Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

We are one big crazy family

Dad and Daddy’s Big Big Family by Seamus Kirst

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Little Harper meets her big web of family members in Dad and Daddy’s Big Big Family. The fun part of this book is right from the start you know you are getting a modern story. We have two dads to start us off. And one Dad (not Daddy) is having a family reunion, where Harper is going to be a lot of people, she does not know but told are her family. But when her newly meet cousin, Noah, said he thought families lived together, […]

A bouquet of flowers

The Best Flower Ever! by Neesha Hudson

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A dog (the publisher description says it is an Australian shepherd) feels they have the most special, wonderful, The Best Flower Ever! And they do. Until another dog comes along and says, OH I have a flower, too. And that flower is bigger, shiner, the bees like it better. And then again, another dog comes, and their flower is the best! One lives in the desert, one smells relaxing, one is virtual, one taught the cat to be potty trained. And our shepherd friend becomes […]

A brief history of the Soviet Union and an homage to Casablanca

A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles

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There’s a lot to love about this novel: the writing, the characters, the author’s knowledge of Russian history and literature. The premise behind the novel may seem a bit fantastical, but somehow Amor Towles makes me believe it and want it to be true. In 1922, fictional Count Alexander Rostov was brought before a Revolutionary court and found guilty of being an enemy of the people. Given his class, he might have been executed, but in 1913 Rostov had written poetry sympathetic to revolutionary ideals, […]

You’ll probably never look at a bananas the same way

Banana Dream by Hasan Namir

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What would you do if you name was Mooz? Well, you might do the same thing as the young boy in Banana Dream. You see, his name is a bit unusual and is associated with bananas. And of course, he is teased by his classmates, and envious of his cousins with more traditional names. But when he learns about the meaning of why his parents named him that, which was when his parents were trying to conceive, and having a difficult time, his mother dreamt […]

G, B, C, D, E, F, A lets sing the alphabet today!

Alphabuddies: G is First by Beth Bacon and Karen Kane

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Okay. I am an alphabet girl. Numbers? Oh, they are nice, but I like letters. And I like the order they are in. Twenty-six letters all in their place. And if they are not there, well all heck will break out! Or will it? In Alphabuddies: G is First we learn how important each letter is and, in the long run, how it does not matter the order, just as long as you use each and every important one. Of course, it takes us, and […]

Meiko Kawakami

Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami

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“If you want to know how poor somebody was growing up, ask them how many windows they had.” This is two novels packaged in one book: an original short novella, and a longer sequel. They are not exactly sequels but they doo cover a lot of the same ground thematically, but more importantly, the three narrators — a mother and daughter in the first novel, and then the sister/aunt in the second, are all from the same family, so they have a shared history, even […]



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