Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Forget Swords and Sorcery. Give Me Tea and Books Instead.

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

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One’s the most powerful mage in the world.  The other is personal bodyguard to the queen.  And really all the two of them want to is run off and open a store that sells books and serves tea.  That’s easier said than done though. The characters are fantastic, all of them.  Reyna and Kianthe the main … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured, Romance · Tags: , , , ·

“When it came to equality, 1952 was a real disappointment.”

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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Lessons in Chemistry (2022) by Bonnie Garmus is on NPR's Best Books List, but I'd seen the title all over the place. The pink cover with the woman on the front made it look like a romance novel, but the NPR description sounded a lot more fraught than what you would expect. Initially, it didn't sound … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Learn from each other

Me + Tree by Alexandria Giardino

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CBR15Passport, different country (illustrators from Italy and the young girl is from “other country” than where she is living) A young girl, in a fantastic way, learns about an old tree, now a stump, but using her imagination and the knowledge she has of being alone and unseen. Having moved to … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:93 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Poetry · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

“This is the year where if you are not careful, you could stand to lose it all. There will be one pregnancy, one funeral, and one marriage. A complete turn around the sun by the next Lunar year. But you must fix your relationship with everyone. And I mean everyone in your family. Starting with your daughters.”

The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh

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This was a fun one. The author has said in interviews that she wanted to portray the complexities of Vietnamese American/diaspora relationships between women, and she wanted the women to be messy and make mistakes and have a really hard time not making the same mistakes again and again. So she wrote … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:21 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

Love Letters are not just for sweethearts

Dear Earth by Isabel Otter

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CBR15Passport, from other country (author and illustrators are both currently living in the UK and grew up one in the UK and one in the Seychelles Islands) There are several books about environmental and the impact we have on it. This picture book by Isabel Otter takes that idea and has a young … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:92 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: , , , , , ·

Getting your Zen on

Zen for Kids: 50+ Mindful Activities and Stories to Shine Loving-Kindness in the World by Laura Burges

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CBR15Passport, author unknown to me. Zen for Kids: 50+ Mindful Activities and Stories to Shine Loving-Kindness in the World by Laura Burges and  Melissa Iwai  is a story of mindfulness and Zen actives that can grow with your child. Each story is adapted from a classic fairy tale, legend or from … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:91 · Genres: Children's Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion, Short Stories, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , , ·


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