Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Fall 2019 Needs to Hurry Up

Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu

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This is a collection of a web comic created by Ngozi Ukazu about the fictional Samwell hockey team. It’s one of NPR’s best books of 2018, but I found it through the Puck Soup hockey podcast. If you don’t like/know anything about hockey and found college to be less than great you will still enjoy this. I love hockey and laughed so hard. But it’s much more about the relationships between friends during a couple of years of their lives. The main character is Eric […]

Disney said it best: “What makes a Monster and what makes a Man?” (or in this case hero and villain)

Guys Read: Heroes and Villains by Jon Scieszka

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This series rocks!  READ THEM! You need more? (sigh) Okay…… Guys Reads started around 10 years ago with Guys Write for Guys Read: Boys’ Favorite Authors Write About Being Boys. Jon Scieszka, however, is no stranger to getting boys to read. His Time Warp Trio series was his way of writing for the boys in his classroom who did not have anything to read. Flash forward a few years and Scieszka is knows for many picture books and novels, including the Guys Read series. I […]

Probably a less than 10% chance I’ll take up running after this

Running Like a Girl: Notes on Learning to Run by Alexandra Heminsley

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This is an older book published in 2014.  I live on a small Caribbean island and spend a lot of time in airports travelling to just about anywhere.  On one such trip, I was hanging out waiting for my mid morning flight home and I realised that as the flight should be boarding that I was not only at the wrong gate but also in the wrong terminal.  I was then faced with trying to make it from terminal D to B as quickly as […]

Time to move Sarina Bowen back on hiatus

Pipe Dreams by Sarina Bowen

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Lauren Williams used to love hockey, but after Brooklyn Bruisers goalie Mike Beacon suddenly dumped her without warning, she stays far away from the game, and is very grateful that her boss, Nate Kattenberger, has her running his office in Manhattan, so she can focus on moving on and building a life for herself on her own. She’s about to graduate from college, with a lot of bright career prospects in her future and she’s planning on having a baby, by herself. She’s none too […]

The least toxically masculine thing you will ever read.

Check, Please!: #Hockey, Vol. 1 by Ngozi Ukazu

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So if you go over to Goodreads and scroll down the first page of reviews, you’ll see that nearly every review starts along the lines of, “THIS WAS SO ADORABLE.” Or “THE CUTEST EVER I’M DYING.” And now that I have read this, I too, can sympathize. This was monstrously precious. I am compelled to say this because of how cute. Check, Please! is a sweet little web comic that is finishing up later this year. It follows Eric “Bitty” Bittle, a former champion figure […]

Perhaps You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks

The Complete Soccer Goalkeeper: Techniques & Tactics for Stopping Every Shot by Tim Mulqueen

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Best for: Goalies and Goalie Coaches (it’s a bit of a niche market, I’ll grant you). In a nutshell: US Men’s National Team Goalkeeper coach (he coached Tim Howard, yo) offers tips for training effective goalkeepers. Worth quoting: “The best way to stay on top of the game is by playing along in your head.” Why I chose it: I am a goalkeeper who rarely had any proper goalkeeper training. Whoops. Review: When I moved to London, I thought team sports — specifically soccer, or […]



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