Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Lust and love

The Song of Aglaia by Anne Simon

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Possibly the most unsettling fairy tale you’ll read all year, The Song of Aglaia is as feminist as it is iconoclastic. Simon’s scritch-scratch textures and kids’-book-gone-awry character designs provide a perfect vehicle for her exploration of the ways lust and — more upsettingly — love destroy our ideals.– “Vulture”      CBR15Passport  Other country (from France) Having had read the Anne Simon trilogy out of order (book three first, now book one The Song of Aglaia) book three makes more sense. In three we see the son […]

The mantle of Moth Keeper

The Moth Keeper by K O' Neill

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CBR15Passport Other Country K O’Neill’s graphic novel The Moth Keeper first and foremost has gorgeous illustrations as you usually find in their works.  And it has a terribly sweet story. However, due to lack of text, sometimes things are not as “fleshed out” as they could be, making much open to interpretation for the reader. Yet, if you pay attention to things that do not seem important at first, and take your time reading (not to mention be comfortable and do not have many distractions) […]

Here Kitty Kitty Tiger

Lost Cat! by Jacqueline K. Rayner

Mister Kitty is Lost! by Greg Pizzoli

Sometimes, a Tiger by Z. B. Asterplume

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Do you like cats? As the saying goes, you should never trust someone who does not like cats. Or is that dogs? No, I’m sure it is cats…. Regardless which (or both) it is, if you like cats, and if you like reading, and if you like picture books these three below titles are books you should investigate reading. Each one is a bit different, but they could work for most people and most ages. First, we have Lost Cat! Jacqueline K. Rayner made a […]

It’s biblical!

Thunderhead: Arc of a Scythe Book 2 by Neal Shusterman

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Thunderhead, the second book in Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe trilogy, is a gripping, exciting novel that sets the stage for major conflict in book 3, which I can’t wait to start. Book one introduced the reader to Shusterman’s futuristic world in which all evils seem to have been eradicated: illness, disease, war, crime, even death have been brought under control. In this world, people who meet unfortunate accidents or try to kill themselves can be revived. One is only truly dead when a scythe […]

Are you my reader?

Catwad Volume 1: It’s Me by Jim Benton

My Little Thief  by Augusten Burroughs

A Pizza My Heart by Stephani Stilwell

The Making of Butterflies by Zora Neale Hurston

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Time for the round-up of books I want to review but cannot do 250 words each for. They range from picture books to graphic novels. And we see old favoirte authors, new ones, and adult auhotrs coming to dark side (afterall, we are kids and have cookies). Sometimes I like Jim Benton, sometimes I do not. And this was a do not. Catwad Volume 1: It’s Me is a collection of (to some, though the line about running hate for Catwad was amusing) humorous stories […]

One two three I gotta read

Don’t Touch that Flower! by Alice Hemming

Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library by Andy Elkerton

Gotta Go! by Frank Viva

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There are rules such as, Don’t Touch that Flower! and Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library. And there should be one, no matter how fun your game is, if you do not listen to your mom you will Gotta Go! later. Or in other words, those are the three picture books I read recently. Starting with Don’t Touch that Flower! I will start with I was not exactly in the mood for the slightly annoying “don’t get it” child personality of Squirrel. Still, this […]



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