Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Get your wolf on

Willa the Werewolf: A Fractured Fairy Tale V01 by Michele McAvoy

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cbr15bingo. In the Wild: Willa is a shifter, she is a Pig by Day and a Wild WereWolf-Pig at night in the wild world of Paris Fashion! The abstract realism to the illustrations of Willa the Werewolf: A Fractured Fairy Tale V01  was not something I enjoyed. Jan Dolby’s effort, I appreciate, but the results did not work for me. However, I can see how people would like the goofy, passionate, and sweet character of Willa, and how her world unfolds because of them. Her […]

The next car I name is going to be Priscilla Queen of the Desert

A Letter for Bob by Kim Rogers

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 cbr15bingo Bodies, Bodies: The car has bodies in it & the cars body holds them. Growing up my parents probably named more than a vehicle or two. We never had anything as solid as Bob (named by our young narrator) but I remember a few such as The Banana Boat (it was a 1972 light yellow Dodge Monaco) and The Roadrunner (it had roadrunner mud flaps), but we knew a good vehicle needed the love that the family shows their car in the picture book […]

I believe in mermaids and sister-cousins

My Cousin's Mermaid: A Story from Poland by Anna Staniszewski

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cbr15bingo Europe I saw it in a catalog. I saw it online. I was thinking it was a, “I probably should read this” book, but maybe not right away. Then my book dealer hooked me up with a sample copy of My Cousin’s Mermaid: A Story from Poland. It was now time to read (except I had to actually work and not have fun by reading. A drawback to getting your book fix sent to you at work).be Anna Staniszewski took the legends, folklore and stories […]

Hungry?

100 Chapatis by Derek Mascarenhas

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cbr15bingo Edibles: While not just another “food book” this book is about how food connects family When I first looked at 100 Chapatis I figured it was another food book. And it is; and it isn’t. What it is about is the love a grandparent/grandfather and grandchild/grandson have together. It is about their culture. It is about their food. It is about remembering the grandmother. And it is about having patience when your new sibling is on the way. It also is about the worries […]

A natural woman

Alice Guy: First Lady of Film by Jose-Louis Bocquet

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cbr15bingo History: Alice Guy was a woman who made history. And people did try to ban her (she talked about GASP birth control!) and if Texas or Florida got hold of this book?  You might think you know the film industry and/or know its history, but do you know about Alice Guy: First Lady of Film?  While I do not claim to know anything about the history of film, I never have. Of course, I am not one for knowing who directors are nor really […]

It’s not nice to spy on people hiding in the woods

What We Saw: A Thriller by Mary Downing Hahn

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cbr15bingo: Nostalgia: For the days when I first read this author, a young kid with no adult problems! When I was asked who my favorite author was as a kid, usually I would say Mary Downing Hahn. I had others (Walter Dean Myers, R. L. Stine, Christopher Pike, to name a few), but she was always one. Then, as an adult a gal I met via pen palling said she liked her too, so we bonded over our like of this author.  And when I […]



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