Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Perhaps every generation passes to the next…an untouched trunk of virtues. The adults describe the trunk’s contents to the young and never open it.

The Maytrees by Annie Dillard

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CBR15 BINGO: (Bodies, Bodies Bodies square. Deals with the process of aging and death) Annie Dillard’s writing is gorgeous, layered and poetic. I read The Living years and years ago and still, when asked what my favorite books of all time are, it is on the top of that list. I can only remember basic points about the plot but I remember, very vividly, how reading that book made me feel. This is Dillard’s only other work of fiction and, while set in a different […]

CBR15 Bingo: On the Air

Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin

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CBR15 Bingo: On the Air Official book description: Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the close-knit Golden Crescent neighborhood. Hana waitresses there part time, but what she really wants is to tell stories on the radio. If she can just outshine her fellow intern at the city radio station, she may have a chance at landing a job. In the meantime, Hana pours her thoughts and dreams into a podcast, where she forms a lively relationship with one […]

I like to eat, read books, and read books about eating

Bring Back the Babka! by Marilyn Wolpin

Rising by Sidura Ludwig

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I am always hungry. I was hungry when I read these books and writing reviews for them made me hungry.  And while you may or may not be able to devour good food, soon you will be able to devour Bring Back the Babka! (I was able to read a special finished copy provided to me by my lovely Barefoot Books deal!) And 2024 will show us my other read of food, glorious food! When brothers search for their mother’s missing babka in Bring Back […]

To Market to find a present for Mama Cat

Market Day (I Like to Read Comics) by Miranda Harmon

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I was looking at the online reader copies I have available to me, and up popped Market Day (I Like to Read Comics). I almost passed on this cute story that has all my pet peeves in reverse (more on that in a minute). But I decided to give Miranda Harmon’s January 2024 early reader a shot. Now either I missed it or the main characters are from another story, bit I never saw the names of the three main characters, but the publisher’s content gives […]

Octopus’ Garden

The Den That Octopus Built by Randi Sonenshine

Before the Seed: How Pollen Moves by Susannah Buhrman-Deever

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I have probably mentioned before that I was never a science person. However, if I had been taught that science was not just chemicals and numbers and formulas maybe I would have been into it more (don’t get me wrong, I had good teachers, just some did not know how to teach me). Therefore, as an adult I am enjoying my journey into Seemingly-Non-Science-Science areas. And of course, I have found books to help me. Books that show nature is a science. And since I […]

When it hits home

Flooded by Mariajo Ilustrajo

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The picture book Flooded by Mariajo Ilustrajo hit close to home. Recently my state had serious flooding happen. (I went by business X early Sunday evening. By Monday the building was half underwater at the same time). My town, while thankfully mostly missed this last time, has already weathered at least three big storms and a bad winter flooding over the last decade. Thankfully, not first hand, but I know about flooding. I have a friend anytime a storm hits, she has PTSD (I would too […]



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