Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


She said No

Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Right Movement by Angela Joy

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Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Right Movement could actually be argued as just how Mamie Till-Mobley started the movement. I say that knowing what happened to Emmett Till, but I say that also because one mother stood up and said, “No. The land that killed my … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:311 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , ·

Be like a plunger

I Want to Be a Vase by Julio Torres

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I Want to Be a Vase has some great points. As the publisher description says: “An ambitious toilet plunger expresses his desire to be a vase.” This theme allows for a two-part story. The first part of Julio Torres’ story is that if you put your mind to it, you can be whatever you want to be. The … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:310 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: , , ·

They made a little noise

Stacey Abrams and the Fight to Vote by Traci Todd

Phenomenal AOC: The Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Anika Aldamuy Denise

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I guess you could say these two women changed the political scene a smidgen. And these two picture books are going to cause a little stir in the reading world.   “Sometimes she would light the way. Sometimes her way would be lit by others…” Stacey Abrams is more than just a politician. … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:309 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

Lilith’s Brood

Dawn by Octavia Butler

Adulthood Rites by Octavia Butler

Imago by Octavia Butler

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Dawn I hope no one ever comes for Octavia Butler. She's so good at exploring issues related to gender, our bodies, consent, sexuality, and our brains and demonstrating horror and disgust without getting didactic about it. A novel about significant and existentially nightmarish changes to our … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:318 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Hawaiian culture and nonbinary identities

Ho’onani: Hula Warrior by Heather Gale

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Ho’onani: Hula Warrior is and is not hard to talk about. But after you say a young dancer finds her place in her society and the male hula troupe at school by being herself, you have said it all. I mean you can say how her family (but not her sister) supports her choice of being nāhū (not wahine … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:307 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

A Middle-aged Coming of Age

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez

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Olga Acevedo and her brother, Prieto, are sort of minor celebrities in NYC - Prieto is a congressman representing the neighborhood where they grew up in Brooklyn, and Olga is an event planner with many wealthy clients (including Russian mobsters). On the face of it, they are both successful adults … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:53 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·


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