Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Even a Hot Topic clerk will smirk at these

Oh My Goth: Jokes for When You Feel Dead Inside by Andrew Shaffer

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Ah, the creator Andrew Shaffer! The person I love to hate and hate to love! Yet, he keeps (pounding fists on my desk) DRAGS ME BACK! Time and time again! I am thinking, “OH Master has given Dobby clothes!” But oh no! Dobby has been fooled and I am right back reading another mad capped work by them! Okay, seriously, I really did not realize how prolific Shaffer is. Oh My Goth: Jokes for When You Feel Dead Inside is a small collection (read online […]

Three hits and a miss for Humor and Mayhem

Hope It All Works Out!: A Poorly Drawn Lines Collection by Reza Farazmand

Mothman's Merry Cryptid Christmas (Cryptid Holiday Classics) by Andrew Shaffer

Mothman's Happy Cryptid Halloween (Cryptid Holiday Classics) by Andrew Shaffer

The Secret Pet (Bad Books for Bad Kids) by Andrew Shaffer

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I was reading a few online reader copies the other day. They were all amusing, each in their own way (or not as you’ll see below). They all have a future publication date, except one. And the first is not like the others since there are two authors/creators.  Hope It All Works Out!: A Poorly Drawn Lines Collection by Reza Farazmand is what it is! If you know/like Poorly Drawn Lines the comic, you can get your fix with all of these funny, thoughtful and […]

Nessie, Cannabis, and Maple Syrup time with Bernie Sanders

Feel The Bern by Andrew Shaffer

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Feel the Bern is basically mindless entertainment which is too bad in a way since it has a lot of potential. Once Joe Biden actually ran for and won the Presidency, I’m guessing the author didn’t see it practical to continue to Obama-Biden murder mysteries, so Bernie Sanders must have been the back up or the next best option. The murder mystery takes place when a not super popular community member is found dead, seemingly having drowned in a vat of the town’s main export, […]

“You want to know if they’re the mittens I wore to Biden’s inauguration. That’s all anyone wants to talk about these days: mittens, mittens, mittens.”

Feel the Bern by Andrew Shaffer

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CBR15 Passport Challenge: Books from different countries #1 When Crash, a new intern working for Bernie Sanders, accompanies her boss up to a small-town festival in Vermont, the last thing she expects is to discover a dead body – or that Bernie will insist on trying to solve the mystery. A few years ago I read Hope Never Dies, a comic mystery where Obama and Biden team up in the post-2016 election season to uncover the truth behind an Amtrak conductor’s death. Now Shaffer has […]

Obama and Biden—but they fight crime.

Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer

Hope Rides Again by Andrew Shaffer

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“Barack once told me that, at the end of the day, every one of us is just part of a long-running story. All we can do is try to get our paragraph right.” Joe Biden is lamenting the end of his bromance with former President Obama, the man himself shows up at his house, lurking in the shadows to inform him his address was found in the pocket of a body hit by an Amtrak train. With an unrelenting need for justice, Amtrak Joe sets […]

Hopefully Third Time’s The Charm ‘Cause Two Not So Much

Hope Rides Again by Andrew Shaffer

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Maybe it’s the fact that Joe Biden is now actually running as a candidate for President, but Hope Rides Again wasn’t quite as entertaining as the first Obama-Biden mystery Hope Never Dies. I was so excited when Michelle makes an appearance but there’s so little of her, and she has virtually no personality here. Such a lost opportunity there. Obama gets a little more personality, but Biden stays the same as the first book, and Steve has even less personality. That was kind of sad […]



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