Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Read a little poetry

Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship    by Irene Latham, Charles Waters, Sean Qualls and Selina Alko

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Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship  by Irene Latham (author), Charles Waters (author), Sean Qualls (illustrator), Selina Alko (illustrator)   I had forgotten I read the poetry collection, Can I Touch Your Hair? years ago, therefore, it felt like reading it for … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:101 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

Reverso Poems

Echo Echo: Reverso Poems About Greek Myths by Marilyn Singer and Josée Masse

Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems by Marilyn Singer and Josée Masse

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From Marilyn Singer: A reverso is a poem with two halves. In a reverso, the second half reverses the lines from the first half, with changes only in punctuation and capitalization — and it has to say something completely different from the first half. And they claim the right to say they invented … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:100 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

Haiku for is for the birds

Whoo-Ku Haiku: A Great Horned Owl Story by Maria Gianferrari and Jonathan D. Voss

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The picture book Whoo-Ku Haiku: A Great Horned Owl Story by Maria Gianferrari and illustrator Jonathan D. Voss is realistic (it talks about how the owl eats, is a bird of prey) but is also age appropriate. Which I would say ranges from a strong age of 5 and up. It can be for older students/children … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:98 · Genres: Children's Books, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

Poems and animals, poetry galore. Read the first and you’ll want more

If Pets Wrote Poems: A Parody Collection by Susan Johnston Taylor and Sandie Sonke

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Reading poetry used to be a fun pastime for me. However, recently, I have not been able to find a poet or collection that speaks to me. Things feel overly complicated, too lofty, too trying to be “deep and meaningful” with great subjects, but fall flat in the understanding of what the heck is being … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:97 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

“How is a brussels sprout concentrated?” “Well, it’s basically a really intense cabbage.”

While You Were Seething by Charlotte Stein

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This is going to be a challenging review to write because the emotional payoff in the end is the part I want to write about. I loved it so much. Reading While You Were Seething is like watching a volcano. You see the pressure growing, the little bursts where Daisy and Caleb reveal more of their … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: , ·

Underwhelming and Emotionally Manipulative

Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

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I had high expectations for this book and was significantly underwhelmed by the execution. The main character is Zelu, a paraplegic Nigerian-American writer. Not long after the book starts, she loses her job, and her literary fiction novel is rejected yet again. She decides to write a new book, a … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , ·


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