Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

So close to five stars.

The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections by Neil Gaiman

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I kind of almost want to give this one five stars. And it was all short stories! I’ve been slowly making my way through Sandman since last year, but this is really the first time I feel like I’ve really gotten what this series was about. It was just great from beginning to end. Each of the nine stories were great in their own way, and they tied together thematically as well, but in that subtle way that sneaks up on you slowly. Normally, there’s […]

I missed the Lumberjanes

Lumberjanes Volume 10 Parents' Day by Leyh , Kat

Lumberjanes Volume 11 Time After Crime by Leyh, Kat

Lumberjanes Volume 12 Jackalope Springs Eternal by Leyh, Kat

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Lumberjanes is the story of five young women at a strange and magical summer camp. April is ambitious, tiny, and ridiculously strong. Riley is the youngest, and sometimes a bit over-enthusiastic. Jo is a level-headed science genius and transgender. Mal is a queer guitar player from a happy home. Molly is queer, from an unhappy home, and has a pet raccoon named Bubbles who she wears as a hat. Together they are the Roanoke bunk at Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s Camp for Hardcore […]

The fridged women speak.

The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente

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The Refrigerator Monologues is a feminist response to the way women are treated in superhero comics. It’s a short read, a novella really, at only 147 pages, but it packs a punch. Riffing on both the stage play The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, and Gail Simone’s website Women in Refrigerators (which coined the term “fridging” for any female character who dies in order to further the plotline or character arc of a man), Valente’s book features six women whose lives were reduced to subplots […]

This should really be titled The Secret History of Wonder Woman’s Creators.

The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore

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This wasn’t what I was expecting, but it was pretty good all the same. I think this three star rating is due to two things: 1) I was expecting more of a history of Wonder Woman the character with some stuff about her creator(s) thrown in as well, and what I got was a history of her creator(s) in full, along with a healthy side order of what was actually going on in history at the time, with an emphasis on the history of feminism, […]

Triple Cannonballing with The Sandman.

The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman

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Most people seem to like this one more than I did, but I still liked it. I didn’t think I was going to have much to say about it because it just didn’t really vibrate on my level, plus—and I can’t believe more people haven’t brought this up in their reviews—it really hasn’t aged well. But then I wrote quite a bit. This book focuses on Barbie, a side character (formerly married to Ken, natch) who last showed up in The Doll’s House. She and the […]

My favorite of the series so far.

The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman

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My favorite since the first one. It’s been over thirty years since this was published, and it still managed to do things that surprised me. Morpheus, or Dream the Endless, has been informed that consigning his human lover Nada to hell for 10,000 years for the crime of rejecting him and wounding his pride was a not great thing to do, so he sets out to make things as right as he can, which means once again descending into hell and facing Lucifer. He makes […]



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