Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Uni Uni Unicorns and cupcakes and friendship and balloons and magic and fun

Unicornia V02: A Magical Birthday by Ana Punset

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While you would think I review every book I read, I actually don’t. Of course, I tend to write more reviews than not, even for books that might not have completely “grabbed” my “love” or “really like” buttons. Sometimes I write one because I didn’t finish it. But that is not the case with the below series/book. Not to say that Unicornia V02: A Magical Birthday by Ana Punset and Diana Vicedo (illustrator) was bad, it just did not grab me. This is partly because […]

Four books for the price of one review (and a lunch break filled with books)

The Peacock Who Howled with Jackals  by Nahid Kazemi

You Can't Tame a Tiger by Stephanie Ellen Sy

RJ and the Ticking Clock by Ian Duncan

Who Needs the Dark?: The Many Ways Living Things Depend on Darkness by Laura Alary

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The other day I found a few titles I was interested in via an email newsletter. When I looked them up to see if reader copies online were available, they had thumbnails of the images, but not the full  text. I read these introductions, but was hoping to find finished copies sometime in the future (as they are all summer and fall publications). The next day what to my wondering eyes did appear? It was eight tiny reindeer…. I mean, those four titles I had […]

Honey I Shrunk the Sleepover and found a magical artifact

Forsynthia V02: The Shrink Ray Sleepover by Rachel DiNunzio

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A while back, I found Forsynthia V01: Rise of the Cupcakes  by Rachel DiNunzio in an online reader copy. I was blown away. I thought it was one of the most fun, cute, silly, adorable, graphic novels I had seen. It was “spooky” as we had to fight attacking cupcakes, but it was sweet (not just because of the cupcakes) but because it was funny, clever and the family dynamic was perfect. The sisters get along. The parents are modern and caring (if maybe a […]

Presenting Hesse and Karas awesome collaboration

Night Job by Karen Hesse

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Night Job by Karen Hesse and illustrated by G. Brian Karas was almost put aside to read. It is not due until later October 2025, but I needed to see how these two would work together. I think of Hesse as a slightly more serious author and Karas as a lighter illustrator. Not saying it couldn’t work, but first thoughts are first thoughts. And they became probably one of my new favorite duos. The story is a bit on the lighter side allowing Karas almost […]

Forced to leave home

Wings to Soar by Tina Athaide

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Diversity CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge April is Poetry Month. Therefore in March I decided to find a few books of poetry or novels that were prose poetry. And one of them was Wings to Soar by Tina Athaide. Currently available, I read it via an online reader copy. I do not think I will purchase copies for myself, but I think anyone who is interested in refugees, women authors or places we do not normally read about, this is the book for you. Aimed at […]

Talking to Dad

Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison—and How We Stayed Connected by Jay Jay Patton, Antoine Patton, Kiara Valdez and Markia Jenai

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I went to the library to drop off some books I had finished and to drop off my reading challenge form. My ride had some errands to run, so I told them to drop me off, and I would use the library as a way to pick up and read a few books I normally wouldn’t read. But first, I looked at the children’s room. I hadn’t been in there too often, and not since they had updated it. But the fist section I went […]



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