Cannonball Read 18

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Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell, Faith Erin Hicks

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I was always going to love this book. If there was a book created for me, this would be it. All its missing to make it absolute perfection is a focus on the color purple. Its set in my favorite season, specifically on my personal high holy day (Halloween), featuring an adventure, some unrequited/unacknowledged love, pumpkins, snacks, and a goat on the loose. Seriously, Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks nailed this delightful story of two friends spending their last night at work together before […]

This is Halloween (or at least a Pumpkin Patch)

Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell

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I know of Rainbow Rowell, but do not think I have read them (maybe a short story). I know that if you want a good book you cannot really go wrong with Rowell. But I was not familiar with Faith Erin Hicks (though I will be looking into them). And as a First Second book? Well they really cannot do wrong in my eyes. Therefore, perhaps I expected too much out of this. Yet, I will say, even with the few “holes” for me, I […]

You know, for kids!

Comics Will Break Your Heart by Faith Erin Hicks

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The cover sold me on this one.  Not just the art, which I’m an easy target for, but the fact that it was endorsed by Rainbow Rowell. I think I might buy a Hayes manual for a 1988 Chevy Nova if Rowell gave it a blurb. Here’s the thing though; I kind of forgot that even though young adult books are often enjoyed by (nominal) adults such as myself as well as teens, the majority aren’t written for adults.  There was nothing really wrong with […]

Canadian Goonies

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It’s Goonies cause there’s a weird ghost type thing and a spooky hand and teenagers. But it’s Canadian, because it’s Canadian, and it’s about feelings. This should have really been called Friends with a Boy and a Girl, because that’s actually what happens. This is a short graphic novel about a girl named Maggie who is about to have her first day of high school. Like every other YA (graphic) novel, her dad is the police chief and her mom has run away. She’s got […]



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