Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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It’s cute! It’s spooky! It’s… kooky!

Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen

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CBR14Bingo – White Elephant: OK, this is stretching this one, but this is the perfect sort of thing to actually use in a white elephant gift exchange. It’s weird enough to make people go ??? but also interesting and cute enough to make them go !!! Sarah Andersen brings her signature humor and charm to spooky season. I’ve been a pretty big fan of her other work, and I’m a pretty big fan of crytpids (please check out some of my other questionable reading choices), […]

“You can’t protect what’s precious to you through violence” … unless there’s a bargain sale involved

The Way of the Househusband vol. 1 by Kousuke Oono

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CBR14Bingo – Funky: I can’t think of much funkier than a former yakuza gangster applying the same energy to bargain hunting as offing people. And, it’s my first BINGO! I’d heard wonderful things about this manga, so when I saw it was finally available at my library, well, I jumped on it. It’s a hilarious collection of loosely connected slice-of-life stories from a yakuza who’s traded turf battles for bargain sales. Tatsu has retired from being the infamous “Immortal Dragon” of the yakuza underworld to become […]

A graphic novel memoir about a ten growing up between cultures

It Won't Always Be Like This by Malaka Gharib

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I’m not a big fan of reading memoirs – unless they’re graphic novels. There’s something about the combination of words and illustrations that makes me feel like I’m getting a better insight into the person. So when I saw this coming-of-age memoir by an Filipina-Egyptian-American woman, I was intensely curious about how she balanced all those identities. I didn’t realize when I picked this up but it’s the second in the series. It worked just fine as a standalone, though. The book starts with Malaka at […]

“We are writing to each other. On paper. Because paper is kind of my thing.”

Looks Good on Paper by Kilby Blades

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CBR14Bingo – Holiday: Zuri takes a six week vacation to Europe to explore various stationary stores. I was in the mood for a quick cute rom-com, and this book certainly delivered. A penpal romance with a dash of travel and some craftiness, this book hit a lot of the right notes for me. “We are writing to each other. On paper. Because paper is kind of my thing.” Zuri may be underpaid and unrecognized at her job – customer service for an online dating app called […]

Cute, queer and geeky small town romance

Winning Move by Skye Kilaen

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I gobble up everything by Skye Kilaen, so when I saw she was writing the first book in a multi-author series set in a queer small town? Oh heck yes. And it’s exactly what I wanted – an adorably geeky and queer small town romance. Gina has a comfortable life in Clover Hill. She splits her time between working at the front desks of the vet clinic and her uncle’s garage, she plays board games at the local library, and she visits her Great Aunt […]

“I am a pawn in other peoples’ power games”

Court of the Vampire Queen by Katee Robert

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CBR14Bingo: Hot – The spice is very high with this one, if also very bloody. I had these on my TBR for a while when they were previously self-published as the Bloodline Vampires novella series. So of course I jumped at the chance to read an ARC of the books released in one volume. This is pure Katee Robert, but it reminds me more of her Touch of Taboo series than her newer Dark Olympus books. Mina is a dhampir (half-vampire, half-human) but unlike her […]



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