Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Performance jitters

Something Wild by Molly Ruttan

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Hannah loves playing violin, but not in front of people. Of course, she has a recital. On the day of, Hannah wishes for Something Wild to happen. And due to some wonderful imaginative situations, the laughs (and some well needed inspiration and self-confidence) happen. Molly Ruttan has created a … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:135 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Health · Tags: , , , , , , ·

“Art thieves steal more than beautiful objects; they steal memories and identities. They steal history.”

Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures by Robert Wittman, John Shiffman

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Sometimes professional curiosity places books on my to read list, and that’s certainly how Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures ended up there. While I don’t work in an art museum something that remains a point of interest for me from my days in grad school is the … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:10 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

Mirrors

Recitatif by Toni Morrison

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Technically, Recitatif is a short story - generously, it could be called a novella - but was released recently (I think) as a full book with an introduction by Zadie Smith, and so I'll count it as a novel unto itself here. For the unfamiliar, this is a story where race is central to the plot - but … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Successionary

Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams

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Look, I'm simple: if you bill a book as a "non-fictional Succession," load it with family drama and a bunch of wannabe Richard IIIs and Lady Macbeths, and put billions of dollars and a major media or financial empire at stake, I'm absolutely going to devour it. This is no exception. As to the … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:27 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

There’s a New Young Magician in Town

Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston

Amari and the Great Game by B. B. Alston

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Seeking a break from the current troubles in my personal life, I hit the library looking for something light and fun to take my mind off of everything. The "now available" section on Libby showed me a bunch of things that looked too hard but then came Amari. Amari and the Night Brothers is the … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Children's Books, Featured · Tags: ·

Cyborgs and Princesses and Lunar Aggression

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

Cress by Marissa Meyer

Winter by Marissa Meyer

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I picked up the first book of Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles, Cinder, after one of my coworkers recommended it by telling me how much her 12-year-old loved the book. I was craving a fast-paced book that would be the right amount of complex to be interesting but still simple enough to follow in … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: ·


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