Cannonball Read 18

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The bigger picture of witchcraft and wicca

Witchcraft: A Graphic History: Stories of wise women, healers and magic by Lindsay Squire

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Part fiction and part non-fiction, Witchcraft: A Graphic History: Stories of wise women, healers and magic includes the history of one woman Biddy Early, (perhaps not well-known to today’s audience, but one of Ireland’s most famous witches). It is told as a story of how she helped her village, but still people feared her powers while in-between are parts the history of witch trials, tools of the trade, familiars, types of witches/witchcraft and more. Both historical people and women of mythology come to life as […]

Final down the rabbit hole with Laura Perez

Ocultos by Laura Pérez and translator Andrea Rosenberg

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Ocultos by Laura Pérez and translator Andrea Rosenberg Each book that I have read by Perez has been stranger than the one before. Contradictions. Too many wordless pages. Too much text. Not enough details to the illustrations and, yes, not enough. The colors are both the perfect touch and the most distracting piece of the work. Each of the three titles are perfect with their similarities, yet they are so different at the same time. How can it be the same author? This author and […]

Book 2 of Laura Perez

Totem by Laura Pérez and Andrea Rosenberg

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I found Laura Pérez via one of my graphic novels down the rabbit hole searches, and Nocturnos came up. I got a finished copy from the library and said that that was an interesting read, let’s do Totem (translated by Andrea Rosenberg) next. Another library read and another book that is literary and artsy. Both titles have a “lofty” element but not a “talk down” to the reader element. But it is sophisticated, and therefore, it might not be for a casual reader of graphic […]

Book one of Laura Perez

Nocturnos by Laura Perez and Andrea Rosenberg

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For the book Nocturnos by Laura Perez and translator Andrea Rosenberg, I had to average out my rating. There are points for my gut reaction, points for my love of the art, and there are points for how I think others will feel about it. Therefore, my score is a 3.75. And that is a good representation of things as it is not for everyone, but there’s a lot to unpack so everyone might find something.  It is literary. It is a dream within a […]

Supernatural friendship

Frank the Monster by Mats Strandberg and Sofia Falkenhem

Maud and the Very Eventful Week (The Adventures of Maud the Vampire) by Lisa Anchin

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Short books are the reader’s friend. You get to read and not take a long time doing it. You accomplish something. And honestly, sometimes those “little wins” mean a whole lot. That’s one reason why I like children’s books. Not only are they fun, neat and good stories, they can be ways to entertain yourself when you don’t have a lot of time to spend on something longer. Recently, I needed some quick reads to clear the mind of the serious books I was reading […]

New Haven is for (Ghost) Lovers

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

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Galaxy (Alex) Stern sees dead people. And they see her. And sometimes they can touch her, and it’s as horrible as you can imagine. In fact, the first 20 years of Alex’s life have been pretty horrible. Her father has been MIA her whole life. And her hippie-dippie mother, Mira, is well-meaning but completely ineffective when it comes to keeping Alex safe. Instead, Alex turns to drugs; dropping out of high school and moving in with her child predator of a drug dealer boyfriend. Not […]



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