Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The artist and her brain

Memento Mori by Tiitu Takalo

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I wanted Memento Mori by Tiitu Takalo (and Crank) to be this year’s Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story by Catherine Pioli, but it did not turn out exactly as hoped.  Still, Memento Mori is amazing and an emotional journey of life, possible death, and living, but maybe I was not as invested in the story as I was during my Pioli reading.  After all, I read hers soon after/while I was dealing with health issues of my own, so I was still pretty […]

Pack on Wheels

Blood City Rollers by V.P. Anderson

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I read Blood City Rollers by V.P. Anderson and illustrated by Tatiana Hill via an online reader copy.  I know that I will not be reading it again when it comes out, or buying a copy as there were several spots that I was not “digging” and felt they were not as fleshed out as they could have been. It might be easy to do roller derby in a graphic novel, but it might not be the easiest subject if you are adding vampires, witches, […]

Bloom and Gloopy: Buddies in dimensions

Skip by Molly Mendoza

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I don’t know if you’re like me, but I can judge a book by its cover. I usually say, “Nope, not for me.” Or, “Yeah baby! Sign me up!” And while I have missed the mark on a few (a yes turned into a no), I am usually on the money with what I will like. Therefore, when I found Skip by Molly Mendoza, I figured out my interest early on. The cover (in the catalog I was looking at) looked like someone had spilled […]

Slices of life

The Color of Always by Brent Fisher and Michele Abounader

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Do you like graphic novels or short stories by queer authors and artists?  Then you need to read The Color of Always if you like one or the other or both.  All the stories deal with the queer experience. Some are about coming out, some about finding love, some about losing love. There are stories about families and friends.  There is even one about an assault, so not everything is rosy and happy. There are pluses and minuses in this community and the editors took […]

Third Time Isn’t Always A Charm

Teen Killers V03 Teen Killers At Large by Lily Sparks

The Fourth Closet: Five Nights at Freddy’s (Five Nights at Freddy’s Graphic Novel #3) by Christopher Hastings.

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I took a two week staycation recently where I was able to read about a dozen books. Some were short, but a few had a little kick to them. Such as Teen Killers At Large V03. The Teen Killers Club series Lily Sparks created a modern day Bonnie and Clyde, with kill switches implanted in the necks of people, hackers, billionaires, rough family dynamics, and a bunch of killers under the age of 18. This novel was probably the weakest of the three only because […]

Lion, the deer, and it’s family

Missing You by Phellip Willian

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When you see a cute cover like Missing You has you might think you are getting one thing. A cute story about….Something cute. If it was going to be “heavier” as the word missing implies,  I assumed maybe it was about a friend who moved away, or a friend/family member who lives a long way off, or even something a bit more serious like a grandparent who passed away but not overly “intense” or “deep” to read about. I did not expect to have Phellip […]



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