Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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I could’ve gone a lifetime of tomorrows without reading this book…

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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What better way to kickstart 2023 than to read what every outlet, including Book of the Month (which I received the book from), named as their book of the year? Well, having now read it, I wish I’d instead continued to put it off until tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. The first half of the book was passable enough, I thought, but that the most positivity I could manage then, and I feel misguided being even that positive in hindsight. Yesterday, I woke up sick […]

Catch-Up 22

Chainsaw Man Vol. 13 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll

My Rosebud Boy by Rainbow Rowell

She-Hulk #7 by Rainbow Rowell

Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell

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I’m late to the game with these reviews, plus I missed the best and worst of the year talks, but I don’t wanna falsely claim these as 2023 reads next year, so here goes. I’ve done very little in the way of reading these last two months of the year, pretty much keeping to my usual comfort picks, as I’m sure you can tell. Getting married, working 50 hours a week for a little while, and having two major holidays, will do that to you, […]

My, my, that was messy…

I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman

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WARNING: SPOILERS FOLLOW! Back when I first saw this on the shelf of Target, I didn’t realize it was actually one of Oseman’s older books, just released for the first time in the US. I almost bought it then, but had to look it up since I didn’t recall her having posted about any new books, and held off for the time being because I knew all too well how low her lows were when she was starting out. It wasn’t long before I was […]

Turning Red Golden

Turning Red by Cynthea Liu

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You know, now that I think about it for a second, this could almost be advertised as the “sanitized” version of Turning Red, which is to say the one minus any period talk. There’s still Mei disregarding her parent’s wishes, which the haters piled on about, but no (gasp) tampons, or even (the horror) snippets of Mei and her friends acting and talking like garden variety teenagers. I’m sure they’d still find plenty to hate here, because we all know the things I listed aren’t the real […]

I’ll read/watch anything with Heartstopper in the title…

The Heartstopper Yearbook by Alice Oseman

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I’m starved for more Heartstopper content while I wait for the next season of the show to wrap up filming and production, and for the final volume of the comics to come out, so I’m at the point where I’ll take any morsels I can get. Enter The Heartstopper Yearbook. It’s part art book, part reflection on the series, part other miscellany. However, it’s 100% adorable, including the book itself, with its gold-print leaves on the cover. Whether you like her books or not, I think you have […]

To the trash you go…

Assassination Classroom, Volume 2 by Yusei Matsuji

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Alrighty, add this to my list of manga that I’m throwing in the dustbin. The premise was interesting enough: an alien promises to end the world in a set amount of time, but will teach the reject class (and let them attempt to assassinate him) in the meantime. However, what the Reese’s Pieces fuck was this volume!? First, you have the new character, an adult woman, who is just sex on legs, to the point that she kisses one of the high school boys. Then you […]



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