Cannonball Read 18

Adaptations are a net good

The Handmaid's Tale by Renee Hault, Margaret Atwood

August 10, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

I forget when, but I remember I tried to read Atwood's original book and couldn't get into it. Since then, I've watched an episode of the show and seen how it's reflecting our day-to-day lives more and more, so I thought the graphic novel adaptation would be a perfect avenue for a second attempt. I … [Read more]

Travis_J_Smith's CBR14 Review No:58 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Margaret Atwood, Renee Hault, Renee Hault, Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale ·

Dead on arrival

Death Note: Short Stories by Tsugumi Ohba

August 10, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

Boy, I'm glad I was able to find this at the library and spared myself from feeling the need to buy the copy I found at Target. As a lover of Death Note, this felt like a no brainer. Everything to come out of Japan has been at least decent, including the live-action movies. It's only been America … [Read more]

Travis_J_Smith's CBR14 Review No:57 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: death note, Tsugumi Ohba ·

Ah, memories…

The Big Jump: The Tao of Travis Pastrana by Travis Pastrana, Alyssa Roenick

August 10, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

This brought me back to the days of elementary school Scholastic book fairs. My parents never gave me much to shop with at those, but what few books I did manage to accumulate from them tended to be books like this. I remember an unofficial biography of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, some super-slim … [Read more]

Travis_J_Smith's CBR14 Review No:56 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Alyssa Roenick, Travis Pastrana, Travis Pastrana, Alyssa Roenick ·

I think I’ll leave it to Wes Tank for now…

Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss

August 10, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

Fox in Socks is one Dr. Seuss book that I somehow had avoided until I saw Wes Tank somehow turn this notoriously tongue-twisting book into a multi-minute rap. His Dr. Seuss raps were what reinvigorated my love for the … [Read more]

Travis_J_Smith's CBR14 Review No:55 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: Dr. Seuss, Fox in Socks ·

A Childhood: Biography of a Place

A Childhood by Harry Crews

August 10, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I went back and looked at when this was originally published, which was 1978. I was wondering about this because of one, how this situates within Harry Crews's writing career and two, how it situates within the broader publishing world of a certain kind of Southern US literature. The memoir is … [Read more]

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:457 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Harry Crews ·

Dark Tales, wooo-ooo

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

August 10, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This collection of short fiction by Shirley Jackson is not all previously uncollected or unpublished, but if you have a copy of The Lottery and Other Stories, there are no repeats for this one. About a third of these stories are found in the Library of America collection though. The stories here are … [Read more]

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:456 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Shirley Jackson ·

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