Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Less Than Gentle Nun

The Dawn of Yangchen by F. C. Yee

The Legacy of Yangchen by F. C. Yee

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“Well, that’s too bad,” she said. “Everyone you meet in Bin-Er is in someone else’s pocket. From the moment you appeared, I was trying to figure out whose pocket you were in. Now I finally have the answer.” A fresh slash of a grin spread across her face. “Mine,” Avatar Yangchen declared. “Now you’re in mine.” Been a long week, so once again I’m skipping over the more weighty books in my rotation in order to indulge in the Avatar-verse.  The Kyoshi books were a great way […]

A TV Tie-in that Works

The Rise of Kyoshi by F. C. Yee

The Shadow of Kyoshi by F. C. Yee

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The Avatar series is one of my favorite animated series of all time. If you doubt me, take a good look at my blog ‘avatar’, which I’ve had since I first signed up for Cannonball Read; maybe a bit familiar, even if a little bit cropped? So, of course, I’m a little excited to hear there will be a new installment to the series soon; pity it’s still quite a while away. And while I’ve tried the comics/graphic novels, they’re little less mature than I […]

I Heard the Wisdom of Uncle

The Bounty Hunter and the Tea Brewer by Faith Erin Hicks

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If you like(d) Avatar the Last Airbender the television series (not that “movie we don’t name” or the blue people), you might want their story to continue since there are only so many times you can rewatch the Avatar and his friends save the world. And you can do that with the graphic novels that various authors, illustrators and creators have made. You can pick up where our gang of benders and friends left off. Some will allow you to continue their stories, add that […]

The perfect addition to an almost perfect story (Zutarra 4Eva!!)

The Promise (Avatar: the Last Airbender) by Gene Luen Yang

The Search (Avatar: the Last Airbender) by Gene Luen Yang

The Rift (Avatar: the Last Airbender) by Gene Luen Yang

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At the age of 41, I have finally seen Avatar: the Last Airbender, and boy, have I been fangirling out like a tweenager. I am a Zuko girly, a no-arguments Zutarra shipper, I made ATLA my library’s September theme (“Reading is Elemental” was the national theme but ALA went with Pixar… Psshaw), and I immediately dove into the graphic novel series (which I intend to read before continuing the journey in Korra). I was fairly familiar with these books as I have ordered them for […]

A Lady, the last Airbender and the best Earthbender ever go to a picnic

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Rift (Avatar: The Last Airbender, #3) by Gene Luen Yang

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Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Rift (Avatar: The Last Airbender, #3) is a collection of three previously released individual books collected into one book. Gene Luen Yang and others, (such as Gurihiru and Michael Heisler) created a book that has a few surface purposes and a few deeper ones, like all Avatar stories tend to have. I feel that the first purpose of the book was to have a “next season” after Team Avatar stopped the Fire Nation. As the books came out solo, […]

Bend this.

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Toph Beifong’s Metalbending by Faith Erin Hicks

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I admit it, Toph in the Avatar the Last Airbender series was never my favorite character. I appreciated her and sometimes even her “Devil-may-care” attitude, but her humor (she said it as it is about a good toenail picking) was usually spot on. But I do not think she and I would have been “real life” friends. Therefore, when I saw that she was getting her own book, I was not sure I wanted to read it. However, I am up for almost anything ALA […]



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