Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“I wanna see you fall…crazy in love with me.”

Afterglow by Wagimoko Wagase

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Higuchi is a young doctor whose aim is to become a cardiovascular surgeon, but he’s been transferred to a depopulating small port town to work in general internal medicine for a bit due to a traumatic experience he had while performing a surgery. He doesn’t like being out in the sticks and he feels like he’s being punished for messing up, although his supervisor is clearly trying to give him a mental health break and the time to recover from his flashbacks and shaking whenever […]

“American boyfriends seem like a real pain in the ass…”

I Can't Get Through the Night Alone by Yoh Matsumoto

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I Can’t Get Through the Night Alone is pretty paint by numbers BL but I enjoyed the plot contrivance, so it was an easy read and had some interesting ideas floating around in there. It’s 1950 and Seishiro is a former Japanese soldier who had a traumatic time during WWII and is working at a barman in a club. Jim is an American soldier with the occupying forces who spots Seishiro and basically falls immediately in love, then asks him to “date” him, with both men […]

If Vox Machina Was Family Friendly

Imagine Nation #1 The Blood of Kings by Matt Myklusch

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Imagine Nation #1 The Blood of Kings by Matt Myklusch and illustrator Onofrio Orlando  There are ups and downs happening within these pages. Things are both familiar and fresh with the combination of realism and fantasy that captures the reader. Overall, I enjoyed it, but one small bump was that it felt as if this was not the first in a series but maybe book two or three, which makes me wonder if this is a continuation of the novels in the Jack Blank Adventure […]

Just like traditional pairings, only poly…..

Ask Me About Polyamory: The Best of Kimchi Cuddles by Tikva Wolf

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Ask Me About Polyamory: The Best of Kimchi Cuddles by by Tikva Wolf, forward by Sophie Labelle    If one is curious about polyamory but wants something easier than a full on text, then this might be the one you need. You will take away from it what you put into it. My personal take was that some things helped me understand the subject, other things I felt made things even more confusing, sometimes I thought she was preaching to the converted, and some comics […]

“If only we could all take the time to get to know ourselves.”

Spacewalking With You (Volume 2) by Inuhiko Doronoda

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Spacewalking With You is a truly special series that I can’t recommend highly enough! It deals with the friendship between Uno and Kobayashi, who are portrayed as having two different kinds of neurodivergence (Uno being Autistic and Kobayashi seeming to have some sort of ADHD/dyslexia deal going on). In the first volume, Uno is a new transfer student and is immediately clearly different and gets laughed at and made fun of. His autism is never stated explicitly, but he has social issues, gets overstimulated easily by […]

“I don’t want to have any regrets!” — Another great volume from one of my all-time favorites!

Hirayasumi Vol. 7 by Keigo Shinzo

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Hirayasumi is one of my favorite manga and every new volume is a joy! The series is slice of life (with some romance) and follows Hiroto, a 29 year old who works a relaxed job at a fishing spot, his cousin Natsumi who lives with him while she goes to art school, and their friends. Hiroto is a laid back person who used to work as an actor, but gave it up to work a quiet job and take it more easy. Natsumi is wound […]



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