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Hocus and Pocus Series

Hocus & Pocus The Legend of Grimm's Wood by Manuro

Hocus & Pocus the Search for the Missing Dwarves by Manuro

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This is a Choose Your Own Adventure comic book series. You can play as the brother (Hocus) or the sister (Pocus). You also have a magic creature. You get to choose which one. There are also puzzles in here, so it is a bit more than a simply “turn to page x”. Additionally, which magic creature you have effects the outcome. The artwork is cool. The siblings split up but come back together. I really love the fact that there is no real difference between Hocus […]

Nice Take on Cinderella

If the Shoe Fits by Deborah Guarino and Seth Hippen

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Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Cinderella might be the most popular fairy tale in the world. It seems as if each culture has its own version, there are the off shoots such as Coat of Many Furs, there are movies and more movies, the character appears in I don’t know how many books. There is even a short novel told from the viewpoint of one the transformed rats. So, do we really need another Cinderella story? Well, we do need […]

Trolls, trolls, and mice

Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Denmark by Chronicle Books and Ulla Thynell

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Disclaimer: ARC provided by the publisher via Netgalley. This collection of stories from Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, and Finland draws from famous collections, but also lesser known collections. It is divided int three sections transformations, wit, and journeys. While East of the Sun, West of the Moon is included many of the stories are not as well known. The collection starts with “The Forest Bride” about a young man who marries a mouse. It ends with the story of “Jack of Sjoholm and the Gan-Finn”. […]

50 People Who Messed Up the World by Alexander Parker and Tim Richman

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So Alex Jones is my age, and he looks at least a decade older. I didn’t know that. It’s an interesting book if, perhaps, not as funny as they think they are. The 50 are mostly men and mostly white, but run not only the political spectrum but also sports, media, and so on. They pick “silly” choices like pop and reality stars, but also serious ones and people they might agree with politically.  For instance, politicians who mean well but whose ideas were harmful […]

https://cannonballread.com/2019/06/50-people-who-messed-up-the-world-chris/

Strong Debut

There There by Tommy Orange

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There are people who wonder why the need for diverse books exists. Sometimes they can admit that there are not enough minorities in works of fiction, but that is usually followed by something along the lines of “minorities should write them then”. Combine that with the issue of approbation and these same people then add something like “why should white men write about other groups when they always combine it is wrong”. Of course, that is the answer to the question itself. But a book […]

Syria's Secret Library by Mike Thomson

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Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley Ursula K Le Guin tells the story of a place whose happiness depends on one child being miserable in “The One Who Walks Away from Omelas” and the reactions to those when they discover it. In part, our ability to exist in the world is on our ability to disregard or ignore horrors, but sometimes we refuse that happiness, refuse to bow to the horrors. In many ways, Thomson’s book makes me think of that story as well as how much […]

https://cannonballread.com/2019/05/syrias-secret-library-chris/



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