Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A tangled fishing line catches friendship

Ege and Avra by Evgenia Mantikas and Elifgul Buyukoral

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The Autumn releases come at the busy time of the year as it is pre-holidays. And some years what you will find is good and other years not as much. But Fall of 2026 will be filled with new publications. And some really good ones too, like Ege and Avra.  Publisher description says it is a story about connecting Türkiye and Greece on the Aegean Sea. And that is how it ends, but the start is where the goodness happens. We follow two girls, Ege […]

I might have posted about this book before, but I can’t help it! I keep reading and liking it.

Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices by Walter Dean Myers

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Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices by Walter Dean Myers Read it! It’s terribly cool! Yes, that is a short, not completely grammatically solid comment, but it is how I feel about Here in Harlem. I could ramble on about how the poems are dealing with the life and death of the people of Harlem, so some themes are mature. And I could say that each voice is fun and unique and clever and sad, and beautiful and even though sometimes we are listening […]

the book that snapped me out of my funk

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

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CBR Bingo: Bird, because this has birds on the cover (that counts, right?) hot take: This book grows up and becomes Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. longer take: so that’s the wrong title entirely and the wrong book, and now I’ve read the Wikipedia summary for said book I’m not going to go read it. Whoops all around. The book I was actually thinking about is Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, which is also about a slightly unpleasant older woman who’s reckoning with her past and how it’s impacted […]

I’d like to be friends with the characters of these books

Johnny Tunes and the Gandy Dancers by Pamela M Tuck, Joel S Tuck, and Jerry Jordan

The Northbound Train: A Story of the Great Migration by Leslie Johnson Piotrowski and Tonya Engel

Solar Mamas: The Story of Sanjit "Bunker" Roy and the Grandmothers Who Became Solar Engineers by Jyothi Nookula and Nabi H. Ali

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Three picture books, all read via online reader copies, that everyone should have in their collections (be you teacher, parent, child, student, or other) are the below. Johnny Tunes and the Gandy Dancers by Pamela M Tuck, Joel S Tuck, Jerry Jordan (Illustrator) (due September 2026).   The Northbound Train: A Story of the Great Migration (A Picture Book) by Leslie Johnson Piotrowski, Tonya Engel (Illustrated by) (due January 2027).  Solar Mamas: The Story of Sanjit “Bunker” Roy and the Grandmothers Who Became Solar Engineers by […]

A family story

The Fire Walker by Ainkaran Sivaaji and N. Dejeshwini

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The Fire Walker by Ainkaran Sivaaji and illustrated by N. Dejeshwini is due in mid-September 2026. I think I will read it at least once more before it comes out and at least once when I find a finished copy (I read via an online reader copy). There is a lot going on with the theme and illustrations. The idea is simple: a child worries about his father, wonders how people will react when they see the father is not well, and can the father […]

More French Werewolves

The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan

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Bingo Square: Season (winter) While this is currently a stand alone, I think it could work well as a series. In fact, in some ways, I think I would even like this book more as the first in a series than a stand alone. While it’s a longer novel than your average late 2000s/early-to-mid 2010s urban fantasy novel, it has the same feel as some of the first books in many of those series. Think The Dresden Files or Kate Daniels – there are some […]



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