Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

It’s official: I suck.

On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck by Nick Riggle

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Up until reading Riggle’s book, I viewed each day of a series of choices. I choose whether to go for a run or snooze my alarm, I choose whether to have toast or cereal for breakfast, I choose my (hopefully tasteful) office-attire and whether to wear the impractical pumps or the comfy crocs. That’s a universal experience. But as soon as I interact with another human being, I have not thought about the choices that follow those interactions. I, like most capital-city dwelling sheeple, know […]

All good things must come to an end

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This book is a kind of bittersweet, in that it’s the last one in the main series.  It’s a crazy long four books (well, five if you count the spinoff**) and it truly is the end of a journey.  We’ve seen these characters grow from immature teens to adults who are willing to make tough decisions, and who are tangled in things far beyond them.  The four years (or more) you spend at college change who you are as a person, and we get to […]

Just like Thanksgiving dinner, the sides are the best part!

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Corpies is a spinoff of the Super Powereds books.  It fits between Super Powereds Year 2 and 3 – we hear a little bit about it in Year 3, but not much.  Hershel and Roy’s father, the hero called Titan, has decided to finally get off his ass and return to hero work.  He had previously left the hero business, or the Life, after a sex scandal ruined his reputation.  Not only was Titan caught having sex with someone other than his wife, but it […]

They way this one ended, the next is going to be one hell of a show

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Aw man.  Trying to review this without spoilers is going to be kind of hard.  We’ve entered into junior year, and things are going to be way different now!  At the end of last year, Nick was far too clever for his own good, and now everyone is paying the price, in a way.  We learn about everyone’s eventful summers and we see how it was an important one for each person’s growth. While we tend to focus on our main cast of characters, others […]

It’s time to step up the game

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So our lovable band of misfits is back for another year at Lander University.  Now that they’ve made it past freshman year they have a lot of work to do. One of the things I like is that they are realizing that they are not as powerful as they think they are.  They’re strong supers, sure, but they aren’t the strongest out there, and they still have a lot to learn.  Mary, for one, was seen as almost untouchable, and she gets her ass handed […]

The start of a favorite series by a favorite author

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How to describe this series?  It’s like Sky High meets The Incredibles meets X-Men.  But better and epic and awesome! In this universe, there are normal people, Powereds, and Supers.  Normal people are just that, normal.  Supers have super powers, like telepathy and the ability to turn into solid steel and such.  Powereds are a bit different.  They have super powers, but they can’t control them.  You could imagine how well that would go over in society.  Our story begins with five students who are […]



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