Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


You got kids? This book gots kids.

Stay My Baby by Lana Button

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This is a bouncy, rhyming, totally a first book for baby board book. Stay My Baby (due mid-September 2023) is about how a care giver (parent, grandparent, etc.) feels about this new bundle of joy that has come into their lives, or the toddler who is growing quickly. A book that works for first to … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:214 · Genres: Children's Books, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: , , , , ·

Spoiler: Children are Friends, not Food.

I’m Hungry! by Elise Gravel

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Who has not had the “I’m Hungry!” issue? You eat a piece of pizza, but you are still hungry, and you want something else to eat. So, you eat the plate, the table, the house, the school, a mountain and finally you see the child reading the book you are in, and you try and eat them.  I mean, that … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:213 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: , , , ·

Papa said Poopy!

Stinkbird Has a Superpower by Jill Esbaum

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Jill Esbaum, you had me at STINKBIRD and then Bob Shea had me with that dancing, purple chick on the cover. And then you all had me forever after reading Stinkbird Has a Superpower. This is a hilarious book about how a papa bird tells his little chick (and the reader) about how fabulous they … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:212 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

Tennessee Williams

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams

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The Glass Menagerie "Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. To begin with, I turn bark time. I reverse it to that quaint … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:230 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Jeanette Winterson; Joyce Carol Oates

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

American Melancholy by Joyce Carol Oates

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"It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock." Another reread of The Passion for me, this time specifically because I had the audiobook for it, and that tends to go very quickly. One thing about the audiobook that works here especially is … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:225 · Genres: Fiction, Poetry · Tags: , ·


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