Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

All My Life Is Changing Every Day…

Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks

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Read as part of CBR17Bingo: reread. I’m replacing the reread square with a free one here because I enjoyed this book, wanted to write about it and it doesn’t fit neatly into another category. When I was a kid, we didn’t have those conflabbed Hunger Games and young adult fantasy trilogies. We had Goosebumps and Babysitters Club and Matthew Christopher. We had real books, ones that were short and easy to digest, ones that didn’t touch on heavier themes beyond Being a kid sucks. This book […]

Tough Conversations

Do You Still Talk to Grandma? by Brit Barron

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Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: borrowed. I borrowed this book from the library. When I picked up this book, I admit I assumed it was written by a white person. The vibe I got was one of those “Here’s how to have tough talks around the Thanksgiving dinner table” pieces I see every year mostly from white people on how they are supposed to indulge their racist uncle’s FOX-inspired rant. I had no idea Brit Barron is a queer Black woman. That’s 100% my […]

Tis Hot, the Weather, and the Wars…

Henry V by William Shakespeare

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Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: play. Say this much for Shakespeare: he had a sense of humor. And an irreverent one at that. There’s no other way you can possibly appreciate Henry V without it. Considered the last great English king of the Plantagenet line (or maybe not, depending on how you feel about Edward IV) before dying an untimely death and giving rise to the Wars of the Roses that brought his family down and gave us the Tudors, this play starts off not at […]

When You See the TV Glow

Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

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Read as part of CBR17 bingo: TBR The trans experience is messy. It’s muddled. It has no straight (heh) line. There is little synthesis of other persons trans experiences. To paraphrase a famous saying about autistic folk: if you’ve met one person that’s trans, that means you’ve encountered only one trans experience. And I think that’s what Hazel Jane Plante is going for with this one. A beautiful, painful capturing of a friendship that meant more, it’s a reminder that trans people tell these stories […]

In which PattyKates is surprised by The Black Dagger Brotherhood

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Black Dagger Brotherhood Watch: S1E1 Katie: Patty, shall we revert to our Khatie and Phatty names since JR Ward insists on inserting unnecessary Hs into names? Phatty: Absolutely. Khatie: I thought you’d feel that way. Phatty: Wait, was there an intro? Did I miss or skip the intro? Khatie: on the show or to this conversation about the Black Dagger Brotherhood series created by Passionflix based on the series by JR Ward? That was an enormous mouthful. Phatty: Girl, to the show. We’ve been talking […]

If You’re Curious About the World of Anora…

Soft Core by Brittany Newell

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Note that this is suggested for people curious about the world of Anora, not people who want to read something like the actual movie. This book is likely to frustrate some readers if they don’t know what to expect. My guess is many folks will come to this looking for a trippy missing person mystery featuring a sex-worker-turned-amateur-sleuth. That’s not what this is at all. Yeah there is a missing person aspect to it and that sort of draws the character down to a rabbit hole. […]



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