Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

As the Romans do

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

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I love historical fiction, it’s my thing and this often gets touted as the first “modern” historical novel, so I of course was very curious. Started this last year in English, but intelligently put the book in the storage room with the rest of my on-hold life, found it in one of the free book cases in German though and finished it. Except, as I’ve learned while looking for pics for this review, I most likely read the condensed German translation that includes Claudius The […]

The East German Harry Potter for goth kids

Krabat by Otfried Preußler

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One of my favourite books in middle school, reread it here in my exile at my mum’s place and while it clearly is for children (well..), it’s as deliciously dark as I remember. In the early 18th century, Krabat, a 14-year old Wendish beggar boy (check out what that people is, you’re in for a cool history/ethnology lesson) finds himself called to a lonely mill in the middle of the woods. He starts an exhausting apprenticeship, where the mysterious miller doesn’t just teach him and […]

Soothe Yourself

Dubliners by James Joyce

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I’ve always liked Dubliners unironically, even after I was informed that it apparently is something people hated to read in school (maybe that was just my friends, please enlighten me on this). A separate print of The Dead was one of the first books I got from the adult section at my local library, when I was still very much a child and I remember being blown away by the beauty of it. Two or three years ago I finally read the whole book and […]

4, 4 for 4

Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life As A Weapon by Matt Fraction

Death Comes As The End by Agatha Christie

Country Dark by Chris Offutt

Heaven's A Lie by Wallace Stroby

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Over the weekend and into the early part of this week, I read four books. Each one merited four stars and all were good in their own unique way…   Hawkeye, Vol 1: My Life as a Weapon It’s good. I guess. No really, it’s good. All good. It’s fine. Just…it’s kind of why I don’t read a lot of comics: simplistic hero narratives with twee dialogue. I know this is what everyone wants thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I’m not sure it’s what […]

Frightville Population a few supernatural stories

Frightville V01 Don’t Let the Doll In by Mike Ford

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Once upon a time I picked up this semi-spooky looking book called Frightville V01 Don’t Let the Doll In by Mike Ford. Several years later I picked it up off my foot as it was among the books that had just fallen on said foot. Thankfully, the books were lightweight and thin. After reading, I concluded this book is more of a 2.5 (possible 3 if I factor in nostalgia factors) than an actual 2. The reason for the lower score, is that this is […]



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