Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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The struggles, tragedies, and triumphs of three women in three time periods

Weyward by Emilia Hart

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My book club knocked it out of the park this month with Weyward.  Coincidentally,  Barnes and Noble chose it as this month’s speculative fiction pick.  Clearly we have excellent taste.  Emilia Hart has crafted a moving narrative across time by telling us the story of Altha Weyward in 1619, Violet Aryes in 1942, and Kate Aryes in 2019.  Altha, Violet, and Kate are Weyward women.  Born with the gift of being in tune with and connected to nature. For Altha, raised by her mother, another Weyward […]

Oh, you’re the best friend that I ever had (and not bad of a book either)

Crab and Snail: The Invisible Whale by Beth Ferry

Sir Ladybug by Corey R. Tabor

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The new reader copies are coming in and Fall 2021, Winter 2022 and Spring 2022 are looking good. Two of them are below. Or the adult reader they were a lunch time read, for the age aimed at, you can take your time reading a few pages at a time. Crab and Snail: The Invisible Whale is due Spring 2022. Author Beth Ferry and illustrator Jared Chapamn have created a book that is a fun story about the ocean and about friends and friendship. However, […]

Making all things Death interesting, with Pictures

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty

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So technically I started this book on New Year’s Eve day but I did not get it finished in time to be a final review of 2019, so here it is as my first review of 2020. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? is very much as it has been advertised: an entertaining, yet informative discussion of various questions a mortician has been asked about death and dying. The one thing that I was not expecting and still kind of doubt is the claim that […]

Buggies are cool

Bugs in Danger: Our Vanishing Bees, Butterflies, and Beetles by Mark Kurlansky

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Bugs in Danger: Our Vanishing Bees, Butterflies, and Beetles by Mark Kurlansky is this years Something Rotten: A Fresh Look at Roadkill by Heather L. Montgomery for me. This is not because it has a similar theme nor is nearly as humorous as Montgomery’s book. But it does take a subject (bugs) that I have no interest in and made it interesting. I think buggies are cool, but I had no real interests in learning about them. But I liked the book cover. I figured I […]

The Book is more Interesting than the Content

The Enemies of Books by William Blades

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I picked this book up in an antique bookstore in Tokyo. I bought it mostly for the title, expecting a history of censorship, which is a topic I’ve always been interested in. What I got was more literally interpretation of enemies. Blades covers fire, water, vermin and dust as if they are free thinking enemies actively planning the destruction of books. His focus is entirely on the books as items that carry knowledge and not as special items in themselves. He says, “The value of […]

It’s like the Double Dare obstacle course in book form!

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What’s a good way to get your kids interested in life science?  This book about gross stuff that’s printed in purple and green is a good start.



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