Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


I wrote this a few hours before I heard of the current events

V Is for Voting by Kate Farrrell

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NOTE: I wrote the below review before I heard about the riots. I want to present this review as it was before I had my feelings of the recent events. Before I knew that my cousin’s son was working (though in Virginia) someplace near Washington DC. Before I knew my cousin was hearing gunshots and racial slurs outside her apartment. Before she started playing phone tag to make sure her friends were safe. Before I became sick to my stomach at the horrors we keep […]

Students, Nonviolence and History Begin Made

March: Book One by John Lewis

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#cbr11bingo #History   March: Book One by John Lewis is one of those books I wish I did not have to rate. Mostly because, while I enjoyed the experience of reading it, I am actually not a fan. Let me explain. I appreciate everything about it: the build up to the historical March on Washington. The showing of the Civil Rights movement by the youth of this country has a slightly different spin then what your textbooks probably taught you. The seeing history unfold does […]

Daisy, Dad and a Motorcycle

My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero’

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My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a good father and daughter story that is based on Isabel Quintero’s own experiences as a child with her father and driving around the city they called home. Quintero brings together the past (the races they had on what is now the main street), present (the dog chasing them, and their favorite shaved ice place closed) and future (a cart that sells shaved ice). The sense of family and community is loudly presented. It is also boldly presented with […]

Don’t Say We Didn’t Try

Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe by Rebecca Erbelding

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Due to extensive documentation in all manner of media, World War II is an enduring object of fascination. Just when we think we’ve heard everything, the inexhaustible well comes up with something new. In my favored stories of resistance, espionage, politicking, and propaganda, the Holocaust—Nazi Germany’s systematic genocide of Jews in occupied Europe—is impossible to avoid. (Yes, other minority groups were targeted, too. This book is not about them.) It’s a favorite pastime among WWII buffs to finger people, besides the Germans, who ought to […]

“A barbarian who cannot write a sentence of grammar and can hardly spell his own name.” (John Quincy Adams)

Andrew Jackson: The Making of America by Teri Kanefield

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This book took a while to get through, not because it is bad, but I was reading other books at the time and the subject was not 100% grabbing me. This book (as the title says) shows us Andrew Jackson and his part in Making America. And this is not an easy subject.  Andrew Jackson: The Making of America is the second book in this series). Alexander Hamilton was the first and Lincoln will be the third and Susan B. Anthony: the fourth. So far, […]

What would you do if you were arrested for wearing pants?

Mary Wears What She Wants by Keith Negley

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Mary Wears What She Wants and there is nothing you can do about it! Well, there is something you could do: You can make fun of her, tell her she is not “lady like” by wearing pants, protest, yell and make her feel bad about herself. Or you could support her. Keith Negley has taken the real-life story of Mary Edwards Walker of Oswego, New York and made a fiction story about the day Mary decided she did not like wearing dresses (with all their […]



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