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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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I am a Professional Book Pusher. Reading is a passion, as is writing, bragging about nephews, and alligator wrestling. My first year participating was 2018. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: BlackRaven's Quick Questions interview.)

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And then I read volume two

Huck, Volume 2: Big Bad World by Mark Millar, Rafael Albuquerque and various

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While I wasn’t as into Huck, Volume 2: Big Bad World as I was the first one, Huck Volume 1: All-American, Huck and the Supers are an interesting group of people and their continuation story has its appeal. Creators Mark Millar (author), Rafael Albuquerque (illustrator), Dave McCaig (colorist), and Clem Robins (letterer), made a world where our hero of book one, Huck (a big, sweet, not the brightest cookie in the jar, but has a big ol’ heart kind of guy), has found himself a […]

Captain Superman

Huck Volume 1: All-American by Mark Millar and Rafael Albuquerque

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If Superman was a smidgen less Super and more Man, but still had powers and Captain America had no Captain in his name, but still had a really big heart, pumped gas for a living and was not the smartest cookie in the container, you would have Huck Volume 1: All-American by Mark Millar and illustrator Rafael Albuquerque.  The character of Huck is a bit of a clique. He is nice, sweet, good looking, not too bright but has a giving heart. He’ll find things, […]

Obsession: Not the hot new perfume

Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Hell Screen: The Manga Edition (Tuttle Japanese Classics in Manga) by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Mihiro

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Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Hell Screen: The Manga Edition (Tuttle Japanese Classics in Manga) by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Mihiro (adapter) is very literary. Being just enough spooky to not be “safe for work” but not necessarily over the top, but it is mature. And I cannot tell you what I feel about the story because W T F?????????????????  It is torture porn (but you know, done nicely). It is the madness of a man who has greatness and those around him who want and envy it. It […]

middle-aged reflection and other poems

The Soft Black Stars by Matthew Buckley Smith

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The Soft Black Stars by Matthew Buckley Smith was a gift from a friend of mine. She and I compare our poetry and she has been an excellent editor and inspiration to me. Our styles vary immensely (usually she writes personal, longer poetry, with clever use of styles and formats; mine are a bit shorter, less personal, free verse). Occasionally I will have a surprise package and a book will be that surprise. Usually a poetry collection that she has been part of, a friend […]

Don’t judge a movie by its book

The Thicket by Joe R. Lansdale

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Did Joe R. Lansdale have Peter Dinklage in mind when he wrote the character Shorty’s look, or was I projecting? Maybe a bit of one, a lot of the other. You see, the novel, The Thicket, only came to be on my TBR list because I had seen the movie starring Dinklage. I won’t go into that too much, but will say it is not a horrible movie as it had its moments, and I had fun picking apart those, “You did that?” scenes. But […]

Saddle up cowpokes

Gumshoe: A Graphic Novel by Brenna Thummler,

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To be honest, Gumshoe: A Graphic Novel by Brenna Thummler, didn’t “do it” for me as I had hoped. Thummler’s books Anne of Green Gables A Graphic Novel,  Sheets, Lights, and Delicates were good, but sometimes you don’t hit a homerun with an author you’ve enjoyed. With that said, ages at least 10 and up, but more likely 12 and up, will have a blast. We have Willa, a young girl with social anxiety, who runs away from home and meets up with a gang of […]



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