Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Barbarella by Jean-Claude Forest

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Barbarella was one of the first digital comics I bought back in 2014, when I got my first tablet and realized that Google Play also sells books and often has better prices than Amazon available in my region. The only thing I knew about it was that it had inspired a movie starring Jane Fonda that I have never seen. So why did I buy it? Well, I have a bit of an Everest problem when it comes to books AND it was available in […]

There’s no breadcrumb trail to lead you back

Idiotizadas: Un cuento de empoderhadas by Raquel Córcoles (Moderna de Pueblo)

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This was a fun, light read that nevertheless deals with important issues related to what being a woman means today and what is expected of us, by our families, society and also what we expect from ourselves and our friends. The author, Raquel Córcoles, is better known as Moderna de pueblo, the character she created based on herself. This particular book, whose title roughly translates as Stupefied: A Fairy Tale of Empowerment, is the story of how Moderna has tried to unlearn all the toxic […]

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose…

Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by by Ulli Lust, translated by Kim Thompson

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TG: drug use, sexual assault, violence against women, mafia I’m not really sure I know how to review this book, but I am going to try anyway. Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life is a graphic novel memoir that narrates a specific period in the life of its author. In 1984, shortly before her 17th birthday, Ulli Lust, a rebellious punk girl from Vienna, took off on a hitchhiking trip across Italy with her friend Edi with nothing but a […]

I’ll be watching you…

Kentukis by Samanta Schweblin

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More than a conventional novel, Kentukis is a collection of glimpses into people’s lives as they deal with the new must have gadgets that have become a worldwide obsession. These gadgets are known as Kentukis, and what they do is establish a connection between the person who owns the Kentuki (a sort of even creepier Furby) and the person who is the Kentuki, that is, the person who bought a connection to look into the life of the person who owns the Kentuki through the […]

Life is a long quiet river…

La brocante Nakano (The Nakano Thrift Shop) by Hiromi Kawakami (translated by Elisabeth Suetsugu)

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This is the second book by Hiromi Kawakami I have read and even though I don’t remember many details about the first one, it apparently was enjoyable enough that I bought three other books by her… I hope the other two are more to my liking because this one was a struggle. I enjoyed the writing. The story was very slow but that doesn’t bother me as a rule. I just found every single character to be extremely uninteresting. Even the not particularly nice ones. […]

Why are you so obsessed with me?

El fruto prohibido (Fruit of Knowledge) by Liv Strömquist, translated by Alba Pagán

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(published in English as: Fruit of Knowledge: The Vulva vs the Patriarchy) I was talking to a friend about how difficult it can be to find graphic novels written and/or illustrated by women. She mentioned this Swedish author she enjoyed but wasn’t sure if she had been translated. Fortunately, she has been translated and I found this gem on Google Play Books. What an amazing read. El fruto prohibido (literally The Forbidden Fruit) is a cultural history of the vulva, and it’s both hilarious and […]



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