Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Dystopia never looked so wrongly beautiful

Brave New World: A Graphic Novel by Fred Fordham

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Never having read the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and only having a passing knowledge of the text/story itself, I was not sure what to expect with Brave New World: A Graphic Novel. The other reviews I read on Goodreads mention the misogyny of the male characters. I am sorry to point out, but duh…. It was 1932. Do you think the author was “woke?” I am assuming he never expected women to read his works because you know, women “don’t read” and […]

Stepping out of my comfort zone

Noor by Nnedi Okorafor

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My review for the Afrofuturism novel, Noor by Nnedi Okorafor AO is part human, part cybernetics. She is an example of how far we’ve allowed technology to become us and we it. We have allowed technology by this futuristic date, to control everything in our lives. Sure, we’ve harnessed clean wind and solar energy but at what price? “Big Corporation” owns everything. The media is controlled and with enough money, lies can be bought as truth. Therefore, in many ways, it is Now (with more […]

quiet duty, questionable faith, and children taking on the burdens of their parents

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

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I’d remembered of course that I should be grateful as always, but hadn’t been able to keep the disappointment from my mind. Kazuo Ishiguro, the master of suffering with dignity, is back with another literary gut-punch. There is no one else who handles quietly doomed duty quite like him. Klara is alive, but not entirely. She is an AF: a robotic companion for disconnected children. She lives in a shop window where she strives to please the Manager. She hopes to bask in the nourishing […]

Yes, I know there are two similar images but couldn’t decide which one I liked more as art is the strongest part of the books

Angel Catbird Volume 2: To Castle Catula by Margaret Atwood

Angel Catbird Volume 3: The Catbird Roars by Margaret Atwood

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Angel Catbird is like a car crash: you want to, but you just cannot look away. There are too many puns and way too long in places. There are cat, vampire, rat, bird and more, puns. There is good-old-fashioned pulp fiction streaming across the pages. Not to mention a modern-to-look-at set of illustrations that are seeped deep in the old school vividly colored and uniquely detailed comic illustrations. Margaret Attwood’s text and Johnnie Christmas illustrations saturate Volume 2 and Volume 3 with these elements. Then, […]

Have you heard of this author, Margaret Atwood?

Angel Catbird Volume 1 by Margaret Atwood

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What do you do with a book like Angel Catbird Volume 1? You read it. However, the real question is should you have read it? In other words, a book is meant to be read, but did it have to be this book? I had heard of Margaret Atwood (she wrote a little book called The Handmaid’s Tale) but had not realized that she had partaken of the world of illustrations and graphic novels. I admit I only realized she was the author after I […]

We took you out from your mother’s womb; Our temple, your tomb

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This book is a sequel, and this review may contain spoilers for the first book in the series, Cinder. I was initially surprised to see the direction Meyer chose to go when continuing her series, The Lunar Chronicles, in that she introduced a new protagonist and switched between character POVs, rather than just sticking with Cinder’s. A lot of time, this is a YA contrivance that bothers me somewhat, because it’s frequently a shortcut into another character’s emotions without having to write them descriptively (e.g. […]



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