Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

And so the Lightbringer saga comes to an end (spoiler free review on my thoughts of the series as a whole).

The Burning White: Book Five of the Lightbringer Series by Brent Weeks

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Several years ago, I asked my husband to find me a new author and surprise me with a book for my birthday.  Usually I give him a list of books, or at least authors, and he selects from there.  While I always get something I want, I’m never surprised.  Armed with the names of some of my favorite authors, he went to our local independent and asked for help from the excellent staff.  They suggested The Black Prism by Brent Weeks, first book in the Lightbringer […]

Katie O’Neill continues to write charming, inclusive, all ages books

The Tea Dragon Festival by Katie O'Neill

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Katie O’Neill continues to write my favorite all ages books.  This is her second Tea Dragon book, the first was The Tea Dragon Society, which I reviewed for CBR10.  In the tea dragon world, society is made of several species; mundane humans, people with horns/hooves/antlers, animal people, and dragons.  There is a small amount of magic in the world, and it is all brought charmingly to life with O’Neill’s soft illustrations. Both books are wonderfully inclusive.  People come in a wide range of hues.  Relationships […]

Concluding the Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles. Volume 28

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 28 by CLAMP

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And so the great Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle read through has come to an end.  Shout out to William Flanagan, who wrote the English translation for all twenty eight volumes, churning out translations to keep pace with the publications in Japan.  At the end of each volume he would include some translation notes, sometimes explaining a cultural norm, or showing the process of how he came to use the translation chosen for a particular section.  The writer/artist collective CLAMP used Tsubasa as a way to mix […]

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 23 – 27

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 23 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 24 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 25 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 26 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 27 by CLAMP

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Volume 23 – The original and the copy are going at it in dreams, Sakura is horrified by their actions.  Everyone outside the dreaming is waiting impatiently, as there is nothing they can do.  Original Syaoran has fallen and Sakura runs to his side.  Copy Syaoran even goes so far as to wound Sakura in his quest to get the feather inside O-Syaoran.  Fei-Wang Reed goads C-Syaoran saying that Sakura’s soul is not important to his plans (only her body is necessary) so go ahead and […]

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 17 – 22

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 17 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 18 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 19 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 20 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 21 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 22 by CLAMP

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Volume 17 – In all the fighting, and teleporting, in and out of the cistern, the water reservoir has been nearly depleted.  Yuko can fill the reservoir and save Fai’s life but it involves people asking for wishes and being able to fulfill payment for the wish.  The end result is that Fai, despite his desire to die, will be saved by being made into a vampire with Kamui’s blood.  But because it is Kurogane’s wish, he must take responsibility for Fai, as such the only […]

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 14 – 16

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 14 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 15 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 16 by CLAMP

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Why this all began,  Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles read through. Volume 14 – The volume opens with Yuko and Fei-Wang Reed throwing verbal barbs at one another while magically communicating across dimensions.  In Recort, Syaoran and Kurogane discuss the discovery that the people who killed Kurogane’s mother and attacked Syaoran’s country are from the same dimension.  This adds a new reason to keep dimension hopping. Sakura and Fai have been investigating and learned that the book that allowed Syaoran to see Kurogane’s memory is literally called, ‘the […]



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