Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

To tell their stories

Home Is a Door We Carry by Constantin Satüpo

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Home Is a Door We Carry is a hard book to read, and not just because of the subject. There was a flowing issue for me. Things are simple and at times almost too simple for my personal tastes. Maybe different art could have enhanced my personal journey, but also I know that this is what author Constantin Satuppo needs to tell his story. Satupo is trying to give you the emotions of refugees (the voices of the children seen in the images) having to […]

Origin story for human civilization

The Children of the Sun: An Inca Legend by Micaela Chirif

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The Children of the Sun: An Inca Legend is based on the original mythology of the Incan people. Author Micaela Chirif created this book so it is able to be adapted to allow multiple ages to relate to it, but it does lean towards an older reader or listener as its audience. It can be intense in the way it talks about the god-like children (who are fully grown) who wander to find the first home (or make the first city)  for the humans. It […]

Big Brother is watching Part Two

1984: The Graphic Novel by George Orwell and Fido Nesti

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When I saw the cover for 1984: The Graphic Novel adapted by Fido Nesti, I thought I would enjoy reading George Orwell’s book this way. I requested it via interlibrary loan. I did mention that there was another one done by  Matyás  Namai,, but I would prefer Nesti. So, what did I get? Both! I started with Namai’s just because it was due first. After reading it, I was not impressed by the style. It was too busy. Yet, it was an experience I was […]

Big Brother is watching Part One

George Orwell's 1984: The Graphic Novel by George Orwell and Matyas Namai

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Even though I was an English major in college, my contemporary classic reading was minimal. Going to a small school meant I repeated professors and they repeated the authors and texts they liked, therefore I did not always get the most expansive exposure to a variety of classics. Because of this 1984 missed my radar. When I found free time for reading, the classics never appealed to me for two reasons. The first, the language was not contemporary and therefore was lofty. It was not […]

“The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue…”- Bruno Bettelheim

F*cked Up Fairy Tales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings, and Other Timeless Classics by Liz Gotauco

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This book goes to show fairy tales are timeless; the same crap you’re going through now in real life happened to people whose stories (most of the time) ended in “Happily Ever After.” It was highly enjoyable; I appreciated that Gotauco pulled out a list of stories that (for the most part) I had never read or heard of before, as well as one or two I’ve read different iterations of. Interesting (and showing the international collectedness she talks about) how many of the stories […]

“If a book is well-written, I always find it too short”

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

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4.5 stars CBR17 Bingo: Black (a book with a black cover) I had completely forgotten that I read and reviewed this book back in 2016. My original review can be found here. My plot summary of the more than 200-year-old novel can be found in my previous review. Nevertheless, my reading experience this time around was different enough from earlier times that I wanted to write about some of my thoughts and observations, not to mention some of the points of discussion that came up during my […]



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