Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


A story gem

Brown is Beautiful by Supriya Kelkar

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I am going to cheat and give you the publisher description: On a hike with her grandparents, a young Indian-American girl makes note of all the things in the wilderness that are brown, too. Includes instructions on how to make a scrapbook. Why am I cheating? Because that is all you need to … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:204 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , ·

Let’s talk about the Ship of Theseus

Mickey7 by Edward Ashton

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Well, this was a delightful little SciFi romp, and a super quick read. Imagine, if you will, one of the infamous Red Shirts from your favorite SciFi show. Poor guys – they just have to keep recruiting more and more of them as they get killed on away missions. Well, in Mickey’s world, they’ve solved … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: ·

All about Benny

Benny’s True Colors by Norene Paulson

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I have read books about transgender adults. I have read books about trans kids. In these books they will live their true selves. They can be who they are not only on the inside but outside. However, I am not sure how to interpret Benny’s True Colors within my experiences of these other books. I … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:203 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Health · Tags: , , , , , ·

Another I want to put fantasy not History to

Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott

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Two comments about Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott I liked it 2. Read it   But that is only fifteen words and I need 250. The story follows two Jewish girls as they survive Auschwitz as their families and others perish around them. The story is told in alternating chapters between … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:202 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion, Young Adult · Tags: , , , ·

Sorry for your Trouble

Sorry for your Trouble by Richard Ford

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I was in a grad class in 2005-2006 in the two semesters during and then after Hurricane Katrina. And this was a little bit after the south Asian tsunami that killed 200,000+ people. The professor talked about both events as the kinds of things that would become touchstones in literature, both in … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:198 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Inventing a Nation

Inventing a Nation by Gore Vidal

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I was 20 on 9/11/01, and in the previous year, my first year of college, I watched the returns of the 2000 presidential election and the extended recounts and the installation of GW Bush as the president by a partisan Supreme Court (phew, thank god we don't have partisan supreme courts any more!). … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:197 · Genres: History · Tags: ·


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