Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Loosely based on the author’s life

I Run to Make My Heart Beat by Rachel Khan

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TRIGGERS (but not limited to): sexual assault, smoking, drugs, alcohol, cultural situations    When I found the online link to I Run to Make My Heart Beat by Rachel Khan and illustrated by Aude Massot I thought it was something radically different from what it was.  I assumed it was for the 10 and up crowd, or even younger. It was going to be about a girl who runs. Maybe she will have to overcome the fact she is of color, a woman, or maybe […]

The Fox Warrior in us all

The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha

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I started The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha as an online reader. However, it was only a sample of about half of the graphic novel. I was both “OH! Now what????” and  “Eh…I get the idea…do I go on?” I decided to go on and asked at my local library for a copy. It took a bit, but it was mostly worth the wait. Ha is the delightful author of Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir. And though The Fox Maidens is fiction, I expected […]

Home is where your body is

Homebody by Theo Parish

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Perhaps the first thing I noticed about Homebody (outside of the “removal of color” and the use of color in a non-traditional fashion) was how open Theo Parish’s story was. They are not giving you the “down and dirty details” (unless you count one of the cats giving themselves a um… down there … bath) but they allow you into their world. We also are not given all the “bad things,” just honesty that they were there. The third was, how they do not use […]

Writing for you and me and herself

Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy

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I have not read a lot of Huda Fahmy’s works, but what I do know is that they are an important voice in today’s literary world. Not because she is a woman or because she is Muslim, but because she is someone who is writing about experiences we all face.  I picked up Huda F Are You? (by the way, her mother hates the title) because I found an autographed copy. And while I thought Fahmy would focus more on her religious relationship, the story […]

Among misfits you’re family

Misfit Mansion by Kay Davault

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I was cleaning out my old online reader links (once again…. this is going to take longer than I thought) and found Misfit Mansion by Kay Davault. I had thought I had lost this link, but I was excited to see that I had not. This book has been something I have wanted to read since I first saved the link, but never had the opportunity to read it. And the wait was mostly worth it. This is a terribly cute story about family and […]

An education in who you are

The Airless Year by Adam P. Knave

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After reading The Airless Year I realized two things, first I had wanted to read it awhile back, but had forgotten about it; and second it was not what I expected. I was not sure what I thought this book was about, but not this. Adam P. Knave, Valentine Barker, and Frank Cvetkovic have created one of the first (if not only) books I have read where the parental units are not all “lovey dove we believe in you happy happy you’re a genius” towards […]



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