The votes have been counted and Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo is our May Book for our AAPI themed Book Club! #CannonBookClub will be taking place on Friday May 20th and Saturday May 21st. We have a lot of new Cannonballers participating this year, so here are some answers to a few of the typical questions about our book discussions. Feel free to post your questions or comments about #CannonBookClub below. So how does #CannonBookClub work? I’m so glad you asked! Now […]
“Profanity is an essential tool in disrupting patriarchy and its rules. It is the verbal equivalent of civil disobedience.”
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy
Happy Women’s History Month in the US. Let’s talk about feminism and burning patriarchy to the ground, shall we? When I read ASKReview’s review of The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls in December 2021 I immediately threw it onto my to read list for 2022. A book described succinctly as “a call to action written by a queer woman of color” was absolutely something I want to read. There is much in the world that is fucking awful and the roots of that […]
Its Time for Me to Say Goodbye to Dahl
The Witches by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
Roald Dahl was one of the authors who dominated my childhood reading which makes sense as he is one of the most celebrated children’s authors of the 20th century. I spent a lot of time deep in a few of his books, seeing bits of myself in his protagonists. But this is my goodbye to him. Dahl was an unrepentant bigot. He was profoundly anti-Semitic, perpetuating harmful tropes and falsehoods for years in his public statements and books. Dahl is also easily read as a […]
“She was stuck sitting in a wingback chair, her phone as dead as a brick in her hand, and listening to Orchid pepper the townie with questions about how bad the storm had gotten.”
In the Hall with the Knife by Diana Peterfreund
This book wound up on my to read thanks to a Read Harder Challenge from 2020 – read a mystery where the victim is not a woman – and the fact that I had loved the previous books I had read by Diana Peterfreund, For Darkness Shows the Stars and Across a Star-Swept Sea (as well as their accompanying prequel short stories Among the Nameless Stars and The First Star to Fall). It ended up in my hands thanks to my book exchange gifter, NTE. […]
Voting for May #CannonBookClub
The votes have been counted and Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo is the selection for the May 2022 AAPI-themed book club! Learn how book club works and when you can join in on the discussion in the announcement post. May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (or AAPIHM for short) in the United States and was created by Congress in 1992. Here at Cannonball Read we’ll be celebrating its 30th anniversary by focusing on authors who fall within the roughly 50 ethnic […]
“I am both ever evolving and ever decaying.” or another book in need of a CW
Charm and Strange by Stephanie Kuehn
Something is going on with my reading this year, I seem to be swinging back and forth between 5-star books and 2-star ones, which means I should have anticipated trouble with Charm and Strange based purely on it falling in my reading order behind Boyfriend Material. This one didn’t make me angry as some of my other two star reads, Always, in December and Seduction, but it flirted with the line. This 2014 Winner of the William C. Morris Award is designed to be read […]
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