cbrbingo11 – Page 4 – Cannonball Read 17

Youths

Confessions of an average boy by Mark Hill

July 12, 2019 by octothorp Leave a Comment

Pretty sure I bought this due to enjoying Hill’s work on Cracked but I’m hard pressed to remember which articles inspired adding this to the “I’ll buy you when I have money” Amazon black hole, in part because it stayed there a LONG time. And at first I was really wondering what the heck I was thinking. Not to be that guy, but it’s self published and that alone made me skeptical. The actual story doesn’t invite too much promise either. Our protagonist is kind […]

Own Voices

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

July 12, 2019 by octothorp Leave a Comment

This is my Bingo choice for Own Voices and it’s simultaneously a great one and a terrible one in that it is a fictional book written by a transgender lesbian author about the struggles of changing one’s body to reflect a changing understanding of ones self, and the love the protagonist has for her same-sex roommate. Perfect, right? The body she’s changing into is a non-human one, not because she has never felt at home with herself, but because their telepathic hormonal communication works […]

“Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.” Martin Niemöller

Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust by Hedi Fried

July 8, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

#cbrbingo11 #history There was this finished copy of Hedi Fried’s Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust sitting among the reader copies. It was short. It had a pleasant cover. I was hoping it would not be too dry or too academic. Nonfiction can be a drawn out with the author trying to get all their points across and, even, converting you to their way of thinking. And how would these questions work? What it turned out is an interesting way to teach the Holocaust. […]

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