Cannonball Read 18

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Little Fish, Big Pond/Country Mouse-City Mouse

Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year by Ramsey Beyer.

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I enjoyed the graphic novel Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year by Ramsey Beyer. The story was fairly familiar, but at the time it would have been a newer story as I think coming of age and graphic novels were just finding their place in the genre of young adult. The way Beyer made the book is clever and even now would be considered fresh. I am curious to find more works by them. Plus, I have questions I need answered […]

Pounce into the world of Cats

A Cat Is a Cat in Any Life by Ema Tohyama

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One thing I like about working in a bookstore is that there are always ways to get free books and/or books you wouldn’t purchase for yourself, therefore never read. And A Cat Is a Cat in Any Life by Ema Tohyama is one of those types of books. I got it for free and it wouldn’t have picked it up otherwise. Do you like manga, cats and off beat humor? Okay, they are here. I like cats. Enjoy manga. And do not mind off beat […]

Young me likes, old me knows young me was odd

Frostbite: A Graphic Novel by Ian Boothby and Pia Guerra

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Frostbite: A Graphic Novel by Ian Boothby and Pia Guerra is the type of graphic novel that I would have read as a teen. If I had read graphic novels. So, therefore, I should say, if it was a novel, it would have been up my alley. It might surprise you I did read these types of books as a teen as I have never liked horror. However, as an adult I realized that I can do horror if there is a thriller element and […]

Tracks can be followed

Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring by Patrick Horvath and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

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Back in November 2025 I found out that book two in the Beneath the Trees series was having a second volume. I tend not to pre order that far in advance, but I said, Screw it! This gal will have her day…. ah book!   And in July 2026  Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring by Patrick Horvath, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, and a few others, came out. Okay, yes it is good, but I had built up volume one so much and had such […]

Final down the rabbit hole with Laura Perez

Ocultos by Laura Pérez and translator Andrea Rosenberg

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Ocultos by Laura Pérez and translator Andrea Rosenberg Each book that I have read by Perez has been stranger than the one before. Contradictions. Too many wordless pages. Too much text. Not enough details to the illustrations and, yes, not enough. The colors are both the perfect touch and the most distracting piece of the work. Each of the three titles are perfect with their similarities, yet they are so different at the same time. How can it be the same author? This author and […]

Book 2 of Laura Perez

Totem by Laura Pérez and Andrea Rosenberg

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I found Laura Pérez via one of my graphic novels down the rabbit hole searches, and Nocturnos came up. I got a finished copy from the library and said that that was an interesting read, let’s do Totem (translated by Andrea Rosenberg) next. Another library read and another book that is literary and artsy. Both titles have a “lofty” element but not a “talk down” to the reader element. But it is sophisticated, and therefore, it might not be for a casual reader of graphic […]



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