Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

You are a poet! And you are a poet! And I (try to be) a Poet!

You're a Poet: Ways to Start Writing Poems by Sean Taylor and Sam Usher

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When you judge a book by its cover, usually you are going to be mostly right, with of course, exceptions. You see a book that looks like You’re a Poet: Ways to Start Writing Poems by Sean Taylor and Sam Usher (illustrated by) and you assume it is going to be terribly cute, silly, maybe even overly saccharine. And in this case you are not wrong. But you are also not completely right.  Yes it is cute, and yes it is a little silly and honestly, […]

Fox and Boar are friends

Tiny Fox and Great Boar Book Two: Furthest by Berenika Kolomycka

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Tiny Fox and Great Boar Book Two: Furthest has three different stories that are connected. Berenika Kolomycka’s second book in this series is set in three different locations. The first is a meadow, the second during their travels and a foggy mountain, and the final one the seaside/the ocean. Now, it might have helped to have known book one, but this book does mostly stand on its own. The format is broken into three chapters that show the travels and adventures of two characters, Tiny […]

Something that happened in the ’80’s can be history, right?

Robert Pickton: The Pig Farmer Serial Killer (Crimes Canada: True Crimes That Shocked The Nation Book 1) by Chris Swinney

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So my friend got me started listening to a true crime podcast based on the most recent story she heard.  It was about a pig farmer named Robert Pickton.  He was apparently a semi-notorious Canadian serial killer.  I didn’t even know that Canada had serial killers! She told me about a book that they kept mentioning, but it was like $15 and I didn’t feel like spending any money that day, so I borrowed the Kindle Unlimited version of the story from Amazon.  Well, it […]

Do you believe that Pirates don’t takes baths and there are Groovicorns?

Pirates Don’t Take Baths by John Sega

Do You Believe in Groovicorns? by Rosie Greening

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Yesterday was a slow day at work. Therefore, I took a few minutes to look at the new crop of Sale Books that came in. (Long story short, they are just lovely normal books looking for a home, but just have a slightly lower price than usual). Two books that caught my attention were two board books. One, Pirates Don’t Take Baths by John Segal and the other, I actively went looking for as I had been the one to do the data entry on […]

A book so bad you quote a line from How the Grinch Stole Christmas! cartoon

I Love You Like a Pig by Mac Barnett

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I should take my own advice and say that, “This book stinks, stanks, stunk!” enough times to cover the 250-word requirement. When I saw Barnett’s book, I Love You Like a Pig, sitting there on the sale table bells went off. I still cannot remember why this book was in the back of my mind (other than it has gotten attention over the years), but I am not sure why it has gotten attention. I am sorry to say if I could give this book […]

Obviously when pigs fly…..

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The saving grace for The Dreamer is at the very end. I liked the “full circle” of the pig “admiring the birds” at the start and finish. The in-between is what I am not crazy about. The theme of “keep trying” and “making mistakes” has been done. Many times. The only difference here is that the friends and neighbors of the pig help him. Usually the “keep trying” is seen as a solo act. And the pig listens to the other animals. That seemed like […]



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