Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“A witch without her spells is just a girl alone in the woods. And no one wants to be a girl alone in the woods…”

Ever Cursed by Cory Ann Haydu

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Five years ago, the princesses of Ever were placed under the Spell of Without by an impulsive young witch. Every year on their 13th birthday, the princesses will be cursed to go without one vital thing. The eldest Jane was cursed to be without food. Therefore, she hasn’t eaten or drank in five years. Nora is cursed not to love, Alice is cursed not to sleep, Grace is cursed not to remember. Now that the youngest princess, Eden, is turning 13, the witch will tell […]

Girlfriend Had a LIFE.

The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives by Diane Johnson

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That’s her on the cover, lower left hand corner. The first Mrs. George Meredith, nee Mary Ellen Peacock. This biography, written in 1972 by early feminist Diane Johnson, is wonderfully quirky and fascinating. Mary Ellen, to give her the only name that was truly hers, was not famous in her own right, but was what I’d call famous-adjacent. Her father was the Romantic poet Thomas Love Peacock, who, whilst rambling about Wales in search of dramatic scenery, met Jane Gryffydh, daughter of a vicar of […]

Eventual Character Growth

Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing by Allison Winn Scotch

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CBR12 Bingo: No Money! This was an Amazon First Reads book. Cleo McDougal is a 37-year-old U.S. Senator and single mom to 14-year-old Lucas. She is considering a presidential run and suddenly gets a lot of press when her former best friend MaryAnne pens an op-ed calling Cleo a cheater and claiming that while Cleo might do good things, she is not a good person. Cleo shares with Gaby, her close friend and campaign manager, that she has a list of 233 regrets (ultimately more […]

It Can’t Be All About White Women

Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women White Feminists Forgot by Mikki Kendall

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BINGO: UnCannon: The author is a Black woman Best for: People who consider themselves feminists. In a nutshell: Author Mikki Kendall shares a variety of essays covering topics and areas that very much fall under the concept of feminism but that are often left out of the discussion by mainstream white feminists. Worth quoting: “Girls like me seemed to be the object of the conversations and not full participants, because we were a problem to be solved, not people in our own right.” “We have […]

“I googled ‘monkey brothel’, had an existential crisis, and eventually found the details I wanted in a New Yorker article titled ‘Monkey Business’.”

Sex Power Money by Sara Pascoe

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Frequently, I find myself disagreeing with Sara Pascoe- but it’s not a problem! She’s funny, curious, and well-researched, and she makes no claims about being objective. She leans right into the fact that she her opinions are colored by her past experiences, and she remains open to other ideas and beliefs even if they do not mesh with hers. She is open and honest about her past experiences- especially those that pertain to sex, power, and money. Some are truly harrowing, yet she is a […]

Kind of wondering what Queenie would think of current events?

Queenie by Candace Carty-Williams

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Official book description: Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle-class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth. As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to […]



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