Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Decent School Ghost Story continued

Toilet-bound Hanako-kun vol.10 by Aidalro

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Imagine a good twin – evil twin story where the good twin may not be all that good; then add in the scenario of being trapped in a fantasy world where if you stay too long you lose your memories and it turns out that not everyone there is entirely fictional, including one or both of the twins. And if you want to escape you have to murder someone you don’t think deserves it, but there’s a mysterious “voice” Writing messages suggesting there’s another way […]

Hello from the other side

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon

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Two days ago, Diana Gabaldon released Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, the long awaited ninth installment of her popular Outlander series. It’s been more than seven years since the last installment. So, I have been reading and ruminating for approximately 48 hours as I sit down to write this review. I’ve got a good many thoughts about this novel – it is more than 950 pages long on my Kindle, after all – but I’m not sure how many of them I […]

Fun new graphic novel series

Wingbearer by Marjorie M. Liu

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Wingbearer by Marjorie M. Liu is a diverse story that emphasizes friendship, loyalty, conservation, spirituality, family, and the past with how it shapes the present and ultimately the future. These characters are sweet, naive, sassy, brassy and full of themselves. There is magic, adventure, and a journey that is as familiar as it is fresh. The story is cozy as we know these people from other stories, but there are fresh eyes, experiences, and influences. The 10 to 14 range would be the best suited as […]

If you have background these graphic novels rock

Suki, Alone (Avatar: The Last Airbender) by Faith Erin Hicks

Ms. Marvel: Stretched Thing (Original Graphic Novel) by Nadia Shammas

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Recently I picked up two graphic novels that were fun, but not necessarily making me hoot and holler. Oh, there were a few chuckles, but overall, just enjoyment. I started with Suki, Alone (Avatar: The Last Airbender) by the awesome Faith Erin Hicks and Peter Wartman. If you know the series that features the Kyoshi Warrior, Suki, then you know that she was imprisoned for some time and this graphic novel explores that time as it was not explored in the show. As a story […]

Burn it all down, and start over. Again.

Extasia by Claire Legrand

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A young girl has finally been anointed to sainthood. Though she is young, a prepubescent teenager, it has been her life’s goal to be anointed. She also wants sainthood to atone for the sins of her mother. Amity is her new name. Saint Amity. She is one of four saints in a small town called Haven. It’s the only town left in the world after wars and famine, all caused by women, destroyed the world. Only the four saints can keep Haven safe from the […]

A Plague of Monsters and maybe Magic

The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giebrecht

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I have to honest and admit that I did not read this  thoroughly, more like slow skimmed. The Monster of Elendhaven was described as “dark”, “humorous”, “rotten with magic”; these descriptors match some things I’ve read and enjoyed. This novella is most definitely more the ‘dark’, as in horror. The setting is Elendhaven, somewhere around the North Pole, where some sort of seriously nasty plague caused by a magic eruption of some sort that either kills people or essentially mutates the survivors. Being a sorcerer […]



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