Pizza – Cannonball Read 17

Out of this world pizza and more

Pizza Witch by Sarah Graley and Stef Purenins

March 14, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Inclusion, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge I find books mostly as reader copies and finished copies. Now, I try to have the reader copies physically in hand (it’s easier for me to read) but sometimes (and a lot more lately) I must settle for an online reader copy. And Pizza Witch by Sarah Graley and Stef Purenins came to me in an email that sent me to the graphic novels link to read. Due in mid September 2025, you’ll have a bit to wait before you […]

Cannonball 2024

Kobe Eats Pizza! And Helps Make It, Too by Ashley Wian

The Birds of Bethlehem by Tomie dePaola

Black Girls A celebration of you! by Dominique Furukawa

February 1, 2024 by BlackRaven 6 Comments

I kinda sort of made my first Cannonball in January 2024. Except it didn’t happen because though I had the last three books read, I did not have them written up. I could have done it before the last day of January, but I didn’t review everything I had read, as this year was for fun reading and reviews were second. Or I guess I could say I was waiting for three special ones. So we’ll go with that and those books were only found on […]

Are you my reader?

Catwad Volume 1: It’s Me by Jim Benton

My Little Thief by Augusten Burroughs

A Pizza My Heart by Stephani Stilwell

The Making of Butterflies by Zora Neale Hurston

March 3, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Time for the round-up of books I want to review but cannot do 250 words each for. They range from picture books to graphic novels. And we see old favoirte authors, new ones, and adult auhotrs coming to dark side (afterall, we are kids and have cookies). Sometimes I like Jim Benton, sometimes I do not. And this was a do not. Catwad Volume 1: It’s Me is a collection of (to some, though the line about running hate for Catwad was amusing) humorous stories […]

You’re My Best Friend

Pizza and Taco: Who’s the Best? by Stephen Shaskan

January 7, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

One of the things I like about graphic novels is that they do not “look” like a book. They are books, but they have this feeling they are not really a book to a reluctant or early reader. Does this make them the best format to read? Maybe/Maybe not. But you and your friends can vote on it, like best friends Pizza and Taco do in Pizza and Taco: Who’s the Best? But like any election, there is a lead up to why there is […]

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