Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

In which the illustrations were not up to par for this Type 4.

The Enneagram Made Easy by Renee Baron and Elizabeth Wagele

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CBR11 Bingo – Illustrated I’ve been a fan of the Enneagram for years, but with its recent popularity rise, I’ve been entering into more and more conversations with friends and coworkers who are starting to explore this for the first time. This book is different than all the other Enneagram books on my shelf for a couple reasons, with the illustrations being one of them. This is very much a beginner’s overview, and would be geared towards more of the casual enthusiast. Unlike some of […]

Okay, enough with the jokes. Now’s the time if you wanna apologize.

One Punch Man vol 1 by ONE

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CBR11Bingo – Illustrated I love One Punch Man so much. If you haven’t read this before or seen the show on Netflix or Hulu, I highly recommend it. I don’t laugh aloud at books or tv shows very much, but both the comic here and the tv show leave me rolling. The set up is what it sounds like: a mysterious new hero arrives in the city and has the power to kill any monster, foe, enemy, adversary no matter how big or strong in […]

This book is cute. Wombats are way cuter.

The Secret World of Wombats by Jackie French

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CBR11bingo: I LOVE THIS What do I love? Wombats! To be fair, I’m partial to animals in general. I even try to coexist peacefully with centipedes, in spite of them giving me massive heebie jeebies. But wombats belong to that incredible group of mammals known as marsupials, of which I’m something of an aficionado. As my friends and more than a few disinterested strangers know, I volunteer on the weekends as a docent at the Los Angeles Zoo, where I not only educate the public […]

Any introverts here? There’s a comic book about us!

Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story by Debbie Tung

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CBR11bingo: Illustrated My sister is visiting me from Philadelphia this week, and she said to me, “I have a cute book for you to read.” Lucky me, she pulls out a book that’s not only a perfect selection for the Illustrated BINGO square, but also as adorable as the tiny nose on the author’s self-illustrated face. Writer and artist Debbie Tung has assembled a collection of comics that tell the story of her life as an introvert. Her black and white ink sketches are simple […]

Intriguing YA Read Concept that Didn’t Quite Stick the Landing

Mercury by Hope Larson

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CBR11 Bingo: Illustrated Picked up on a whim, this graphic novel features all black-and-white illustrations, which are simple but expressive, but the story itself was a bit fleeting to me. Split between the past and present, Mercury follows the journey of a teenage girl in Nova Scotia named Tara. She is currently living with her aunt, uncle, and cousin in her home town, after her mother is working in another province. After Tara and her mother’s house burned down a few years ago, she has […]

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Snowpiercer 2: The Explorers by Benjamin LeGrand and Jean-Marc Rochette

Snowpiercer 3: Terminus by Olivier Bocquet and Jean-Marc Rochette

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Cbr11bingo Illustrated The Snowpiercer trilogy is an example of the whole being less than the sum of its parts. I was on board after the first volume. It hinted at some very interesting history for its main character Proloff, as well as complex, sinister military and political machinations that precipitated the endless, deadly winter that has engulfed the world and forced survivors onto the Snowpiercer, a perpetually moving train. The reader was left with a number of cliffhangers at the end of that volume. And […]



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