Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

About Sofi Keren

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Sofi Keren lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is the author of two sapphic romance novels, False Starts & Artichoke Hearts and Painted Over.

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Love In Plaid

The Devil Wears Tartan by Katia Rose

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TikTok got me on this one. I found myself watching a video where the author promoted her new romance novel where two women from rival highland dance schools hate each other and then…really don’t. I ordered it immediately. It was delightful. Moira is still reeling from a breakup that happened some time ago where her ex-girlfriend called her boring, something she really took to heart. All she really wants is to keep teaching at her family’s dance school, but she feels like she’s supposed to […]

What Would You Trade for Magic?

Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron

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Arrah is sixteen and she still has no magic. This is a huge embarrassment because her parents are both incredibly powerful witchdoctors, her mother the Ka-Priestess of the Almighty Temple. There is one thing that a desperate wannabe-witchdoctor can do to get magic: trade away years of their life in exchange. Something bad is coming, and Arrah and her family will be at the center of it. This is the first in a planned trilogy of novels, and there’s a whole lot going on. There […]

Zombies, But Literary

Zone One by Colson Whitehead

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My book club is a fan of Colson Whitehead. We read The Intuitionist (a beautifully odd book about elevator inspectors which I loved) several years ago, then The Underground Railroad (also very good, and the winner of many awards) when he came to speak at a university in city our city. We may have fangirled and fanboyed out a little in the signing line afterward. I had a library copy of his book, which he signed. Hopefully someone smiled after they checked it out after […]

Fascinated, then Restless

We Were Restless Things by Cole Nagamatsu

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Sometimes a book gets packaged as something it’s not, which always does it a disservice since the reader is expecting something different than they get. They may love the new, surprise story or they may be annoyed that what they hoped for wasn’t within the book they picked up. I’m somewhere in the middle with this novel. We Were Restless Things is about a mysterious lake in the woods that only appears to teenager Noemi Amato and occasionally to her friends once Noemi has taken […]

Celia Sucks: A Rant About Evelyn Hugo

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Once a year it’s my turn to pick a book for my long-running book club. And every year, I choose a book about lesbians. Last time, it was The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters. One of my book club friends’ grandma decided to read it also and was mildly scandalized by the fairly graphic sex scenes. This year I chose The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, mostly because lesbian Twitter called it dramatic adjectives like “gutting.” My guts stayed firmly in place, but I did […]

Fighting the Spirit Robot Patriarchy

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

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I picked up this novel because I was seeing it mentioned quite a bit on Twitter. And…I loved it. Nice job, queer literature Twitter. In this alternative world China, poor families sell their daughters either as wives or to the military, where they are partnered with the male pilot of a Chrysalis. Essentially a Chrysalis is a giant fighting robot made of spirit metal, which can morph into different forms. It is fueled by the qi of the male pilot and a female companion. Often […]



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