heartstopper – Cannonball Read 17

More Nick and Charlie, just in time for Christmas

Heartstopper volume 5 by Alice Oseman

December 31, 2023 by Malin Leave a Comment

Nick and Charlie are closer than ever, but despite what their friends think, they still haven’t done THAT. Lately, it’s probably all either can think about, but it’s a big step and neither wants to pressure the other. Nick is also a year older than Charlie, and is having to consider which Universities he’s going to apply to next year. His first inclination is living at home and going to his local Uni, so he’ll be close to Charlie, but he goes on a road […]

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Nick and Charlie: A Heartstopper Novella by Alice Oseman

Class Act: A Graphic Novel by Jerry Craft

Squished: A Graphic Novel by Megan Wagner Lloyd

November 14, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

What happens when you read three books (one young adult novella and two middle reader graphic novels) but none of them inspire you to write large expansive reviews about them? You combine them into one fun package. Now, that is not to say these books are not good, in fact they are delightful. One is a continuation of a beloved graphic novel series, Heartstopper by Oseman. In fact, so beloved it’s been adapted to the small screen. The other two are familiar themed, but fresh […]

I’ll read/watch anything with Heartstopper in the title…

The Heartstopper Yearbook by Alice Oseman

October 26, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

I’m starved for more Heartstopper content while I wait for the next season of the show to wrap up filming and production, and for the final volume of the comics to come out, so I’m at the point where I’ll take any morsels I can get. Enter The Heartstopper Yearbook. It’s part art book, part reflection on the series, part other miscellany. However, it’s 100% adorable, including the book itself, with its gold-print leaves on the cover. Whether you like her books or not, I think you have […]

Cannonball!

Solitaire by Alice Oseman

August 3, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith 5 Comments

Including avoiding Solitaire altogether! Unless you want to take what seems like a lovable side-character from the Heartstopper series and completely ruin her for yourself like I did. That is the only thing I can say with certainty that this book accomplished, and I’m not exaggerating in the slightest. To Oseman’s credit, she was 17 when she wrote this, and it was her first published book. I know I wouldn’t want the novel I wrote at 17 distributed for everybody to read. Trust me, mine […]

Now I have to wait a whole ‘nother year!?

Heartstopper, Volume 4 by Alice Oseman

July 30, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

Well, I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, so to speak, and Oseman to finally dive headfirst into the more serious matters she’d been dancing around. However, I don’t know that I expected it to go this far. That’s not a bad thing. I appreciate that Oseman didn’t aim to give readers some twee, PG version of these things. That would’ve been a disservice to the characters, their story, and the subject matter. Nick, Charlie, and everyone around them are in the absolute trenches in volume four. At the […]

Now I’m starting to see the differences…

Heartstopper, Volume 2 by Alice Oseman

Heartstopper, Volume 3 by Alice Oseman

July 27, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

Heartstopper really is just a warm hug of a series. Even when I know where things are going already, having seen the television show already, I’m not about to turn down that comforting, familiar squeeze. Volume two continues the trend of having most of the same beats as the show, but gone is a lot of what the show added in to heighten the drama. Basically, it’s fewer anxious moments and a faster happy ending, which I see nothing wrong with. Perhaps some of those […]

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