Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


At least now I know where the term “Whirling Dervish” comes from

The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak

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That’s the most positive thing I can come up with about this book. What a slog this was.  The plot: Ella Rubinstein is a forty year old stay at home mother to two children and a possibly perpetually unfaithful husband. She takes up a job with a publishing house to revise a novel called Sweet Blasphemy by a man named Aziz Zahara. As she reads the novel, she becomes fascinated by the story of the novel, about the friendship between renowned 13th century poet Rumi […]

Introducing that 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi mystic: RUMI (Ruuumi…Ruuumi…Rummi…) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rumi–Poet of Joy and Love by Rashin Kheiriyeh

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The way to my heart is a good grilled cheese (or pb&j) and a glass of milk. But the other thing that gets me going is swag from book people. Especially if it is a book itself. Recently I was asked to take a survey about a publisher and its books. I thought why not? And the fact there was a thank you book to boot? Double why not!  And that thank you book was Rumi–Poet of Joy and Love by Rashin Kheiriyeh (concept by […]

Been sleeping on this guy. Even Madonna beat me to it.

Gold by Rumi

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A great first meeting story.  The year was 1244, when Rumi met Shams in a bazaar in Konya, Persia.  Rumi was a young scholar, and Shams, about twenty years older, was a wandering free thinker.  They got to discussing literature, and Shams challenged Rumi to find his own voice.  Over the course of two years of traveling together, Rumi did just that, and produced sixty five thousand some verses.  This book samples that work. I first ran into his name whilst reading a book on […]

Being a teenager is hard enough without the threat of total annihilation looming on the horizon.

I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

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Jesse, Cate, and Adeem are all just trying to survive- even before they catch wind of an alien planet’s message to earth: you will all be destroyed in seven days. Our main trio holds a treasure trove of teen torments between them: absent parents, the desire to be loved, the inability to accept care, the need to be anywhere other than where they are. Everyone is attempting to find someone who does not necessarily want to be found, and I was worried that we’d being […]



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