Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Boulders, Heartstrings, and thoughts on The Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling, narrated by Jim Dale

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*Note: This review was completed in 2017 before the author’s views towards our trans siblings began to be widely known.  My reading experience was what it was and these reviews will remain up, but it should be noted that I find her TERF values abhorrent, which have only become more clear over time, and her doubling down in Summer 2020 has made the decision to walk away from her as a creative force the only acceptable choice for me. I will no longer be supporting […]

Insightful, Honest, and chock full of Double Entendres

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I have a lady crush on Sue Perkins. I do not feel that this is an unheard of situation. I was introduced to her via Ale, who was watching the series Supersizers Go/Supersizers Eat from the BBC2 all about food history (it is available on Hulu and YouTube… offf you go). We LOVE food history. This lead to my comfort television becoming watching Sue and Giles drink their way through terrible food. The next great epoch in my Sue fandom was a late to the […]

In Which I Am Deeply Conflicted About A Book, But You Should Read It

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I don’t know how I feel about this book. There is so much that this book does well, starting with its beautiful prose. It’s loosely a mystery, but more in the ethereal way that mysteries exist in our lives when tragedy strikes. There are some questions that we will simply never know the answers. This book unravels the ambiguities of familial relationships and societal pressures which shaped its characters and leaves us with enough unresolved to feel real, and true. Each character in this family […]

The Past Continues to be a Foe in the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling, Jim Dale narrator

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*Note: This review was completed in 2017 before the author’s views towards our trans siblings began to be widely known.  My reading experience was what it was and these reviews will remain up, but it should be noted that I find her TERF values abhorrent, which have only become more clear over time, and her doubling down in Summer 2020 has made the decision to walk away from her as a creative force the only acceptable choice for me. I will no longer be supporting […]

Furry, Non-Cannibalistic Llamas

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Kameron Hurley’s collection of essays is incredibly prescient to the world around us, as women continue to suffer an unheralded epidemic of violence. In The Geek Feminist Revolution Hurley isn’t just focused on that, but she brings around the idea that the type, quality, and diversity of pop culture we consume and produce is directly affected by the cultural norms which lead to the erasure of women in public spaces, and the violence experienced by this group and others who are erased. I wish I […]

“Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”

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I’m slowly working my way through Neil Gaiman’s works. I’ve tackled Neverwhere, American Gods, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (favorite!) , and his short story collections The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains, and M is for Magic. Each has been its own experience, and all generally favorable. As I go on, I find that the full cast audios are my favorite way to experience Gaiman’s world. I listened to American Gods, and later went back and read Neverwhere after listening […]



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