Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Incisive and Interesting Essays on Orthodox Jewish Childhood

Artifacts of Orthodox Jewish Childhood by Dainy Bernstein (editor)

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Artifacts of Orthodox Childhoods is a book of personal and critical essays that cover a historically under-researched topic. The book is inclusive of a wide range of viewpoints and backgrounds, and it benefits from the thought that went into the editing of the essays and the impulse to widen instead … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:54 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , ·

Fantastic second book!

The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart

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[review contains references and spoilers for Bone Shard Daughter, book one of The Drowning Empire trilogy] After defeating her father, Lin hoped taking over as emperor would be a smooth transition, but no one knows who she is and don’t trust the Sukai family after the terrors of tithing festivals … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

Don’t talk to cops. Or reporters. And never, ever, ever Mike Wallace.

The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

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"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." "Call me Ishmael." "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Allow me to nominate The Journalist and the Murderer's opening line for … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: ·

Too sweet

Kitty Sweet Tooth by Abby Denson

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I will start my review with, this is not my image of the graphic novel Kitty Sweet Tooth (book one) by Abby Denson. All of mine had big ol’ light/flash spots on it.  And very distracting. Besides, I liked the idea that some place out there someone has a Kitty Sweet Tooth doll. Granted, I do not want … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:314 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: , , , , , ·

You might be cool, but you’ll probably never be Have two dinosaurs named after you cool

The Fossil Whisper: How Wendy Sloboda Discovered a Dinosaur by Helaine Becker

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Kids can do some fair out stuff. Like find fossils of dinosaurs. Well, at least Wendy Sloboda did (the Wendiceratops), and we see how in The Fossil Whisper: How Wendy Sloboda Discovered a Dinosaur. As you will learn later in the book, she does more than that. Finding some of the most information … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:313 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

Soothing the Beast

Maya and the Beast by Maya Gabeira

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While this might not become a classic, or even will be in my Top 10 favorites of this year, Maya and the Beast by Maya Gabeira is a book that was very enjoyable and needs at least a re-read or two. There is a lot going on and cannot be digested all at once. Story and art complement and support each … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:312 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Sports · Tags: , , , ·


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