Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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New Old Food

New Native Kitchen by Chef Freddie Bitsoie, James O. Fraioli

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Bingo 15: Bird There’s really only two birds in New Native Kitchen, and it’s the three places duck gets mentioned and a handful of chicken recipes. I would also say that the phrase “birds of a feather” applies here because it is intended to introduce people to Indigenous cultures from across the country (sort of ironic but not in a bad way), and there’s a lot of emphasis on the importance of community, which given that this is a cookbook, is not that surprising. Although […]

A More Interesting Way to Do Hogwarts

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments by T. L. Huchu

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Bingo 14: Snake Quick notice: because Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments is new acquisition at my local library, it had a shorter checkout period with no renewal so I had to give it back before getting to write about it; I may not be as totally sure of certain details as a result. The snake theme actually works on more than one level here because there is indeed a hospital and mysterious affliction that is affecting school boys in the magical community, and Ropa gets […]

The Beginning of the End Hopefully Doesn’t Go On For Too Long

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes vol. 12 by Hideyuki Furuhashi, Betten Court, Kohei Horikoshi

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Bingo 13: Series My Hero Academia is a pretty popular well-known manga series; surprisingly it’s main manga spin-off is also quite popular; usually the spin-off is only kinda popular or short-lived. My Hero Academia: Vigilantes is kind of a prequel and it’s recently concluded, although I’m not quite to that point myself. Volume 12 definitely seems like it’s part of a final arc though, especially since a good chunk of it is what I suspect is meant to be revealing backstory. I’m guessing that giving […]

Spookiness and Secrets Coming to Light, Maybe

Toilet-bound Hanako-kun, vols. 13-14. by Aidalro

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I’m going part literal and part metaphorical with the shadows with vols. 13-14 of Toilet-bound Hanako-kun. On the literal side, a good chunk of the story in these two parts of the series take place in the spirit world which seems like a shadowy place, and the spirits who can cross into the real world are almost always popping up out of a shadow. This is also the part of the story where two shadows (ie mysteries) that have been going on for a while […]

Different Scandals in Different Places

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

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Bingo 11: Scandal A Strange and Stubborn Endurance opens with a scandal of sorts (or at least the inciting incident that gets the plot going does), and there’s a fear and use of gossip that gets brought up and/or used off and on throughout the story. There is a content warning at the beginning about the scandal which involves on-page sexual violence as well as self-harm and suicidal ideation; side note, I’m a little surprised that the one murder that does succeed before the final […]

Who-dunnit and who are these people?

The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison

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Bingo 10: Questions One main question of the Thara Celehar novellas is “who dunnit?’ as well as ‘why’, and that’s true of The Grief of Stones too, but also, there’s a bit of a twist about 2/3 of the way through which also adds “what will {x} do now?” Being a Witness for the Dead, someone who can see the final thoughts or images of someone who has died, it makes sense that Celehar would be involved in solving murders, as he is here, but […]



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