Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


My cup of books overflows

When You Look Out the Window: How Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin Built a Community by Gayle E. Pitman

This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman

They're So Flamboyant by Michael Genhart

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I was browsing an online catalog and found several titles on GLBTQ+ themes.  Some had a few pages to sample the goodies inside, but others had full text. I have picked a few and will be doing more in another review, but three per review should probably be a limit, otherwise your eyes will pop out at all the goodness in one place and not able to read! When You Look Out the Window: How Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin Built a Community by Gayle E. […]

Hair is not just a decoration

My Powerful Hair by Carole Lindstrom

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My Powerful Hair is a lovely story. Granted, I was looking for a more factual and less poetic story abut the meaning and importance of what the title meant, but it turned out just fine. All that information is given as a young child talks about how growing her hair out and why it is short to start with, is important to not just her, but her family and culture of her people. The culture of this child and her people unfold onto the pages […]

Now only the really tragic sections of the story are left

Sandman, Act III by Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs

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4.5 stars Act III of the full-cast audio adaptation of The Sandman was suddenly released with what felt like absolutely no fanfare or previous advertising. Suddenly, one day, it was just there on Audible. This installment covers the two collections Brief Lives and World’s End, as well as some of the stories collected in the anthology volume Fables and Reflections (the very first volume I ever read). It means we finally get the full and tragic story of Dream’s son Orpheus and his beloved Euridyce, […]

“Declan had put his identity crises on hold multiple times for the greater good. Matthew had only been asked to do it once.”

Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater

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This is NOT the place to start if you’re not caught up. Begin either with the start of this trilogy, Call Down the Hawk, or with the start of the previous series (in which Ronan is an essential character), The Raven Boys. This book kicks off a little while after the rather dramatic cliffhanger that the previous book left us with. Ronan and Hennessey are fugitives from the Moderators, learning new and helpful tricks to deal with their mysterious hunters from the enigmatic Bryde. According […]

Food, family and love

Chloe’s Lunar New Year. by Lily Lamotte

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I was hungry when I read two recent picture books about food (and family). Did this influence my taste in the books? No, because when I am hungry, I tend not to like a book, but I did the two I read. The second book (the first was a tasty treat about dim sum) was Chloe’s Lunar New Year. Here we leave the hustle and bustle of a restaurant behind and Lily Lamotte takes us into the family home. Here, Chloe is excited for the […]

Food for love, love for food

Dim Sum, Here We Come! by Maple Lam

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Do you like good food? I have been told that dim sum is a great way to go to try good foods. I have officially never gone to a dim sum restaurant, but our narrator has. Every Sunday with their family, in fact; and they look forward to it all week! Consisting of their parents, siblings, a couple grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins the family shares news, food, and so much more. The anticipation slowly builds up as we see the narrator’s anticipation, the surroundings […]



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