Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Short and sweet, with great illustrations

The Dragon of Og by Rumer Godden

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Our 2025 read-aloud journey continues! I found this one thanks to a list along the lines of, “If you liked The Hobbit…” We read it in one afternoon (it’s very short), and both kids give it two thumbs up. The titular dragon has a lovely home under a pool in a river belonging to Lord of Tundergarth, a home found for him by his thoughtful mother. He is a shy, quiet dragon who eats only one bullock every 2 or 3 weeks, from the cattle […]

“You have to be very strong to live close to God or a mountain, or you’ll turn a little mad.”

Black Narcissus: A Novel by Rumer Godden

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Cbr16bingo Dun dun This is my first foray into Rumer Godden’s works. Black Narcissus was published in 1939 and was turned into a movie in 1947. Apparently it was made into a 3-part miniseries on FX a few years back, too. I was aware that Godden’s work often touched on matters of religion and spirituality but I was not prepared for the suspense and foreboding that haunt the pages of this story. It reminded me a bit of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca — an innocent […]

Gentle kids book for dollhouse fans

Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden

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I recently discovered the Internet Archive, where one can read older books online by borrowing 1 hour at a time.  This is a fantastic resource for those older books you loved as a kid.  I’ve been obsessed with dollhouses my whole life, and one of my favorite books was Little Plum by Rumer Godden, about little girls in England and their Japanese dolls and dollhouses.  However, as a kid I wasn’t able to get hold of the first book about the dolls, Miss Happiness and […]



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