Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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A Ostentatious Room With a Boring View

Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan

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Two things. First is, while I didn’t read the summary for this book ahead of time, the A Room with a View vibes are VERY strong with this one (Lucy/George should just be the giveaway). Happy to report, Ms. Rabin, that your lessons on this book were vivid and strong enough to last many many years later. Second is, a friend of mine pointed out that the romance element of Crazy Rich Asians was pretty weak. This is not a false statement! Nick Young is a sketched out man, […]

A Book Written For Me

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

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In order, this book will appeal to: 1. People who are no longer in NYC, and who miss it 2. People who are in NYC 3. People with some passing familiarity of NYC from having visited/lived in NJ growing up While it was pointed out to me that this compromises millions upon millions of people, it is also true that I, personally, find it difficult to imagine the vast majority of people (i.e. those who fall into #4, Everyone else, including one time tourists, anyone […]

Turn This Into Another Movie Stat

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

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CW: pregnancy, abortion (my speaking about it, not an indication of what is in the book!) This is decidedly not a spoiler-y because everyone and their mother has read The Hate U Give by now. If you haven’t, I’m very confused as to why you are reading a review for the Lucas-esque prequel-that-was-written after. Again, it is no spoiler that Maverick is going to have two kids. The story begins VERY much in media res with him finding out that Iesha is pregnant with Seven, so much so that […]

I Would Pay Money For a Book About the Family Ruffin

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar

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You know the #1 thing I learnt from this book, something which has confused me greatly for very long? “Heaux” is a fancy(?) way of saying hoe/ho! I always read it and thought “beaux” which, as you can imagine, gives a whole different meaning to many situations. Thanks, Amber! JK that’s not what this book is about at all. This book is about Racism, with a capital R, but through the medium of comedy, specifically the comedy of Amber Ruffin, human delight we do not […]

Willingly In the Valley Still Means You’re Underground

Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener

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This book is the Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead for the Silicon Valley non-tech set. Which is to say, it is peak all the feminisms that we have tried to be better about since Ms. Sandberg’s book, aka White Feminism x High Paying Job Feminism x One of the Boys Feminism etc etc. That being said…I am, in my default, unexamined state, very much a White, High Paying Job, One of the Boys feminist. It takes constant work for me to plant intersectionality […]

If It Walks Like a Duck and Talks Like a Duck (and Does Autocorrect Ducking Things)

(won't you let me) walk you home from school by somethingdifferent

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After postcardsandbooks‘ post I am newly emboldened to publicly review fanfiction! I feel like doing so will also clarify my review of Bloodline, not that it was fooling anyone. First, rules, both my own ones and the ones that I am sticking with re: reviewing. No less than 5:1 ratio for books : fanworks (and honestly I reviewed two fanworks** last year in the course of reading 130 books, I am not often called to write page-long reviews) (although I always comment!) It’s okay for […]



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