Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

They want to believe

Out There (a graphic novel) by Seaerra Miller

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Do you believe in UFOs? Little Green Men? (Why are they always green? Little? And men?) Do you believe that we are not alone? Well Julia and her dad believe. And ever since he was abducted by aliens, he has been trying to find the truth. After all, they told him they had a message for him, but not yet. He would have t find the place. But of course, Julia’s friends, mother, and the boy she meets on the road trip to Roswell, NM […]

That’s a lotta corpses, bro

A Man Named Doll by Jonathan Ames

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I liked the other Jonathan Ames books I’ve read, and learned ten seconds ago that he’s the creator of Bored to Death, which, for anyone who doesn’t know, is a show on HBO Max (which I haven’t seen, but which multiple people have told me I’d like). Anyway. A guy named Happy Doll – for real, his parents named him that…seriously? a little much right off the bat – is an ex-cop who’s now a fairly unsuccessful, i.e., not busy,  private detective. A friend comes […]

Fools and Their Money

French Exit by Patrick DeWitt

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To give you some context, I read this book a while ago and just forgot to write a review, so my memory of it isn’t quite as fresh as I would like it to be. Frances Price and her son Malcolm are idly rich New Yorkers who have been gradually spending down the fortune accrued by their husband and father Frank, a cutthroat lawyer who neither of them had much feeling for by the end. At long last, their accountant gives them the bad news […]

The end pages are cute too

Be More Dog by Caroline Crow

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I am a cat person, but even I can get behind the ideas in Be More Dog. It is really simple, actually, because all Caroline Crow is telling us is that we can find our happiness any place we want, you just have to be more dog sometimes to find it, or just go with the flow. Which just means, that sniffing dad’s old boot is happiness (for a dog, even if you think grandma’s cookies are happiness instead), splashing in puddles is happiness, giving […]

Now I want to be a pterodactyl!

You Can’t Be a Pterodactyl! by James Breakwell

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I am all for not stepping on a child’s dream, but sometimes, well they are not the most, shall we say, realistic? Sure, you can think of difficult things (did anyone think we would have a biracial president or a woman and one of color as vice president in our lifetimes?) But trying to become an extinct flying reptile? Yeah, that’s a little impossible. But lo and behold in James Breakwell’s book You Can’t Be a Pterodactyl! the character of Tommy and his dad, find […]

Even an Irish fairy could learn from this Viking Maid

Viking Strong by Doug Cenko

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Ingrid has everything a Viking wants, a best friend, kittens, a good home. But she would like to enter and win the Strongest Viking Contest. However, the thing stopping her? she can’t swim. She sinks. But she trains and when the day comes, she gets to prove how strong a strong Viking really is. Doug Cenko’s Viking Strong is funny. If you like kittens and cats, there are a lot of amusing parts with them. There are lots of dressing up our kittens, racing our […]



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