Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


not exaaaaactly what it says on the tin, but a good time none the less!

Fuzz by Mary Roach

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Honestly, Mary Roach could write a book about the paperwork filing systems for an auto dealership (my truest nightmare) and I would still roll up my sleeves and give it a go. Luckily, the topic  of animal criminals is NOT my nightmare, so I was eagerly anticipating another romp with my gal, Mary! As usual, I listened to this one, and if you are interested in picking it up I recommend doing the same as well! I almost always prefer a read-by-the-author piece of non-fic […]

Not going to lie – I pictured Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley in my head when reading this

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

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Olive Smith is a Ph.D. candidate working on her thesis at Stanford and really has neither the time nor the inclination for anything romantic. However, she did briefly date a guy who her best friend is now gaga over, and because Olive needs to convince her BFF, Ahn, that she is well and truly over said guy, she lies and claims she dating someone else. However, since her friend remains skeptical, Olive needs somebody she is supposedly dating, and this is how she ends up […]

Season of the Puddle

Hello, Puddle! by Anita Sanchez

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Ever wondered about the life of a puddle? What? You think it is empty? I thought so too, but then I read Hello, Puddle! by Anita Sanchez. Okay, I probably should not admit this but when I started reading, I thought, “That’s a small pond. The turtle is bigger than it!” Then, I went back and read “puddle” not “pond” in the title. But I can be forgiven (please) for thinking that as the puddle has a life as a mini pond. The tadpoles grow […]

I read some books and I want you to know about them

The Pack by Amanda Cley

A Perfect Spot by Isabelle Simler

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A surprise in the mail other day found its way to my desk. Two hardcover picture books from a publisher I do not remember asking for (but I am on publishers’ lists so it could be they cold-sent!) called The Pack by Amanda Cley and Cecilia Ferri and A Perfect Spot by Isabelle Simler. The Pack is spooky. Not in the usual sense of “creepy ghosts or goblins” but the tone is somber, and the sepia colors (with the hints of rare other colors just […]

I used 266 words to describe a wordless book

Whirl by Deborah Kerbel

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One hundred eighty-seven words are what the publisher description includes. If you wish to read about the title Whirl by Deborah Kerbel, this is your introduction.  Yes, it deserves to be talked about, but I find it amusing that a wordless picture book (except for the description at the end about maple seeds) has that many words to describe it. The result of that description is to tell you the whole story. You do not get to experience it fresh. I was lucky enough to […]

What a gas! Unsung hero gets her day in the stars

Blast Off! How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America Into Space by  Suzanne Slade

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Another unsung hero who made it possible to touch the stars was Mary Morgan. And we see how Morgan was a girl who at age eight could not read/write but by the time she was an adult she was doing chemistry, making fuels for rockets and barely had a college education in Blast Off! How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America Into Space.  Suzanne Slade shows how Morgan was not going to let “doing chores” hold her back, and she was not going to let the […]



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