Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


A Book Personality

Little Blue House Beside the Sea by Jo Ellen Bogart

Play Outside by Laurent Moreau

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Picture books are a great way to sit and read a good book, but you do not have to invest a large amount of time into them. Besides, they can help you learn about people’s personalities. These two books are great “personality finders.” One is a modern story, but has a soft, old-school, classic feel; while the other is more modern. Knowing the audience that will enjoy these can help you find a novel for them. Yet, there is nothing wrong with a good picture […]

Making me feel glad to feel the wind on my face

Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane

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It seems that the things I’m most fascinated by are those that also frighten me the most. Afraid of the deep sea, I’ll spend months reading about naval horrors, devour tales of explorers (whether they survived or not) while also preferring to not really leave my house, and frequently consider booking a trip through the Paris Catacombs despite being somewhat claustrophobic with a face-clawing terror of actually being underground. Perhaps that’s why I found this book so deeply interesting – an exploration of places I […]

A urgent rallying cry

We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom

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We Are Water Protectors will be another book that will get people talking about the situation presented. Perhaps it will not be as popular as others, but this book deals with Native American and environmental issues that are relative to the current environment we live in. While it is based on the Carole Lindstrom’s experiences growing up and the contemporary events of the peoples; it is a book that is for everyone. It shows what one group of people are trying to do. This is […]

Gives ‘fashion conscious’ a new meaning

The Conscious Closet by Elizabeth L. Cline

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Having an eco-conscience (did I just make up a word?) can be hard, but it doesn’t mean you have to wear bad clothes.  Following on from her previous book, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, which gave us the ‘why’ behind re-thinking our fashion purchases, The Conscious Closet steps out the ‘how’. From cleaning out your closet responsibly (hint: this does NOT mean doing the after-hours ‘dirty drop off’ of your worn out and likely unwearable clothes at your local charity shop in the vain hope that they’ll […]

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 […]

Be connected to everything

Listen by Holly M. McGhee

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Listen by Holly M. McGhee is a spiritual and deep story. The reader can interpret the whom (the narrator) that is speaking as either an all-knowing narrator or it is plausible that the book is the child that we see in Pascal Lemaitre’s illustrations. Either interpretations make for interesting reading depending on your choice as both narrators are valid choices. The plot is to inspire empathy and to have us open all of ourselves, all our senses, to become aware of nature, of the world […]



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