Cannonball Read 18

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A Decade of Death and Decisions at Halloween All Together At Once

A Decade of Death and Decisions by Drew Hayes

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I have always enjoyed Drew Hayes’ stuff. It’s usually entertaining and smart, and has a little fun with all the tropes of whatever pop culture/nerd genre might be involved. A Decade of Death and Decisions is most of these things but it’s also a little different. In 2013, Hayes started a narrative game on his website wherein he posted a short chapter of a Halloween story, and then a poll at the end concerning a choice about what should happen next, and based on reader […]

I Took The Road Less Travelled and Boy Did I Regret It

Het Stravinskyspel by Arthur Japin

Maretak by Hilde Veeren

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This Cannonball Read is largely useless: neither of these books have been translated into English and since most of you fine folk don’t speak Dutch, there’s not really any chance for you to read them. Not that there’s much reason you should. Anyway, here’s my foray into Kanonskogel Lezen – the Dutch Edition.  First up is Arthur Japin’s Het Stravinskyspel (The Stravinsky Game). In it, we meet Cody, a boy on the cusp of adulthood. Cody lives in LA and has been moderately successful as […]

The other series that gives you goosebumps

You're Invited to a Creepover V03 Ready for a Scare? The Graphic Novel by P.J. Night

You're Invited to a Creepover V04 The Show Must Go On! the Graphic Novel by P.J. Night

You're Invited to a Creepover V05 There's Something Out There the Graphic Novel by P.J. Night

You're Invited to a Creepover V06 Best Friends Forever the Graphic Nove by P.J. Night

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Time for the other series that will give you more goosebumps! Ready for a Scare? The Graphic Novel Volume 3: You’re Invited to a Creepover by P.J. Night and illustrated by Glass House Graphics is for the Goosebump books lover who also likes graphic novels. Or for the reader who wants something “creepy” but is not ready for something like Five Nights of Freddy or an older read. Things can be a smidgen spooky (after all there are over the computer  seances,  the death of […]

The Right Read at the Right Time, almost

The Black God's Drums by P. Djeli Clark

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Bingo Free Space Yes, I know Bingo technically was supposed to end two days ago, but since this is the extra free space I never ended up using, I’m still going to finish that off. I’ve been struggling to find a novella that I wanted to assign to an intro to lit class this coming spring (for reference, I’m at a regional state school) because I didn’t want to re-use anything too recent and I wanted to avoid something easily findable on the internet (either […]

I don’t know what to say, except that you need to read this book

Scythe by Neal Shushterman

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CBR 16 Bingo – Tech: Set in the future where they have a lot of new and interesting tech. “My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There’s no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.” My brother recommended that I read this book and given that […]

“Actually though, uh…. I do need to use the bathroom after all.” 

Orchard of the Tame by Marlo Meekins

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The title of my review of Orchard of the Tame by Marlo Meekins and Nick Cross is that line from the book because it is funny and a counter to the rest of the book. There are several good one-liners here and there, but overall, the story is dark. Even sometimes physically, as the illustrations are all black with just some white spots. Or this could be because it was an online reader copy (by the time I publish this review, it should be available). […]



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