Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Love Islands

Not Like Before by Lily Seabrooke and Jacqueline Ramsden

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Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: starts with N.  I’ve been trying to read more books with trans authors and trans main characters. Given this perilous moment for trans people, I worry about the erasure of their stories. And I think it’s important to take them in. Also, the trans experience, like every other marginalized experience, is not one just of suffering and pain. Trans people feel joy, feel ecstasy, feel euphoria. Trans people live their lives like any other and mostly want the same […]

A mirror of the reviewer’s life

Cat + Gamer, vols. 1-7 by Nadatani, Wataru

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Guess I’m trying out bingo. Row 2 – Play. Usually when I relate to a fictional character it’s because of something unpleasant. Like that shitty thing that happened to them also happened to me. But with Cat + Gamer I now have a character I can say I’m like without making awkward ice breaker questions even more awkward. Cat + Gamer is a manga series by Wataru Nadatani. Seven volumes have been released in English; the eighth and final translated volume is expected later this […]

Get in to Dodge

Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens

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Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: workplace. The vast majority of the book takes place at the Buffalo Queen saloon. I love reading. And I’m a voracious reader, as my Cannonball Read review catalog can attest to. Maybe I don’t get to it as much as I have in years past but I enjoy reading and documenting what I’ve read. However, because I devour so many books, I tend to have either read or tried most of the stuff I see on listicles. It’s to […]

I recommend BINGO and this book

The Last Time We Spoke: A Story of Loss by Jesse Mechanic

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cbr17bingo Rec’d: Grief stories are not new, but each is unique to that person. The main thing I came away with from reading The Last Time We Spoke: A Story of Loss, is that the author (Jesse Mechanic) is human: selfish, loving, scared, fearless, angry and hopeful. They are both a reliable and unreliable narrator as they are telling the story from their eyes and over a 20 year period. The art is tone setting and allows us a peek into the mind of someone […]

Very is very good at all things…. except math

Very Bad at Math by Hope Larson

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cbr17bingo School  There have been days when I haven’t wanted to do any reading of late and then days when all I can do is read. Very Bad at Math by Hope Larson was part of one of those reading days. It is a graphic novel that is a coming of age story, therefore it has many of the familiar goodies, with a few new elements to keep it fresh. Everyone will have their own take on things due to their experiences and where they […]

meandering thoughts about grandiose concepts does not an award winner make, please

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

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BINGO: “O” I’m in the middle of a Space Phase now, clearly, what with Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (gay and delightful) and Murderbot (🚨🚨🚨🚨 new murderbot short story today in the POV of ART 🚨🚨🚨🚨) and getting hooked on For All Mankind (midway through season 2, wish there were less Earth Drama and more Space). So it only made sense to pick this up, this tiny book from the Booker list which has not paid amazing dividends or anything, but see what it brought forward. Here is the […]



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