Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Goth love

Fangs by Sarah Andersen

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Fangs by Sarah Andersen chronicles a supernatural love story between Elsie the vampire and Jimmy the werewolf. The graphic novel is a series of comic vignettes with a loose linear progression of their relationship. They awkwardly meet and discover they both have “fangs” in common. This was both funny and sweet. They may be monsters, but they’re super relatable. Eventually, they move in together and learn each other’s unique quirks. She can’t be in direct sunlight, a natural goth. He turns into a wolf when […]

Down the future rabbit hole

Lost in the Future Vol 1: The Storm by Damian

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Lost in the Future by Damian was beautifully illustrated by Àlex Fuentes. I discovered this at Forbidden Planet during a London trip this year. I unintentionally plan book crawls, sometimes with too ambitious goals, whenever I travel. I had about 5 minutes until they closed to pick something, and this is what I chose. During a field trip, a group of kids wanders off and falls down a hole. It’s giving Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole meets Adventure Time vibes. They discover it’s a portal and […]

Bears and Burnout

Angelica and the Bear Prince by Trung Le Nguyen

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Angelica is an overachiever. She can’t help herself. She loves to be counted as someone people can rely on. But she’s not relying on her body failing her, and after burnout leaves her too numb to do much else besides lie in bed, she gets into therapy and decides to choose one project to focus on instead of ALL the projects! She lands an internship at a local theatre which is celebrating its anniversary by mounting its very first show, an adaptation of East of the […]

Purple for the Spooky Science

The Glass Scientists vol. 1 by S. H. Cotucino

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Bingo 20: Purple When the public library has a summer reading program that adults can do, and also get prizes, it’s a good time. The past few years, the top reading level prize (defined by minutes read) is you get to take home a new book from a seemingly random selection the library ahs gotten. This year I went with The Glass Scientists volume 1. It was on the YA list, but I tend to keep an eye out for things I can use in […]

‘Tis the Season

Batman The Long Halloween: the Prequel Haunted Knight by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale

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I happened to see this at our local library as part of a Halloween Readings display. A long long time ago, I read a whole lotta Batman, including Loeb’s Hush, which I recall thinking was very good. Hush was drawn by the brilliant Jim Lee, which made the reading all the more interesting. There was a time when I read DC graphic novels regularly, but I got kind of tired of it and found other reading more to my liking. While this “prequel” to The […]

“Baba will realize what he’s missing, and he’ll come home so we can be a normal, happy family again.”

How To Draw A Secret by Cindy Chang

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Well, my New Year’s resolution to keep up with my book reviews has not gone amazingly the first half of the year, but there’s always time to refocus so I’m trying to get back into it. Fortunately this summer of grad school classes hasn’t been as overwhelming as last year, so I have been able to do some reading for fun and have some books to review. I even have had the time to go to the local bookstore twice, which is pretty astonishing versus […]



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