like the colors, the silliness and the medium to busy details, I have never been sure exactly what draws me. The nice thing is, there are a lot of titles (some he is the author as well of), to explore to figure it out.  And there are three new/recent ones that you should try out to see if you can help explain it to me. First, there is  Don’t Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson. It is a […]

In the Still of the Night

The Moonshine War by Elmore Leonard

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John “Son” Martin, Jr made one slip-up in the Army. Drunk with a fellow soldier, he bragged about the massive store of illegal whiskey his father had distilled and hidden away on their family property. Years later, Son’s father is long gone and he’s in charge of the land and the whiskey, but his old Army buddy has an idea. Frank Long has become a federal prohibition agent, and he’s come into town threatening to shut down all the bootleggers in the county unless Son […]

Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons is coincidental

Memoirs of a Woman Doctor: A Novel by El Saadawi, Nawal

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Memoirs of a Woman Doctor by Nawal El Saadawi is very short and doesn’t have much to keep track of. I’m not sure any characters even have names. After a dense several hundred page novel with dozens of characters to keep track of, it was very nice to read something short and light. Although it wasn’t that light for how little happens. Because sexism. The protagonist is an unnamed girl, turned student, turned doctor, turned woman in mid-20th century Egypt. These identities overlap, but there […]

Halloween stories are not just for one day

Murray's Howl-o-ween: A Halloween Picture Book by E. G. Keller

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Unlike Murray in Murray’s Howl-o-ween: A Halloween Picture Book by E. G. Keller I love the country (though “after cow” isn’t my fave scent). Murray is a dog that likes the sounds and smells of home. He’s less than impressed with the odd smells, the weird  decorations and the company (a cat). But eventually, he will learn about the wonders of something called Halloween and the treats are much sweeter than the tricks of earlier. Due in July 2025, it will be out in time […]

You’ll flip for this adventure(s)

Double Booking: The Tail of the Mummy Cat by Pangburn, Kim Shearer and Nic Touris

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Do you remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books? (FYI: they still have them. ) Anyway, at first, I thought that the book, Double Booking: The Tail of the Mummy Cat by Pangburn, Kim Shearer and Nic Touris, was going to be one of them when I found an online reader copy of it (though currently available). I figured, well this will be interesting to try and read. Thankfully (or maybe not thankfully depending on if you think it might be fun to try a […]

The title tells it all: Trigger

Trigger by C.G. Moore,

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The title Trigger tells you all you need to know about this book. Well, the important things, anyway. I would assume that the author, C.G. Moore, took some of their own experiences and gave them to their main characters. The feelings of loss, guilt, shame, wonder and the lack of memory.  There are triggers of all types are in this book: First for the reader (such as, but not limited to: a rape, toxic relationships) and second for the character (they are trying to trigger […]



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