Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

You don’t want to be treated like family by THIS family

Cry Out Loud by Tara O’Connor

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Tara O’Connor has four authored and illustrated titles to her name, plus several others she is the illustrator of. Cry Out Loud is one of those titles she is the complete creator. I have read three of her works (the fourth is being searched for…). Each one is a little different from the others, yet they all have a similar tone. However, one of the interesting things is that I would say each book is for a different audience. Their memoir Roots, is for the […]

Saving Seprant Guardians, culture and the Earth

The Search for Gluscap (Adventures of the Pugulatmu’j) Volume 2 by Brandon Mitchell, Kielamel Sibal and Veronika Barinova

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The Search for Gluscap (Adventures of the Pugulatmu’j) is volume two in the series. They are both written by Brandon Mitchell, Kielamel Sibal (letterer), and Veronika Barinova (illustrator). This book assumes you have read the first volume (Giju’s Gift), so I do recommend reading it first. But I have not read book one, but I am curious how the characters are introduced as we have a Native girl and a spiritual being that will guide us along who we are already supposed to know the […]

Not that I need it, but I have a subscription to Silver Sprocket comics/books…..

Witch Hazel: Variety Hour by Colton Fox and Beige Blum

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I have a subscription to Silver Sprocket books. I need to pause and/or cancel as I have so many books from them and I just cannot keep up! But I did get a chance to read Witch Hazel: Variety Hour by Colton Fox and Beige Blum. When I opened the package, stickers and a few postcard items fell out. There was a Witch Hazel poster and another book. I was amused at the fact that the book was in a comic book style, but was […]

Spending a little extra time with some characters I love.

Ghosts: The Button House Archives by Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond

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Everyone has their comfort entertainments and one of mine is the television show Ghosts. It started with the BBC version which aired 2019-2023 and I think I’ve watched it at least annually since I discovered it in the early part of COVID lockdowns. Ghosts: The Button House Archives is the kind of series companion book that is fan-service, but in an enjoyable “a fun bit of extra content that deepens some of the jokes and visual gags of the show while sneaking in some additional […]

The other Amazonian princess

Nubia: Too Real by L. L. McKinney

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What do you do when the reader copy you are reading is missing the last 20 pages or so? You holler loudly and say, “Darn you whomever made this reader copy! I need to know what happens in Nubia: Too Real by L. L. McKinney and illustrated by Robyn Smith.” You then say, “Well I guess late September/early October won’t come soon enough!” And then you tell yourself you’ll be first in line to get the finished copy and find out what happens to our […]

Hot priests, holy tattoos, and machine guns

Covenant V01 by LySandra Vuong

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When I saw Covenant advertised I was not sure if I wanted to read it. One, it was a graphic novel and I’ll read almost anything when it comes to those. But two, it was a fantasy and I’m so-so when it comes to that. Three, it was about religion and I am not usually in the mood for that (unless I am). And four, it was LGBTQ, and for the longest time I was not in the mood for a LGBTQ and religion book. […]



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