Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Forward and Backwards

Flipping Forward Twisting Backward by Alma Fullerton

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When I say Flipping Forward Twisting Backward by Alma Fullerton has a classic feeling story with a little bite, I mean the story might feel a bit “old hat” in today’s themes that are a bit more mature, or “updated.” What I mean is that this book feels like something I would have read from ages (at least 8) to a (younger) 12.  And when I was growing up, there were the Big Four Themes. The first was divorce, the second a friend having diabetes, the […]

Fun Dogs and Funky Grandmothers

Dalmartian: A Mars Rover's Story by Lucy Ruth Cummins

Gaga Mistake Day by Emma Straub, Susan Straub

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Books are my thing. In my high school yearbook I was the one to be found reading. (Okay, it might have been because nobody on the yearbook team really knew me, but they also were not wrong). And this would make most think that I have never met a book I have not wanted to read. Trust me, I’ve met plenty (I’m looking at you self-published Zombie Christmas trees….Though I did try three pages…). Some days these “don’t wants” never get read, some are started […]

A Rally Scoring story

Match Point! by Maddie Gallegos

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Match Point! by Maddie Gallegos is available but I was lucky enough to still have my online reader copy. However, there were a few places where a physical copy would have been welcomed. Things can be a bit crowded, though the images are a nice minimalistic approach, but are still giving you the extras illustrations have to move a story along.  The story is familiar, Rosie is a girl who does not like racquetball because of how her father pushes her into it, how he […]

Her House is a Very Crazy (and loving) house

The Apartment House on Poppy Hill V01 by Nina LaCour

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The Apartment House on Poppy Hill V01 by Nina LaCour is part Part Pippi Longstocking and part Mary Poppins. It is about a young girl, Ella, who knows everything there is about the apartments in her house on the hill. Like it is not on the top or the bottom of the hill, but in the middle. She knows the strict rules for the garden. How to park on the hill (even though she is only nine). And that the house has five apartments, A […]

So why do I like it? I really don’t know

Revival Deluxe Collection V02 by Tim Seeley, Mike Norton, Jenny Frison

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I won’t say a lot about the plot of Revival Deluxe Collection V02 because it is just a continuation of volume one. But will summarize: After New Years Day, in a small Wisconsin town, the dead decided to sit up and say, “Howdy!” Okay, it wasn’t that neat, but the point is, a few of the dead didn’t stay dead. The rest is one really really screwed up ride where we see how ugly and unpredictable life is, and how the loved ones of the […]

June is Pride Month but these work any month!

Linus by Stuart Hausmann

Plátanos Are Love by Alyssa Reynoso-Morris

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June is Pride Month. I have been trying to catch up on some older titles, but there are a lot of new ones, too, so I just never seem to be able to. However, the other day I found two older ones called Linus written and illustrated by Stuart Hausmann and Plátanos Are Love by Alyssa Reynoso-Morris with illustrations by Mariyah Rahman. I was able to locate online reader copies, but both titles are currently out.  It was easy to see by page one how […]



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