Cannonball Read 18

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Success is the goal; teamwork is the game

Strikers: A Graphic Novel by Kiel Phegley and Jacques Khouri

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With the Heated Rivalry craze, hockey romance books are getting a push. However, hockey has always been there. Maybe not as a romance, but it has been there. And one of those books was Strikers: A Graphic Novel by Kiel Phegley and Jacques Khouri (illustrator). Published back in 2023, this graphic novel is a fun story about friendship and teamwork. There is no romance, unless you want to say there is a bromance between the team as a whole. They are the worst team in […]

I Wish That I Could Be Like the Cool Kids

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

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Every adult was a kid at one time, and probably always a kid in some ways. Either in play or wonder or understanding of the world and its dynamics. Yet, somehow, I always forget that kids intuit and navigate the same world we adults do, often with more moral clarity and insight if not vocabulary. S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders is a great reminder of those truths. Not just because it’s such a timeless story of coming of age, moral luck, and choice. But also because […]

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 […]

“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 […]

A physically exhilarating and exhausting experience

My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel  by Chiara Lagani, Mara Cerri, Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante

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My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel  by Chiara Lagani (Adapter), Mara Cerri (Illustrator), Ann Goldstein (Translator), Elena Ferrante (Original author) Every so often I find a book, movie, song, or some form of entertainment that I both love and hate equally at the same time.  All I’m going to say about My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel the story is that it is a personal read that you love or not. I wonder how much it differs from the novel(s) and if more is told […]

If it first you don’t succeed brush yourself off and try again, try again

The Do-Over by Lynn Painter

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My second read of the year comes from the long-standing tradition between my spouse and me: At the end of each year, we jot down five books for the other person to read over the upcoming year. I confess that The Do-Over was from the 2024 list, but in the spirit of the book, I thought I should go ahead and get ‘er read (a do-over!). I enjoyed the book and found it to be good medicine for our toxic times. Emily Hornby is the kind […]



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