Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Guess I have an extra format to collect Fangirl in now

Fangirl: the manga, vol 1 by Rainbow Rowell and Sam Maggs

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Cath Avery thought she’d be sharing a room with her twin sister Wren when they went to college (isn’t that the benefit of having a twin?), but her sister has cut her hair into a cute pixie cut and is looking forward to reinventing herself at college. She’s already friends with her roommate and can’t wait to move away from home and their anxious father. Cath, on the other hand, is deeply outside of her comfort zone. Online, she’s an undisputed queen, an incredibly prolific […]

Komi Can Communicate, But Only Just Barely

Komi Can't Communicate, vol. 10 by Tomohito Oda

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So, Komi Can’t Communicate is one of those things that makes use of a lot of stereotypes and still mostly manages to be entertaining. It’s volume ten of the manga, and Komi actually gets to take the lead in some social interaction and making a new friend without Tadano or anyone else. There’s also a side story about her younger brother who’s apparently pretty similar to Komi in that he struggles to use words with other people, getting away with it on the basis of […]

Normal Animated Food Stories

What Did You Eat yesterday? vol. 13 by Fumi Yoshinaga

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I find things like Yakitate!! Japan (I’ve only read the manga) and Food Wars! (both the manga and anime) entertaining up to a point, but the over-exaggerated reactions to tasting various foods gets old after a while. If you like graphic novels and food, but want something a little more down-to-earth, then you should check out What Did You Eat Yesterday? It’s a pretty niche series, in that it follows Kenji and Shiro, a gay couple in current day Japan, through their daily lives, but […]

“Honey, I’ve watched a lot of 90210. The parents weren’t even on the show once Brandon and Brenda went to college. This is your time – you’re supposed to going to frat parties and getting back together with Dylan.”

Fangirl, Volume 1 by Rainbow Rowell, Sam Maggs, Gabi Nam

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Well, this was cute. Maybe it wasn’t as robust as I had hoped, but my god, it was cute. I had heard a few weeks ago that Rainbow Rowell had agreed to release a Manga version of Fangirl…and without any further details, I preordered right away. I didn’t realize it was just “Part 1” and that it would end right when I didn’t want it to. I have no idea how much longer I am going to have to wait to see Levi take Cath […]

The Real Not Real High School Years

Azumanga Daioh Omnibus by Kiyohiko Azuma

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Bingo Review 24: Nostalgia I was a teen from the mid-1990s through the early 2000s. I have also had a book on my TBR shelf, the first part of which was published in 2000, both my last bit of high school and first bit of college, that covered a group of girls during their high school years. Thus it seemed fitting to look at Azumanga Daioh Omnibus for the Nostalgia square. As with many comics and manga, it was originally published as a series of […]

Talking Slime and Generic Fantasy Gets Interesting

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol 13 by Fuse, Taiki Kawakami, Mitz Vah

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Bingo Review 22: I Wish Sometimes, even pre-now world times, there are moments of kind of daydream wishing that I might be able to be a part of a fictional world I have been reading, and it’s almost always a fantasy (pun not totally intended). That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is on the one hand, generic fantasy based on common gaming tropes, but on the other also interesting enough for some of the political and social elements of the world that have […]



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