Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

There’s Something About Mary

Mary B: A Novel by Katherine J. Chen

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Cbr16bingo fanfic  As I have mentioned in previous reviews, I love Pride and Prejudice. It’s one of my favorite novels of all time. I have read and enjoyed several re-tellings of the novel, such as Jo Baker’s Longbourn, Curtis Sittenfeld’s Eligible, and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I guess those are “fanfics,” but when I think of fanfic, I think of stories like All the Young Dudes, which use a famous novel as a jump off point to imagine life beyond the original […]

Murderous Delight

Murder Your Employer: McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes

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I loved, loved, loved Murder Your Employer McMasters Guide to Homicide. It’s the best book I’ve read all year and so much fun. The premise is genius: the McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts is a well-hidden, secret school that recruits students who have plans to murder a well-deserving target–or delete them, as the school calls it. The book follows three students, particularly focusing on Clive Iverson, whose diary entries are incorporated in the “guidebook” to the school. Two other students are also featured. The […]

Three hits and a miss for Humor and Mayhem

Hope It All Works Out!: A Poorly Drawn Lines Collection by Reza Farazmand

Mothman's Merry Cryptid Christmas (Cryptid Holiday Classics) by Andrew Shaffer

Mothman's Happy Cryptid Halloween (Cryptid Holiday Classics) by Andrew Shaffer

The Secret Pet (Bad Books for Bad Kids) by Andrew Shaffer

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I was reading a few online reader copies the other day. They were all amusing, each in their own way (or not as you’ll see below). They all have a future publication date, except one. And the first is not like the others since there are two authors/creators.  Hope It All Works Out!: A Poorly Drawn Lines Collection by Reza Farazmand is what it is! If you know/like Poorly Drawn Lines the comic, you can get your fix with all of these funny, thoughtful and […]

War! Destruction! Snacks! Dragon style

Wings of Fire Graphic Novel Book One: The Dragonet Prophecy by Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes

Wings of Fire Graphic Novel Book Two: The Lost Heir by Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes

Wings of Fire Graphic Novel Book Three The Hidden Kingdom by Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes

Wings of Fire Graphic Novel Book Four The Dark Secret by Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes

Wings of Fire Graphic Novel Book Five The Brightest Night by Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes

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The journey of the Wings of Fire Graphic Novel series was not a smooth one as I read volumes one and two out of order. Therefore, read the series in order, take your time and try to read as close together as possible as things pick up where we leave off from the previous book and it assumes you know the backstory.  Book One: The Dragonet Prophecy by Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes I have not read the novels this series is adapted from. However, considering […]

If Mr. Rogers was that quirky uncle, LeVar Burton was that cool older cousin

My Friend LeVar by Ezra Edmond

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I saw the title: My Friend LeVar. And I wondered, “Is this the LeVar?” The Mr. LeVar Burton who was one of the influential parts of my reading childhood? And yes, Ezra Edmond’s picture book (due in October 2024 and read via an online reader copy, and illustrated by Jenna Nahyun) was about that LeVar Burton. The story is unusual in the sense that it is not your usual action book. There is a lesson, but not the ones you usually get. The story is […]

I Heard the Wisdom of Uncle

The Bounty Hunter and the Tea Brewer by Faith Erin Hicks

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If you like(d) Avatar the Last Airbender the television series (not that “movie we don’t name” or the blue people), you might want their story to continue since there are only so many times you can rewatch the Avatar and his friends save the world. And you can do that with the graphic novels that various authors, illustrators and creators have made. You can pick up where our gang of benders and friends left off. Some will allow you to continue their stories, add that […]



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