Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Can’t no man play like me. Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll, by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow,

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Can’t no man play like me. Sister Rosetta Tharpe   I know I had heard of Sister Rosetta Tharpe before. Unfortunately, I had forgotten about her. But recently she was a performer I refound (see my Green Piano review) when this picture book by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow, Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll, came up on my radar. As well as Queer as All Get Out by Shelby Criswell (review to […]

The boy named Penelope who was also a ninja

Born Ready: A True Story of a Boy Named Penelope by Jodie Patterson

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I have been aware of Born Ready: A True Story of a Boy Named Penelope for awhile now. I was not necessarily rushing to read, but I knew that it would be on the TBR pile soon enough. When I finally got my hands on a copy of Jodie Patterson’s book, I was glad I read it, but at the same time a bit disappointed. There was nothing “new” added to the theme of a transgender child. We see at a young age Penelope telling […]

We are Family

Just Like a Mama by Alice Faye Duncan

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When I first read the title, I thought it said Just Like Mama. No “A.” And that for certain changes the meaning of the book. Just Like a Mama is a modern story about the things a “not mom” does to help the young child of the story. Mama Rose might not be the “actual” mother, but she loves the narrator (Carol Olivia Clementine), makes her do her chores, tells her to eat her vegetables and all the other things mamas do. Carol goes through […]



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