Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A little maturity in the teen-saturated romantic isekai

The Savior’s Book Café Story in Another World by Oumiya, Kyouka Izumi, Reiko Sakurada

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Bingo 11: Rings Thanks to a fellow Cannonballer whose name I don’t remember (sorry! and thank you), I requested and got 4/5 of the romantasy manga The Savior’s Book Café Story in Another World. There are two ring connections here, one of the marriage-relevant sort, and second of the spell-casting visual sort. She has to use her great magic twice, which results in a glowing circular (ring) symbol appearing on her person as well as on the location she’s aiming at (the sky in both […]

Rage against a lot of things, including yourself

Blue Exorcist vols. 26 and 27 by Kazue Kato

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Bingo 10: Rage Volumes 26 and 27 of the Blue Exorcist manga heavily feature a lot of wrath of various kinds. Self-loathing is especially prevalent, but there’s also jealousy, human-demon conflict, and sibling rivalry taken to an extreme. The whole series both Rin and Yukio (twin brothers, and half-demon spawns of none other than Satan himself) have hated themselves for things about their background that they or may not have fully understood (and definitely not at the same time), as well as resentment against their […]

Bookworm Saves the World with Books, Kindness, and Good Food. Oh, and Magic.

The Savior's Book Café Story In Another World Vol 1 by Omiya

The Savior's Book Café Story In Another World Vol 2 by Omiya

The Savior's Book Café Story In Another World Vol 3 by Omiya

The Savior's Book Café Story In Another World Vol 4 by Omiya

The Savior's Book Café Story In Another World Vol 5 by Omiya

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Tsukina wasn’t really interested in being transported to another world as one of its’ saviors, but when told she doesn’t have a choice, she drives a hard bargain to get what she needs to set up her ideal life: running a book café on the outskirts near the capital city of Othel.  Her first customer, Il Soeil, turns out to be the captain of the knights of the kingdom.  Il happens to be just as big a bookworm as Tsukina is, and soon the two […]

And cbr16-BINGO is its name-o

Fangirl, Vol. 1: The Manga by Rainbow Rowell

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Thank you to the person (I have forgotten your name! Sorry!) that said the Fangirl novel by Rainbow Rowell would work for the cbr16bingo Fanfic category! I knew that I could probably read that as it is a young adult and I like young adult reads, so win-win! However, while looking for it, I found that it comes in a manga format as well. I like graphic novels, but manga is not really my go-to choice. But I want to read more manga and this […]

Now I have to wait until November/December for book 8!

Asadora!Vol. 7 by Naoki Urasawa

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cbr16bingo Rings (Japan hosting the 1964 Olympics) Asadora!Vol. 7 by Naoki Urasawa is a manga series that I, for some reason, became hooked on. I am not a manga reader, especially when it is in the traditional Japanese format. I do not usually like horror or monsters. And honestly, a couple of the characters in the story are stereotypes of Japanese people, with the “slant eyes,” odd mustaches, and old/ugly. And yet, there is something about the character Asa that just “gets me” in the […]

Komi has to fight for her school, her friend, and maybe her boyfriend too

Komi Can't Communicate vol. 29 by Tomohito Oda

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Palate cleanser was needed so I went for a volume of Komi Can’t Communicate (v.29). In yet another improbable (and stupid if you think about it too hard) situation, Komi and pals’ school is in danger of being shut down because the 20-something nepo-baby in charge got drunk and made a wager. Now, Komi, Tadano, et al. have to compete in a trivia game, and go to camp to do it. That’s plot thread 1. Plot thread  is that it turns out that the star […]



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