Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


One shiny red apple

Mine! by Candace Fleming

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If you have a couple of children who enjoy reading, but not sharing you might want to give them this book. Or one book for each child you have. Because it they are like the mouse, deer, beer, rabbit, and fox of the story Mine! they will not want to share a treat as wonderful as this book. Or in the … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:4 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: , , , ·

I think I could write 1000 words on this book, but why would you need to read it?

The Short While by Jeremy Sorese

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I do not remember when I first heard of The Short While by Jeremy Sorese, but I know I did not think it was going to be this odd, realistic, fantastical journey. I thought it was going to be a nice love story with ups and downs. It was going to be two gay men going through life and the trials gay … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:3 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Mystery, Romance, Speculative Fiction · Tags: , , ·

Miscellaneous Shifter Ridiculousness (TM)

Claimed by Laurann Dohner and Kele Moon

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Warning: Contains one character accidentally "mating" (bonding someone to him for life) another character without their consent. Also contains kidnapping, threat of sexual assault, talk of eating humans in a non-sexytimes way, biting and consumption of blood in a sexytimes way, and Miscellaneous … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance · Tags: , , ·

Everything’s more fun with kids…maybe

Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy With My Kids by Scott Hershovitz

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I have often found philosophy frustrating at best. I'm a pretty concrete thinker, so when questions get too vague or nonsensical to me, I shake my head in annoyance and check out. But when I saw Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy With My Kids (2022) on NPR's latest list, I figured … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: ·

Do You Hear What I Hear? and if Not, So?

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

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When does a book become real? And for that matter, what is real? These questions run through Ruth Ozeki’s The Book of Form and Emptiness as the main character, Benny, fourteen years old, struggles with the death of his father, adolescence and the voices of inanimate objects that he cannot shut out. … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , ·

Box Office Flop

Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley

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In Sloane Crosley's Cult Classic, a woman named Lola is living many women's worst nightmare: she keeps running into her ex-boyfriends. Even worse? It's not an accident. Lola is a lifelike creation. She's smart and witty, but can also be acerbic and mean. She's able to clinically dissect the flaws … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·


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