Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

About Abi

CBR14 Participant

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:

Writing Your Own Happy Ending

Read Between the Lines by Rachel Lacey

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This one grew on me after kind of a rocky start. A combination of it taking it’s time working through an awkward setup and taking some time to warm up to the writing style meant that I spent the first couple of sessions pretty cold on the whole thing, but I came around by the mid point. Rosie and Jane are many things to each other – Customer and bookshop owner, author and reader, twitter mutuals with a budding friendship, Awkardly, between an online pseudonym […]

Finding Hope in Confronting the Past and the Present

The Secret of You and Me by Melissa Lenhardt

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A lot of the queer fiction I have been recently has featured characters living in either New York or the Pacific North West, or both. Places with widespread acceptance of queerness, or at least enough that the characters are rarely under threat for it within the text, regardless of the real world. The Secret of You and Me on the other hand, draws much of it’s power from the inverse, from a lack of acceptance in community, of what it feels like when you are […]

Hold On Tight and Don’t Look Back

The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: California by Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, Becky Cloonan

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To put it as clearly as possible… There is something wrong with you and we are going to fix it. I’ve been having kind of a Danger Days summer. This following my Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge spring and my Black Parade winter. What can I say, when I discover a band I am sometimes prone to musically hyperfixate. So the thing about this review is that it is taking quite a lot of self restraint to keep it as a review of the book […]

What if We Fell in Love, as a Bit?

Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

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After a spectacularly bad first date, Elle and Darcy assume they will never see each other again. Then both of them have run ins with family where they are once more quizzed about the failures of their love lives. So Darcy hatches a scheme. What if they agreed to fake a relationship for a few months to prove to their respective families that they were in fact capable of doing more than just failing at their personal lives? Surely that would solve all their problems, […]

World Cold and Hard, Legends & Lattes Soft and Warm

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

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There’s something delightful about a story with low stakes. So often stories set in fantasy worlds have so much at stake that the quiet moments can be lost, the fates of the kingdom or the world taking over. Legends & Lattes is all about the quiet moments, of the therapeutic joy of brewing a cup of coffee. It’s also about the joy of making something with people you care about, and dare I say it, of chosen family. Not that the last part is super […]

They Were, In Fact, Roommates

Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

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I would simply communicate with my partner what my desires and feelings were and not assume that they didn’t like me as much as I liked them, leading to us both feeling awful and hoping that the casual status quo is better than ruining things by telling her how I felt. – Me, reading this book, lying to myself probably You know the stereotype about queer women that we are incapable of telling if a girl is into us, even to ridiculous levels? Count Your […]



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