Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Family and Monsters

Family Force V: Book One by Matt Braly

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Part Power Rangers, part Transformers, part Voltron and all superheroes and space monsters is how I describe Family Force V: Book One. Matt Braly’s graphic novel (read via an online reader copy, due mid June 2025) will be worth the wait for you or your preteen/teen reader. This coming of age story is one we know (your destiny is forced on you, but you choose the path that takes) is not new, but the way it’s presented is fun, humorous and cute. It is not […]

When Life was bored, Death took a holiday

Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis by Dave Maass, Patrick Lay, Ezra Rose and Richard Bruning

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Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis by Dave Maass, Patrick Lay, Ezra Rose and  Richard Bruning, is a lofty graphic novel undertaking. Over the top. Beautiful and Ugly. It is not an allegory of the Holocaust, but its roots are there. This is a story of how the General Overall  takes with his War. It is fiction, and it is history. It is the past, present and future. Bored, flamboyant Life wants something to happen to stop their boredom. And Death gives it. They are […]

Walk the Wire

Mercy of the Gods by James S.A. Corey

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Mercy of the Gods is James S.A. Corey’s follow-up to The Expanse and the first book in the planned trilogy called The Captive’s War. Since Corey’s The Expanse is my favorite sci-fi book series, I think I was primed to enjoy Mercy of the Gods. And, guess what – I did enjoy Mercy of the Gods. A lot. That being said, Mercy isn’t just more of the same. The Expanse jumped genres quite a bit – some books in the series were Westerns, some were […]

This broke my brain.

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

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Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing. ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice Ships have feelings. ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice Nineteen years, three months, and one week before I found Seivarden in the snow, I was a troop carrier orbiting the planet Shis’urna. ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice One Esk is an ancillary of the sentient ship called Justice of Toren. The ship has human avatars, known as ancillaries, which were acquired via conquest. Justice of […]

Bats and dragons and mysteries

Silverwing: The Graphic Novel by Kenneth Oppel and Christopher Steininger

Winter Turning: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel) by Tui T Sutherland and Mike Holmes

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If you haven’t guessed, I like graphic novels. It wasn’t always that way, but they opened up to me unique experiences. I used to recommend them to my customers and had to overcome the “they are just comic books….” (sneering the whole time). No, they are much more (and besides, what’s wrong with a comic book? Your child is reading, right?) Anyway, I found a new graphic novel series and have almost finished an old one. Both of them are fantasy, but dig deep into […]

Mine is: Damn it Jim…. Indeed.

Damn You, Entropy!: 1,001 of the Greatest Science Fiction Quotes by Guy P. Harrison

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From Dr. Who, to Fahrenheit 451, to The Walking Dead, to The X-files, to Douglas Adams, to Star Wars (1977) plus lots more (and that’s just the first two dozen pages), we find 1,001 of the Greatest Science Fiction Quotes (according to Guy P. Harrison) in Damn You, Entropy!: 1,001 of the Greatest Science Fiction Quotes. From Art to Hope to Humans to War to Intelligence to Quantum Realms, and much much more, there are quotes. To say that there is a lot packed into […]



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