Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Clarice Lispector

The Collected Stories of Clarice Lispector by Clarice Lispector

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“Now that the affair is behind me, I can recollect it more serenely.” This sentence opens up an early long story by Clarice Lispector, where a woman involves in an intense affair finds out what happens when things simply change one day. This story, from around 1950, feels like an early exploration of the end of passion, and not have the kind of judgment or consequential factors in it. This isn’t “Daisy Miller” or an Edith Wharton story, and it’s not there to exact punishment. […]

This kid has a better chance of getting to Broadway then I do Main Street and I *live* on Main!

Broadway Baby by Russell Miller

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When I started Broadway Baby my first thought was well, this is cut…. Whoa! That’s a bit off-putting!  The tone of the book is a 45-year-old man talking to us, but the character is wearing snazzy diapers and fabulous clothing. I got vibes of all the promos and images of Man From Oz (as I have not seen it) and realized there are several Broadway hits in the imagery. Russell Miller and Judith A. Proffer set out to honor the bright lights, and regardless of […]

Teeming tadpoles

Tadpoles by Matt James

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I wanted to like the book Tadpoles more than I did. Now, nothing was wrong with Matt James’ book, but it was not grabbing me. That might mean this story about a father and son and the day they spend together when exploring newly formed ponds and tadpoles, is one I need to read again as I missed something (I read too fast, concentrated too hard on text and not the big picture, etc.), or it can mean it is not for me. It is […]

Second most fun I have had with a basketball book

Hoops by Matt Tavares

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CBR15Passport own The Matt Tavares graphic novel Hoops is the most fun I have had with a basketball story since Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang. Based on real events, this is a great story for fans of graphic novels, basketball (girls/women’s, boys/men or either), or a great friend’s story. We follow the brand-new girls’ basketball team where basketball is king and the players royalty. That is, if they are the boys team. The newly formed girls’ team is expected to wash their own uniforms […]

I have family, I have friends, now just need some snackies!

Spreckle's Snack Surprise by Sandra Salsbury

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CBR15Passport  author What happens when you are looking for the best snack ever and all you can find are some messy slugs? Well, you do what Spreckle does in Spreckle’s Snack Surprise. You fly the coop. And maybe I should have led with this, but Spreckle lives on a farm with their fuzzy brothers and sisters and feathery mom in a chicken coop. And even though they do not look like each other, there is lots of love to go around and a warm nest to […]

More Murderbotting

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

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In Artificial Condition, we meet back up with Murderbot not too long after it left Dr. Mensah’s group. Its  goal is to find out what happened to it about 35,000 hours ago when it murdered several humans in what it was told was a failure of its programming, but most of its memory of the event was wiped and it wants more information. To do that it boards an empty research transport that’s headed in the direction it wants to go. The transport vessel ends […]



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