Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Just like never meet your heroes, don’t revisit a childhood favorites unless you are ready for an eye-opener

The Smurfs and the Bratty Kid by Peyo

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I had little knowledge of the Smurfs history outside of them being from Belgium, they were “three apples high” and blue. I knew the cartoon of the 1980s, but at the time unaware of its comic/graphic novel background. This collection, The Smurfs Tales #1: The Smurfs and the Bratty Kid by Peyo tells a little of the behind the story (in afterwards that was previously used as an introduction in other collections) but is mostly separate comics. And it starts from where the company producing […]

A Lady, the last Airbender and the best Earthbender ever go to a picnic

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Rift (Avatar: The Last Airbender, #3) by Gene Luen Yang

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Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Rift (Avatar: The Last Airbender, #3) is a collection of three previously released individual books collected into one book. Gene Luen Yang and others, (such as Gurihiru and Michael Heisler) created a book that has a few surface purposes and a few deeper ones, like all Avatar stories tend to have. I feel that the first purpose of the book was to have a “next season” after Team Avatar stopped the Fire Nation. As the books came out solo, […]

When June comes, this will be a great beach read

The Loud House Summer Special by The Loud House Creative Team

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I am giving The Loud House Summer Special a 4 but more of a 3.5 for me. I am not a Nickelodeon kid. I am not a fan of that kind of humor usually. And while I do not think I could watch the show these comics come from, I do think that the kid who likes humor and plain goofiness will be excited to read. Several mini comics create this book about The Loud Family and their friends, neighbors, and pets. The Loud House […]

Our Gal Harley is at it again.

DC Super Hero Girls V05: Out of the Bottle Graphic Novel. by Shea Fontana

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I was looking for something fun, light, and easy to read. And though I noticed awhile back that the last two times I took out books from the library I ended up in the ER, I decided to take a chance. I picked out five titles (with a sixth in case one was not available) and ended up with four. Good average and considering the one I am reading; I probably will not be getting through them all too soon. Therefore, I picked up first  […]

Bend this.

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Toph Beifong’s Metalbending by Faith Erin Hicks

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I admit it, Toph in the Avatar the Last Airbender series was never my favorite character. I appreciated her and sometimes even her “Devil-may-care” attitude, but her humor (she said it as it is about a good toenail picking) was usually spot on. But I do not think she and I would have been “real life” friends. Therefore, when I saw that she was getting her own book, I was not sure I wanted to read it. However, I am up for almost anything ALA […]

The Disney Characters in the image have nothing to do with the book, I was bored.

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Katara and the Pirates’ Silver by Faith Erin Hicks

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All you need to know is that Avatar: The Last Airbender: Katara and the Pirates’ Silver is about Katara and pirates. And it is created by Faith Erin Hicks, Peter Wartman and Adele Matera. But if you need more, our Avatar and his friends Sokka and Toph have a side story, that deals with a Fire Nation/Fire Bender Solider. This man, of course, believes the lies the nation has created about the Air Benders. And Ang takes it upon himself to try and change his […]



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