Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Fall 2019 Needs to Hurry Up

Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu

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This is a collection of a web comic created by Ngozi Ukazu about the fictional Samwell hockey team. It’s one of NPR’s best books of 2018, but I found it through the Puck Soup hockey podcast. If you don’t like/know anything about hockey and found college to be less than great you will still enjoy this. I love hockey and laughed so hard. But it’s much more about the relationships between friends during a couple of years of their lives. The main character is Eric […]

Lost in Translation to Graphic

Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel by Eoin Colfer, Giovanni Rigano, Paolo Lamanna

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I have read the original novel. In fact, I’ve also read all but the final novel in the original series. I was curious about the graphic novel adaptation. Given that the original Artemis Fowl is a YA novel, I figured a comic book style version would be reasonably similar. It both was and was not. The basic plot remains the same: devious genius Artemis and his loyal body guard/butler Butler devise a plan to kidnap a fairy for reasons which will not be revealed until […]

The Fall of the House of Deschain

Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead by Robin Furth

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Not too much to say here. We get to see Gilead before it’s fall. Constant Readers know about some of the events if you have read the other Dark Tower books. We have Roland reeling from killing his mother and Cort on his deathbed. Oh Roland. He is really a tragic figure. I know that King took inspiration from the Tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table when writing the Dark Tower. You just see more similarities in the comics than […]

“You don’t kick a dressage horse after a failed pas de deux.” – Ingrid de Forest

Grand Theft Horse by G. Neri

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Are you looking for a fascinating true story? Do you have conflicted feelings about the world of horse-racing? Do you like stories about brash women outwitting smarmy men? Would you do anything for your animal friend? Are you always rooting for the underdog? Are you a “horse girl”? Do you just want to read a damn good graphic novel?! If you answered yes to any of that, you should read this book next! Grand Theft Horse is by award-winning writer G. Neri whose books for youth […]

There’s no breadcrumb trail to lead you back

Idiotizadas: Un cuento de empoderhadas by Raquel Córcoles (Moderna de Pueblo)

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This was a fun, light read that nevertheless deals with important issues related to what being a woman means today and what is expected of us, by our families, society and also what we expect from ourselves and our friends. The author, Raquel Córcoles, is better known as Moderna de pueblo, the character she created based on herself. This particular book, whose title roughly translates as Stupefied: A Fairy Tale of Empowerment, is the story of how Moderna has tried to unlearn all the toxic […]

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose…

Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by by Ulli Lust, translated by Kim Thompson

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TG: drug use, sexual assault, violence against women, mafia I’m not really sure I know how to review this book, but I am going to try anyway. Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life is a graphic novel memoir that narrates a specific period in the life of its author. In 1984, shortly before her 17th birthday, Ulli Lust, a rebellious punk girl from Vienna, took off on a hitchhiking trip across Italy with her friend Edi with nothing but a […]



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