Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

In which the cute cooking manga takes a depressing turn

Kitchen Princess: Vol. 5 by Natsumi Ando (artist), Miyuki Kobayashi (writer)

Kitchen Princess: Vol. 6 by Natsumi Ando (artist), Miyuki Kobayashi (writer)

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Last year my seven year old got into a cute cooking manga called Kitchen Princess.  I read and reviewed book one for Cannonball Read 10 but then only skimmed through the second through fourth books.  After reading volumes five and six my daughter somberly told me that a character had died and requested that I read them too.  This was an unexpected turn for a shojo manga.  The first four volumes contained a beginning love triangle between female protagonist Najika Kazami and brothers Daichi and Sora […]

How many rules am I to break before you understand that your double standards don’t mean sh*t to me?

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu

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  Originally published in French (in two volumes) as Culottées This was such a great read! I was familiar with Bagieu’s work from back when she had her blog (Ma vie est tout à fait fascinante) but had never read one of her books. Needless to say, I am going to remedy that ASAP. Brazen is a collection of graphic bios of women who refused to live according to the rules imposed by society. Some of them are very famous, some of them have been […]

Ringing in the New Year with Deadpool

Spider-Man/Deadpool, Vol 2: Side Pieces by Scott Aukerman, Gerry Duggan,

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The first of my Christmas swag up for review, Side Pieces is the second volume in the Spiderman/Deadpool series, the first of which I adored. Lacking the overall story that drove Isn’t It Bromantic and instead gathering together some of the additional material that’s bookended other stories, Side Pieces is more hit and miss than its predecessor, but not enough to make it completely unenjoyable in itself. Taking in the making of a Deadpool movie, a flashback to some election tampering, an encounter with Penn […]

Dare to be different and true to yourself

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

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Sebastian is a prince who, when looking in a mirror, sometimes sees a princess instead of a prince.  Sebastian longs to express this other side of himself but is afraid of the resulting reactions, particularly what his parents will think.  Frances is a low level seamstress in a shop.  She has daring fashion designs in her heart but the shop Frances works for does not share her artistic vision. Seeing one of Frances unique designs at a ball sparks an idea in Sebastian, to hire […]

You better watch out! Cannonball!

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I’ll be honest. One of the reasons I chose this graphic novel was because it’s short and an easy read, and this is my final review of the year (cannonball!!) so I wanted to just get it done before the holiday crush. Krampus! was an impulse buy at our local comic book store a couple of weeks ago. They had a display at the checkout and it was the selection of the month. The artwork by Dean Kotz, with its bold inks and coloring, features a […]

I Did It

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I really can’t believe I’m reviewing my 52nd book of 2018, because I never thought I’d get here. 2018 was a slog, y’all. The funny thing is, I thought it was because I hadn’t read that many great books this year, but that wasn’t true at all–I could barely find a one least favorite for the CBR wrapup post because I had enjoyed almost everything I read. I just couldn’t get into writing the reviews this year. Luckily, I am extremely competitive with myself, and […]



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