Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Coming to America

Frankie D, Vegan Vampire by Sally Dutra and Brian Dutra

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Frankie D, Vegan Vampire by Sally Dutra and Brian Dutra, with illustrations by Tiffani Brown is set up as if The Addams Family were from today, a lot more modern (though their understanding of things still not the same as “normies”), plus were actual vampires. This is a fun and sweet book. The silly and clever retelling of a fitting in theme has been done before, but the humor this time around makes it fresh. The characters are maybe a bit of caricatures (there is […]

I’m not cold, just my habitat

Cold by Tim McCanna

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Cold is different for everyone. Poetry is different for everyone. And in Tim McCanna’s picture book, Cold, we get a lovely, lush illustrated book that has a story within the art as well as complimenting the text that deals with both subjects. The poetry is how the rhyming text with each page gives us a short burst of poetic information about how in cold there is life and how the cold itself is a character that moves about, leading us to the different places the […]

Read Everything And ‘Den Some! 

I Want to Read All the Books by Debbie Ridpath Ohi

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When I first saw the online reader copy of I Want to Read All the Books I skipped over it. Somewhat ironically, as I do want to read all the books, but I know I cannot, so I have to choose. But then I saw that it was by Debbie Ridpath Ohi. And that sealed the deal and I was thinking that I must read. Ohi is one of those authors/illustrators of books that you need to read. Maybe you do not love the work, […]

AB@C and more puzzles

AB@C: And Other Gramograms  by Rob Meyerson

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While I have difficulties with puzzles like the ones in AB@C: And Other Gramograms  (gramograms: word puzzles where letters, numbers, and everyday symbols create words and sentences) sometimes, I do enjoy them and find them clever. Therefore, when I saw that there was a new book coming out, I was interested.  Rob Meyerson’s works range for all ages, but some are more adult than others. Of course, they are not all necessarily “inappropriate,” but as always, know your reader.  I was reading via an online […]

Ladies, please lock your doors.

These Toxic Things by Rachel Howzell Hall

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  Sometimes when reading a mystery or thriller book, when the ending is being telegraphed really hard, I think it must be a misdirection. Then, when the telegraphed ending is revealed as a big shocking twist, I wind up disappointed. This, along with an inability to connect with the main character were two of the main issues I had with These Toxic Things by Rachel Howzell Hall. The story follows Mickie Lambert, a twenty something woman who creates “digital scrapbooks” for mostly older adults who […]

A Head Wound Hail Mary

10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall

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We spend a good few minutes wrangling with nachos. To be honest, they’re a good fit for the very unusual occasion of two people who are blatantly into each other having a meal where they have to pretend they aren’t. They’re not so messy it’s embarrassing, they require just enough cooperation that you’ve got to interact, but not so much it gets sexy. ― Alexis Hall, 10 Things That Never Happened “Worst comes to absolute worst, I’ll just arrange to get whacked on the head […]



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