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A reader and caffeine addict who consumes all sorts of books, some just more frequently than others. Your CBR Book Club Maven with over a decade of Cannonballing experience I believe in the beauty that comes from a common goal of reading, reviewing, and discussing. Also, Fuck Cancer. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: faintingviolet's Quick Questions interview.)

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Blue Beetle, Volume 1: Metamorphosis by Tony Bedard, Ig Guera (Illustrator), J.P. Mayer (Illustrator), Ruy Jose (Illustrator)

Blue Beetle, Volume 2: Blue Diamond by Tony Bedard, Ig Guera (Illustrator), Marcio Takara (Illustrator)

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One of my friends asked me to go with her to see the new Blue Beetle movie and I agreed, knowing nothing about the character. She knew that, as I’m notoriously not a comics reader, so she handed me two volumes of the comic when we went to see Across the Spiderverse together last month. I put it off until the last minute, but as we’re going tomorrow, I figured I better get to it. All I can say is that I hope the movie […]

Siskel & Ebert Get the Biography Treatment

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer

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The core of Opposable Thumbs is the relationship between Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert and how it turned into the entity “Siskel & Ebert” that still dominates the movie review and criticism landscape more than a decade after the death of its last surviving member. It is the nature of that professional relationship, born from a natural wellspring of competition, which turned into decades of increased media literacy. It began in earnest in 1975, when the two men met for lunch in a Chicago pub […]

“For most autistics existing in a world not built for them, anxiety is the baseline and constant background hum that their daily life has to play over.”

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

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Before this book I knew Fern Brady not at all. She’s made a name for herself between the UK comedy and television scenes, and while I enjoy a British panel show I’ve managed to miss Brady entirely. I decided to request this book from NetGalley based purely on the fact that this is a memoir of a woman who was diagnosed with autism as an adult and that’s a story I am very interested in. Like Brady, I too do a reasonably convincing impression of […]

#CannonBookClub October Book Club Announcement

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Banned Graphic Novel Book Club Discussion Now Open – Join us today for the discussion! Last year when we decided to have a Banned Books Book Club the timing felt right – it was the 40th anniversary of the creation of Banned Books Week and nationally we were seeing an uptick in challenges against books for a variety of reasons. The uptick turned out to be a tidal wave unprecedented since ALA started keeping statistics – 2022 had the highest number of challenges ever and […]

Art Crime Makes a Reappearance

Stealing the Show: A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts by John Barelli

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May is Preservation Month, and in honor of that there is a push in the museum community to work on safety and preservation policies and procedures that all too often get pushed to the bottom of the to do list. Disaster and emergency preparedness are parts of my job that I enjoy and this year’s May focus for me was theft reporting procedures, which made Stealing the Show timely reading. But I wanted the book that this one’s subtitle describes and this isn’t it. (I’m […]

“It’s all a decision. You just decide, and then you do something. You don’t have to know everything, but you do have to begin.”

Managing Expectations: a Memoir in Essays by Minnie Driver

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Unbeknownst to me, I’ve been following along with Minnie Driver’s acting career in real time since her debut in Circle of Friends. Several of her performances have stood out to me over the years and as I have a fondness for memoirs, picking hers up seemed inevitable and going the author read audio route all the better. For almost a week Driver’s voice accompanied me on my various drives (and notably in and out of Philly for work in a day) and it was truly […]



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