Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

About Abi

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London based transfemme who suddenly got back into reading way more than she has since forever ago when she realised the extremely obvious fact that girls get to kiss girls way more in books than in movies

Abi's Reviews:

*slaps roof* This Thing Can Fit So Much Gay Sex In It

Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner

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Somewhere midway through the chapter two “Oh no my friend brought me to breakfast with my one night stand from last night and it’s her mom” scene of Mistakes Were Made I realised that Meryl Wilsner had sucked me in for the ride. It was truly an outstanding entry in the awkward reunion genre, a little awkward, a little sexy, a little funny. It set the tone for the rest of the book, and it was enough to get me over my general mistrust of […]

Get in Babes, We’re Overcoming Shared Trauma

Let us Dwell in Fair Ithilien and There Make a Garden by materialism, sparklyslug

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There is something about the way that I appreciate fiction these days in that it’s the stuff that I see parts of myself in that hit the hardest. A lot of my reviews here are self-reflective to a lesser or greater extent. It’s probably a knock on effect of not knowing who I really was or not seeing myself in things for most of the first three decades of my life. With Stranger Things, or more specifically the fic written by the Stranger Things fandom, […]

Just Gals being Pals

Girlfriend Material by Katia Rose

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There is a photo, one of the canonical sapphic photos of the internet. It shows one woman lying down on her back, staring up at another woman’s face as she is straddled and the latter does her makeup. It’s an incredible photo and basically every queer woman I know wants that moment for themselves. Girlfriend Material by Katia Rose makes a book out of it and honestly, people should keep doing it it’s wonderful. Allison is the proverbial golden retriever nerd girl who is a […]

Y’all heard about this thing called Girls????

Catch and Cradle by Katia Rose

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Katia Rose is really good at writing two people who want to kiss each other. It’s a simple thing you would think, from a romance author, but damn if this isn’t two books in a row I have read, after The Devil Wears Tartan, where I really was so into the idea of two girls kissing. I mean, this is a pretty standard position for me to take, but this time I was really into it. Catch and Cradle is the story of Hope and […]

I Swear the Fact That This Book Uses Photograph by Nickleback as an Emotional Beat is Good, Actually

The Devil Wears Tartan by Katia Rose

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So funny thing about me is that I’m Scottish, kinda. I’m like, the right amount of kinda Scottish to vibe with the way in which this book is kinda Scottish. It’s set in Ottawa. I live in London. Moira Murray (a name so Scottish my parents are wishing I’d changed mine to something similar instead of making it so that my Scottishness is no longer the first thing that anyone immediately knows about me) and Kenzie Andrianakis (closer to my current level of Scot) are […]

Eat the Rich

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers

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Look if you’re gonna credit Brett Easton Ellis in the acknowlegements, I better be able to tell what level of irony you are doing that on. A weird thing about this book is that there is no dramatic tension, deliberately so by construction. A Certain Hunger is the memoir of a self admitted psychopathic food critic who has murdered and eaten parts of several of her lovers over the course of her career, written from her jail cell. This leads to two things being the case […]



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