Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


I’m gunna study the stars and there ain’t nuttin’ you can do about it!

Shining Star: Vera Rubin Discovers Dark Matter by Suzanne Slade

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What is dark matter? Well, if you are looking for an answer, you won’t exactly find it in Shining Star: Vera Rubin Discovers Dark Matter. Instead, in this picture book (due November 2023, and yes, I read it via an online reader copy) you will find the biography of Dr. Vera Rubin, a young girl who in … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:286 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

The science behind super heroes and villains

Becoming Bionic and Other Ways Science Is Making Us Super by Heather Camlot

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The text is busy in this book, Becoming Bionic and Other Ways Science Is Making Us Super by the author, Heather Camlot. It fills the page with few pauses or at least easy stopping points. Once you start a section, you probably should finish it. The illustrations, by Victor Wong, are cartoon-like, … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:285 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

Matthew McConaughey wrote this

Just Because by Matthew McConaughey

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The book Just Because is a very Matthew McConaughey type book. His more laid back, modern take on things come out on the pages. He has several “just because” statements. Just because I told a lie, does not make me a liar. Or just because I have the gold (the biggest package) does not mean I won. Or … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:284 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: , , , , ·

Boethius

The Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

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"Who wrought my studious numbers Smoothly once in happier days, Now perforce in tears and sadness Learn a mournful strain to raise. Lo, the Muses, grief-dishevelled, Guide my pen and voice my woe; Down their cheeks unfeigned the tear drops To my sad complainings flow! These alone in danger's … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:278 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Religion · Tags: ·

“A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing.”

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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Do you want another review of Demon Copperhead? I know we already have plenty of them on this site, and you can throw a stone on the web and hit 20 different reviews - this book is insanely popular right now - so there's no argument about NEEDING another review. Well, here's one more - I'll try not … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

“Was it possible that the best bit of him was shining forth, and surfacing?”

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

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The book: Bill Furlong owns a company that delivers coal to the residents of a small town in Ireland in the 1980s. Furlong (as he's mostly referred to in the book) is married, has 5 daughters, and had an unusual upbringing (an unmarried mother, he was raised by her and her employer and doesn't know … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: , ·


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