Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I was kind of lost, too

Superman: Lost by Christopher Priest

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This was another Kareem Abdul-Jabbar pick and while I liked it, I did not find it as compelling as Famous Last Words. Superman: Lost is a graphic novel that involves time travel, PTSD, despair and hope. It is a commentary on our current political climate but also a reflection on our responsibility toward others and the duty to help those in danger, even when our help is unwanted. The story opens with Superman and the members of the Justice League going on a mission. Clark […]

A Fantasy That Hits Close to Home

The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis

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You may recognize Caitlin Rozakis as the author of Dreadful, which I had such a good time with last year. While this upcoming new release isn’t as overtly funny, it does still bring the humor and is relatively lighthearted, while being more emotionally resonant and grounded in reality. It’s told from the third person POV of Vivian, who moves with her husband Daniel and 5-year-old daughter Aria to a hidden magical town after Aria is turned by a werewolf. Prior to this, the family was “mundane” […]

Quest for courage

Hupo and the Wonder Thief by Billy Partridge

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I enjoyed the book Hupo and the Wonder Thief by Billy Partridge. There is something about this dog-like critter (they say they are a dog-rabbit combo) and his quirky personality. Now, to boil it down, he is a lot. And I mean a lot. He might be physically smaller in size, but there is a big amount of wonder that fills him. He loves learning, exploring, being himself and sharing that with others. However, the city he lives in is not the most open to […]

My comfort read

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Season 10, Vol. 2 by Jeremy Whitley

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As a reader, especially one that specializes in children’s and young adult reads, I like to think I mix my genres up, or at least my subjects. I know I have been on a graphic novel kick for several years now, but they come in all shapes and sizes and subjects so I can find almost anything I am in the mood for. And ages ago I found a My Little Pony (contemporary) collection of several stories. It was My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic […]

“There is no safety. There is no end…the dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.”

The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin

Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin

Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Typically when I read a book series, I try to break things up by alternating with books from outside of the series. I’ve found that if I read too many books from one author in a row, I get burned out and have to take a break from that author for a while. However, in Ursula K. LeGuin’s Earthsea Cycle, I may have found the exception to that rule. I read the first two books, A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan a few years […]

To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that.”

The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

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I love when a trilogy is a banger from start to finish. Exiled at the end of the last book, Jude is out for either self-pitying or revenge, mostly self-pitying. Running errands for a local Fae in Maine, riding a dinky bike squatting in the spare room of her older half-sister’s ex-girlfriend’s apartment is not the way she thought her reign would go. I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness. Of course that changes when Taryn shows up because […]



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