I actually just heard about this novel from a recent list on Pajiba titled: “6 Romance and YA Novels We’d Like to See Netflix Adapt Following ‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’”, and upon seeing it described as being about a “magical gay fish boy”, I immediately started text-hollering to my best friend about what a big time it is for fish-people/cryptid… lovers (which is one of our running jokes right now, I KNOW it’s not as funny to anyone that isn’t the two […]
All Those Seafood Descriptions Sure Sound Tasty To Me!
Continuing with my intake of pirate-themed books and tv this year, we have Cinnamon and Gunpowder! A delicious (haha) and fun story from the point of view of a master chef named Owen in the 1800s who is kidnapped by an infamous pirate captain known as Mad Hannah Mabbot: Mabbot has killed Owen’s previous employer, and takes him on to her ship with the intention of making him prepare for her a delicious meal every Sunday. From this basic premise we see Owen struggle to […]
Reading Too Many Novels Can Make a Young Lady’s Imagination Run Wild, You Know! Same Here, TBH
Before now, the only novel by Jane Austen I had read was Pride and Prejudice back in high school, and to be honest I remember the film adaptations of it more than the actual reading of the novel. So in approaching Northanger Abbey, there was a bit of an adjustment for me in getting into the language and writing style of Austen, but after a bit of a curve and effort to get going at first, it became smoother sailing. I can understand why some […]
“The Power of Words […] They Hooked into Invididuals and Wormed Through Generations.”
I am but one of a number of Cannonballers who have read The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin so far this year! And for the most part I enjoyed it, as I know some others did. Though I think the front half really got me more so than the latter half, which is not to say that things don’t all come together and create a beautiful story, but I think it really boils down to feeling more of a connection with some of the characters whose […]
“It’s Wrong What They Say About the Past, I’ve Learned, About How you Can Bury it. Because the Past Claws its Way Out.”
My friend and I were talking about books recently, and she said something about how a lot of the things I had been reading lately sounded very depressing. And I sometimes ask myself why I would want to read something about someone’s pain and hurt, which is a question that I can’t always answer, but it often boils down to the fact that the subjects surrounding this pain is usually one of importance, or perhaps despite all the sorrow there is also a piece of […]
“Unbelief is a Terrible Thing, and So is the Hurt we Cause Others Unknowingly”
A couple of years ago I fell in love with the music and voices from the (at that time) currently running broadway revival of The Color Purple, and I realized that while I knew about this book and the subsequent movie adaptation, I had never read nor watched it. But here it fit perfectly into the bingo square for frequently challenged or banned books, so no time like the present. I can’t recall if anyone I knew had read it as a part of our high […]
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