Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Time for picture book reviewing again!

Tomatoes for Neela by Padma Lakshmi

Tilda Tries Again by Tom Percival

Pout-Pout Fish: Passover Treasure by Deborah Diesen

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I am hungry. (Of course, that is like saying, it is Tuesday on Tuesday.) And a fun snack is cherry or grape tomatoes for me. Therefore, when I saw the word tomatoes in the title of this picture book, I was intrigued. In Tomatoes for Neela, Neela and her mother cook dishes and show how tomatoes play a role in foods of a culture. This task also shows how culture brings families together, even if one member (say, a beloved grandmother) is far away living […]

“We eat for our stomachs, but we hunger with our hearts.”

Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir by Padma Lakshmi

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Happy New Year’s Eve Eve, welcome to my last minute slew of reviews to catch myself up before CBR10 officially comes to a close! I’m a big Top Chef fan, despite my occasionally toddler like food preferences,  and was pleasantly surprised by host Padma Lakshmi’s memoir which covered both her career and personal life. She opens with her courtship and marriage to Salam Rushdie which, besides Top Chef, may be the thing she is most famous for doing. While her dissection of her failed marriage […]

I was pleasantly surprised to be so absorbed in this book – cbr10bingo Delicious!

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A friend game me Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir by Padma Lakshmi as a birthday present.  She acknowledged that non-fiction isn’t really my thing but she thought I might find it interesting.  She hadn’t read the book herself but had heard good things about it.  I don’t recall ever having read an autobiography, or biography for that matter.  And my friend was completely correct about me not being into non-fiction.  This is only my second non-fiction book this year out of my current 47 […]



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