Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Ms. Marvel continues to be delightful

Ms. Marvel, vol 3: Crushed by G. Willow Wilson

Ms. Marvel, vol 4: Last Days by G. Willow Wilson

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#CBR11 Bingo: Illustrated Ms. Marvel, vol 3: Crushed – 4 stars Kamala faces a new, terrifying threat: Excessive feelings! Love is in the air in Jersey City as Valentine’s Day arrives! Kamala Khan may not be allowed to go to the school dance, but Ms. Marvel is! Well sort of–by crashing it in an attempt to capture Asgard’s most annoying trickster! Yup, it’s a special Valentine’s Day story featuring Marvel’s favorite charlatan, Loki! And when a mysterious stranger arrives in Jersey City, Ms. Marvel must deal […]

“I like stories where women save themselves.”

The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

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Gaiman smushes the stories of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty together in this gorgeously illustrated novella.  The setting of the book is sometime after Snow White is awakened from her coffin and at the 100 year mark after Sleeping Beauty’s curse set in. But the stakes are raised when the sleeping sickness that has fallen on the princess and her kingdom is spreading out further and further as the curse lingers.  Several of the dwarves bring this to their queen, and conveniently she is looking […]

The Importance of Dairy

Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman

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Right away I could tell this was written by Neil Gaiman.  I mean, I think that happens with most Gaiman books, but this one jumped out at me.  I think after listening to Neil read his own books I tend to have his voice in my head when I read his work.  We have a lovely tale about a father who goes out to pick up some milk and the fantastic journey he takes to get home.  I could see this being a story that […]

Does what it says on the tin.

Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1) by George R.R. Martin

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First thing about this book that you should know going in: this is not a novel. It is a history book, written in the style of a history book, from the POV of a Maester in-world. It is a made-up history about a made-up world, but it is still history, and there’s a lot of it. If you do not like reading history, or fake history, you will not like this book. It is very similar to A World of Ice and Fire, which was […]

Discovering the Little Prince

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Having never read this as a child I came across this book on Amazon and decided it was time I acquainted myself with The Little Prince. I am now very glad that I met him. This is a book that I think can be read by anyone of any age, and people will take different things away based upon their age and experience of life. It can be read as a simple story of an explorer who meets a young boy in the desert and […]

Through the eyes of a mouse

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Having just finished a non-fiction work about evolution, I decided to bring it down a notch and read something very different, but still somewhat related. Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World is a lovely children’s book about a few days in the life of a white-footed mouse (whom we call Whitefoot, since we don’t know her real name in Mouse language). Author Wendell Berry writes with an elegant simplicity that is sweet without being syrupy. Of the heroine, he writes, “In comparison […]



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