Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

This book, like a toot, if forced is probably s**t

Hello, My Name is Poop by Ben Katzner

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I am not sure why I wanted to read Hello, My Name is Poop.  I mean, I enjoy a book about poop as much as the next person, but this time, I should have flushed. Ben Katzner, Ian McGinty, and Rebecca Taylor are probably nice people and their graphic novel had potential, but it went for the obvious crappy joke every time. With a Mary Poppinsesque janitor and a diverse cast exploring the power of words, friends, and forgiveness, we had a story that could […]

Her name was Jacqueline Gauthier Judith Geller, and more

Hidden Hope: How a Toy and a Hero Saved Lives During the Holocaust. by Elisa Boxer

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CBR15Passport  other format (memoir as fiction)   Her name was Jacqueline Gauthier (among others) she had many secrets (one had to do with a toy duck), and she would help save people’s lives. Gauthier was really Judith Geller, a Jewish teen who pretended to be a Christian social worker. She would deliver papers to other Jewish families to help them be safer in France, or even help them escape the country all together. She was part of the French Resistance, she would lose dozens of […]

Making the leap to being brave

Evergreen by Matthew Cordell

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There is a book called Evergreen that has this classic looking old school squirrel on the cover. I am thinking Arnold Lobel has come back to do one more work for us! As my childhood book Miss Suzy by Miriam Young, flashes before my eyes. But then I realize it is a book by Matthew Cordell (who is also terribly cool). It is a book that just came out early February 2023. This story is about a squirrel called Evergreen (which honestly, is a cool […]

The other Themyscira

Diana and Nubia: Princesses of the Amazons by Shannon and Dean Hale

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Shannon and Dean Hale continue the fun from Diana: Princess of the Amazons with a similar upbeat tone, graphic novel for younger readers. However, this time we have two alternating points of view, which are the two Princesses of the Amazons, Diana and Nubia. Along with the talents of Victoria Yin, Lynnette Wong, and Becca Carey, the Hales made a story that is a light, but strong, read. From what little I know of the Diana/Nubia story, Diana and Nubia: Princesses of the Amazons seems […]

feed me with your kiss

The Widowmaker by Hannah Morrissey

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Last year I read and raved about Hannah Morrissey’s debut crime thriller, Hello, Transcriber. That was the first book in the Black Harbor series, set in a crumbling town in the American Midwest. The city of Black Harbor is the recurring character, along with the gothic and…I guess Scandi crime feel of cold, dread, and horror (but not Horror horror). The Widowmaker is the second book in the Black Harbor series. Whereas Transcriber was a tour de force in atmospherics and language, Morrissey puts forth […]

“This war was a choice.”

Wake of War by Zac Topping

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Wake of War author Zac Topping is a veteran, and it shows. In Topping’s debut novel, war is not treated as a glorious thing, but rather as an absurd cancer, or a toxin. The reader leaves with the distinct feeling that any sort of violence damages everyone involved. Somehow, despite the gravity of the subject, Topping wrote an entertaining book. He has a knack for simultaneously shoving the reader into the chaos of a firefight, while also slowing things down to more closely inspect the […]



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