Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Besties skipping a beat

Skip!: A Graphic Novel by Sarah Burgess.

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If strawberry lemonade was a book (or more accurately a graphic novel) it would be Skip!: A Graphic Novel by Sarah Burgess. Let me explain. First, I am thirsty and for some bizarre reason strawberry lemonade sounds really good so I used it as my metaphor. And second, it was something that was familiar and different, and it sounded like it would be both sweet and tart; sassy, with life, and with character!  Which is what Skip! is. The story is familiar (new best friends Jay and Beah start to have a serious case of the Friendship Blues […]

Boy in Space, Late for Dinner

Action Tank (Action Tank Volume 1) by Mike Barry

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Are you looking for an interesting look at a boy’s adventures as he tries to get to home as he is late for dinner? Then, Action Tank (Action Tank Volume 1) created by Mike Barry could be the read you are looking for. Or not. That is because I am not completely sure what I read and therefore, unable to say it is what you are looking for. We open the story onto barren panels and a boy laying there on the ground. Wearing what seems to […]

Hot Cops and Robbers

Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard

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Jack Foley is a cool customer. Whether he’s robbing a bank or breaking out of prison, Foley doesn’t let anything get to him. Until he gets a look at U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco. When Sisco shows up at his Florida prison coincidentally just as he’s making his break, Foley and his friend Buddy wind up taking her along for the ride, albeit in the trunk of their car. Foley gets right there in the trunk with her, and the close quarters only make him more […]

Just in time for the movie

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

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It was only when the trailer for the new movie, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, popped up on my Youtube page that I realized there was another Hunger Games story that I’d somehow missed. I’d read the original Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins–really getting caught up in the action in the first book, but losing interest and gaining frustration by the last book. I never made it through all the movies, but it was an intriguing story that stuck with me. Thus, after watching the trailer, I immediately […]

“She remembers that today is Sunday, which six days out of seven is not true.”

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

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I found The Swimmers (2022) by Julie Otsuka on NPR’s Best Books List. To be honest, I think I was specifically looking for a short, but good, book and The Swimmers fit the bill. I try to swim once in awhile, so I figured this book might even be relatable and/or motivating on that level as well. It turned out to be very different from what I expected as well as different from most novels that I’ve read. The Swimmers begins with the description of a swimming pool and the many people […]

I am the tree and you are the bird. Fly off as you please, you will always come back to sit on my branches.

A Long Way from Douala by Max Lobe

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Pa had brought out our entire stock of beer. Simon, Roger and I had the job of serving. We ran to and fro between the kitchen, the living room and the porch. Our hi-fi pumped out old Makossa hits: our parents’ favorites. A few women neighbors of their generation, also wearing kaba ngondos, had begun shimmying in the empty space at the center of the room. They looked like they were showing off: you can’t dance the Makossa without showing off.” ― Max Lobe, A […]



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