Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Jarrett and the Power Ranger

Sunshine: A Graphic Novel by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

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Sunshine: A Graphic Novel (with the subtitle of How one camp taught me about life, death, and hope) is not only the follow up to Jarrett J. Krosoczka’s Hey, Kiddo: A Graphic Novel, it is a must read! But have tissues ready for the laughs and especially the tears. This time we follow young JJK (Jarrett J. Krosoczka) as he volunteers with five other classmates and two adult chaperones at a camp for children with terminal illness and their family. The main theme of what […]

Diseases shape the course of history

Plague-Busters!: Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases by  Lindsey Fitzharris

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Plague-Busters!: Medicine’s Battles with History’s Deadliest Diseases by Lindsey Fitzharris and Adrian Teal is probably my new favorite nonfiction read of 2023 (I know it is still only late April, but something tells me I won’t be reading too many more nonfictions and if I do, nothing will match up to this).  Due in October 2023, I give this book a 4.5 as I need to see the final artwork. What I had in my reader copy, was mostly black and white, but there were a […]

The Velveteen Rabbit, Unanticipated Puppet Gore, and The Stages of Grief

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

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The thing about Grady Hendrix novels is that I read them without bothering to read the synopses anymore. It is enough for me to see his name on the cover when Quirk Books posts about an upcoming release or I’m on my Netgalley and a new title of his pops up on my available ARCs. To me, he is a known quantity. The books of his I haven’t read are ones that I just haven’t made time for. He is, to me, a guaranteed book […]

Just like Aunt Bea

Zora, the Story Keeper by Ebony Joy Wilkins

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I read a book. I thought about it so I could write a review. And then I wondered, is this something I can do justice to? I mean, there is nothing hard about Zora, the Story Keeper. It is a story about a girl, Zora, and her beloved Aunt Bea. And in the end, after their beautiful times together, where they told stories, and costumes are worn, Aunt Bea passes away, so it is also a book of grief and holding onto the stories Aunt […]

Bitter and sweet

Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars: A Graphic Memoir by Rick Louis

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CBR15Passport New Authors to me Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars: A Graphic Memoir is a bittersweet story of living with a child who has an incurable condition. It is spiritual, realistic, and surreal all at once. Sometimes the tone is a bit on the romantic side, but it is a forgivable offense as this is a love story to the child as much as a memoir of the fathers. I have never been a mother, though an aunt three times (plus various “adopted […]

Elliot had a rough few days

The Witches of Silverlake Volume One by Simon Curtis

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I am not familiar with the author or illustrator of this graphic novel but was familiar with Legendary Comics YA the publisher with the reading of Championess by Kelly Zekas making this my second CBR15Passport author unknown. The Witches of Silverlake Volume One is a 3.5 rating but rounded up to a four as there is potential and it is not really a 3. However, there are a few bumps where things do not flow smoothly and/or jump to “the next scene” without warning, or […]



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