Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I’m Naked! I’m Naked! I’m Me!

Fred Gets Dressed by Peter Brown

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Fred Gets Dressed is a modern story about a child finding the outfit that fits that day’s expression.  As a wild, independent, and typical kid, Fred, runs around naked. Then decides to try an experiment with their parents clothing coming to an understanding what outfit works best. It is an obvious story, simple and sweet. The “middle ground” with the liking or not category would be: “I did not hate it but did not love it.” There will be several “OMG! Loooooved it!” (Said in […]

“One night. I just want one night of sleep”…”Is it that too much to to ask? One night where I don’t have to babysit or dig up a corpse?…”

The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson

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Part of my Simon and Schuster publisher online finds included The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson. A mouthful of a title that almost hides the plot of this young adult novel. The Past is a messy, quirky, simple and a modern teen novel. Even the unlikable characters can be likable. This is mostly since you can sympathize with what is going on, even if you have never been a reanimated, dead, best ex-friend. (Images are three of the […]

Break a leg

Roxy the Unisaurus Rex Presents: Oh NO! The Talent Show by Eva Chen

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In the mix of my 130 emails (I know, so few for most, but for me, that is an unbelievable amount!) I have an email from a rep of the bookstore. They send out a list of new books coming from a website we use to order and/or look at titles on. And occasionally there is a snippet or two/a page or three, that gives you a hint of what is to happen. However, they also sometimes have links to download or in the case […]

Trying to find a new read, I found this and a few things about me.

Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

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I found out that Simon and Schuster can give you free eBooks! I can now get eBooks through a venue not NetGalley (as I have mentioned my woes with them before) even though I much prefer “the real deal” over online. I knew that most of these titles would not be at my library, and I would not want to own copies, therefore, this was a great way to read them. And when I saw the cover of Tash Hearts Tolstoy (a grumpy Tolstoy starring […]

Pride Month is going full swing and is slaying.

Pride Puppy! by Robin Stevenson

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Pride Month is going full swing and is slaying. One book that is getting much attention is Pride Puppy! by Robin Stevenson and illustrated by Julie McLaughlin. The cover is “in your face” colors and images. But that is not a bad thing. It just lets you know what to expect inside. And that inside is not only an alphabet book that connects to terms used to express ideas and such within the community, but also has pages of busy images, colors, text, and a […]

The play is the thing….but life is more complicated than that (or is it?)

Please Come Off-Book by Kevin Kantor

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Please Come Off-Book is an interesting metaphor for life. If you are not familiar with the term (I think I had heard it, but also was not completely familiar with it at the same time) it means that when you are in a play, do not have your script and come having memorized your lines. In other words, my interpretation of Kevin Kantor’s use here means, “Live your life without a script, but of course, we do that anyways, but boy do we really need […]



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