hotels – Cannonball Read 17

The girl, the mother, the countess and the parrot

The Hotel Balzaar by Kate DiCamillo

May 12, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Author Kate DiCamillo is one of those authors I find myself having hits and misses with. I still consider her an author I enjoy, but I’m not always the audience she was going for. With that said, I was excited when I found a copy of The Hotel Balzaar (illustrated by Júlia Sardà) in our (unfortunately) damaged books. I had been wanting to read something that was a novel to break my graphic novel habit (as you know a favorite genre) but nothing too heavy. […]

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Hotel REM by Zack Keller

April 30, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

When I read about Hotel REM it sounded like it was going to go in a completely different direction than what the actual graphic novel turned out to be. It also had a different feeling from the cover. And while, yes you can find some of the story out from the cover, this is a book that also is one that you should not judge it by the cover. Zack Keller wrote an interesting coming of age story. The colors and details of the illustrations […]

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Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky

February 22, 2019 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

Do you have a thankless job where you are expected to maintain complete and utter composure at all times, deal with difficult clients/customers, find yourself on the brink of alcoholism, work too many hours, and have a host of ridiculous stories about the shit you’ve dealt with? Jacob Tomsky does, and if you do too, then this book may just be the salve you’ve been waiting for. Despite being an arts worker, I’ve managed to avoid working in the hospitality industry to supplement my income, […]

Is it too soon to call my favorite book of 2019?

Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky

February 12, 2019 by Blingle Bells 1 Comment

You guys, I could not put this book down. It was also kind of like eating a Twix bar hidden in a Fiber One bar wrapper, because whenever anyone asked me what I was reading and I said that it was a memoir about the hotel industry and I couldn’t tear myself away from it long enough to function, for whatever reason the topic struck people as a much more dry and scholarly than it was. And I really don’t know why – what goes […]

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