Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Give a girl a warning she’s going to be mind flipped…only I didn’t say flipped

Forevr by Brian Brown

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Recently I have read two books that have given me a gut punch for all the right and wrong reasons. Forevr (yes, that is how it is spelled) by Brian Brown, is one of them.  After reading Brown’s book I said to myself: DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG (but I didn’t say Dang)! What the heck was that? I think I needed to take a dramamine pill before reading. I mean how do you process a thoughtful, dark, a bit sad, a bit too could happen, semi-humours ride through […]

Who ya calling an alien?

Kloud 9: The Star Soldier by AJ O. Mason

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By the time I got to chapter two in Kloud 9: The Star Soldier by AJ O. Mason I decided it reminded me of a much lighter Covenant by Lysandra Vuong (and I mean much much much lighter) and later on it would remind me of Heartstopper by Alice Oseman and Strange Bedfellows by Ariel Slamet Ries (both on the lighter side). Or at least the dynamic between Kal and Cosmo and the protagonists of the other stories are similar. The big difference is that […]

A motley assortment of children’s graphic novels

Blue, Barry, & Pancakes: Mayhem on Wheels by Dan and Jason

Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers by Dav Pilkey (credited as George Beard and Harold Hutchins)

Amulet Book One: The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi

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I haven’t finished any adult books recently, but my kids and I have been flying through the junior graphic novel section of our local library lately, so I thought I’d review the latest books we’ve read. I really like the Blue, Barry, & Pancakes series by Dan and Jason (credited without last names). The main characters are three best friends: a worm named Blue, a frog named Barry, and a rabbit named Pancakes. Blue is quirky and has esoteric interests (like spelunking). Barry is analytical […]

Graphic Novel adaption of a favorite children’s classic

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If you haven’t read Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt – go do it! It’s a classic of children’s literature, and one of those elevated children’s texts that reads well as an adult – but also it’s short and sweet, which busy adults can appreciate. Not to mention the story is about life and death, and how much life is too much life, and why death is sad but necessary. Evergreen topics, if you will. Tuck Everlasting is about Winnie, a ten-year-old member of a rather […]

Contemplation and Slime

Fungus the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs

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Raymond Briggs’s Fungus the Bogeyman is one of my favorite books of all time. I came across it at my grandparents’ house when I was about 10 years old. It is an illustrated book about the daily life of a bogeyman, Fungus, and his family. Along the way, we learn about bogey life, which is simultaneously thoroughly disgusting and charmingly sweet. The book is a day in the life of Fungus. His job, like other bogies, is to travel at night from the bogey life […]

“The Next Right Thing”

Gigs by Mark Mosedale and Si Smith

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Right now, I really dislike Mark Mosedale, Si Smith,Top Shelf Productions, and the person who sent me the reader’s copy of Gigs by Smosedale and illustrated by Smith. I dislike you because you made me feel all the emotions at once. You made me unable to put my reader copy down. You made me want to finish before it comes out mid-June 2026 so I can get it on release day, stand at the front doors and tell customers, “You ain’t leaving until you buy […]



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