Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


I wrote the review ages ago, but left the wording in present tense

This Is How I Say I Love You: Little Bunny’s Bedtime Story Told in English and Chinese by Dayong Gan

The Most Beautiful Painting: Discover the Mystery of Chinese Script (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition) by Yajuan Lu and Jian Li

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As a kid I remember checking out several folktale books from the school library. As an adult I learned to appreciate them in a way I never could have as a kid. One thing was how similar stories can pop up in different cultures, or how stories can be adapted for another setting. The other is you can learn about a country as well. And while I am not sure if the two books in this review will fit any of the above categories, or […]

No longer under his grandmother’s table

I Wish I Didn't Have to Tell You This: A Graphic Memoir by Eugene Yelchin

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I enjoy Eugene Yelchin as an author and illustrator. I have read several titles including, The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, Breaking Stalin’s Nose, and The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet! by Carmen Agra Deedy (illustrated by Yelchin). Therefore I was excited about I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You This: A Graphic Memoir written and illustrated by Yelchin. I was assuming it was going to be a memoir of his life during the early 1980s, but it […]

Two erasers in a pencil case

Inbetweens by Faith Erin Hicks

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When you are a fan of an author, or at least with me, I find one of two things happening with a book: Either  I love it so much that even if it is bad, I don’t notice. I am just a fan blinded by my fangirling mind. Or I am terribly disappointed and figure that there is no way my author wrote it, as I have way too high expectations for it. Thankfully Inbetweens by Faith Erin Hicks was neither.  It is in between […]

Lots of cat pictures and cat things

Cat by Leila Jarbouai, Hannah Shaw, Phaidon

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This one I picked up for the cover. Cartoon style black cat curled up, title simply “Cat”. It’s an art book, over 200 pages of cats in painting, photograph, wood cut, and objects over time. Each page has an image and the museum description (although not always where the original currently lives). There’s almost a little bit of everything, from graffiti, to an Hermes scarf, to a Garfield strip (had to wait a while for that one) to Nyan-cat to Warhol and Doré to da […]

May I introduce Tini Malina?

Fancy Dogs by Tini Malina and Tammi Reiche

Selma-The Story of a Stellar Spider by Tini Malina and Mariana Llanos

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The soon to be published (October 2026) picture book, Fancy Dogs by Tini Malina and Tammi Reiche is a cute story for the younger listener and a good just starting out solo reader. I am neither of these types of readers, but still felt this was a good book. Maybe not the best I’ve read, but one that I recommend to dog lovers of all ages. This book came to me via an online reader in an email from the publisher. I would email the […]

Road trips, miscommunication and untruths

The Halifax Hellions by Alexandra Vasti

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Novella 1: In Which Margo Halifax Earns Her Shocking Reputation (3.5 stars) Novella 2: In Which Matilda Halifax Learns the Value of Restraint (4.5 stars) Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book collects two previously self-published novellas of Alexandra Vasti’s, and includes an additional epilogue which has never before been available. Margo and Matilda Halifax are identical twins, the wealthy younger sisters of an Earl and have basically been seen as outrageous scandals for […]



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