Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Stop being so…. gay

Blessed Cure by Mário Oliveira

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Triggers in Blessed Cure by Mário Oliveira include, but are not limited to: homophobia, homophobic language, homophobic actions, beatings, sexual images of genitalia and acts, prostitution, transphobia.  One man’s life from the 1960s to the 1990s (with the potential for a “now” setting) unfolds as he does everything in his power to not be “so gay.” (Which is  the nicest thing he is called in the book.) From parents blaming each other, doctors blaming parents, the church blaming everyone (especially the mother) to the man […]

By the author who has a ginger girlfriend, an even more ginger dog and an undisclosed number of cats and a lot to say in this delightful book

The Lonely Book by Meg Grehan

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I know it is odd to start a review with a negative, but I want to get it out of the way. I did not like The Lonely Book as much as Meg Grehan’s other titles. This one felt younger than the ones I have read and I was expecting something more mature. With that said, I still enjoyed this addition to their collection of prose poetry novels. Most of Grehan’s books deal with LGBTQ+ issues as well as mental health. This time we are […]

An unpopular opinion for a popular subject as my first Bingo Review

A Song for Nolan by Rushie Ellenwood

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cbr16bingo  Pride  (the character is non-binary)  This is going to be an unpopular opinion. I did not like A Song for Nolan by Rushie Ellenwood and Sally Chen. Now, let me say I like the theme of a nonbinary child and their friends and this situation they find themselves in, but the execution didn’t exactly work for me. Nolan is a non-binary child doing what any child would do: Getting ready for their friend’s birthday party. Maybe they are a bit more eccentric than some, […]

Gender nonconformity Pride

Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding by Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peitzmeier

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I will start my review of Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding with I am a cisgender female who has never experienced the body dysmorphia the people interviewed in this book have experienced/are experiencing. I understand disliking one’s body and the emotional results that can create, as I have had my own issues with body love, but I cannot understand the depth that impact can take on one when it is not only not “right” by not only “looking wrong”,  but also is the wrong gender […]

GLBTQ+ Social Topics

The Big Book of Pride Flags by Jessica Kingsley and Jem Milton

The Gender Book: Girls, Boys, Non-Binary, and Beyond by Cassandra Jules Corrigan

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The Big Book of Pride Flags by Jessica Kingsley with appropriately bold and colorful illustrations by Jem Milton is a fun introduction to the types of flags and the Queer community. Things are not overly in-depth, but it does the job and includes many of the popular flags. Again, the illustrations are fun that accompany things making a nonfiction book (that frankly, could be dull) be loud, proud, and accessible to most ages. There is short, understandable information and the decision guide allows for the […]

The Boy on the moon

Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo

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I am starting my review of Lunar Boy with: I have questions. None are about the story itself, which is, a child from the Moon is adopted by a woman from New Earth. They live on a space station until the mother, in the process of helping her New Earth friend deal with the death of his wife, falls in love, marries, and moves to New Earth. Then, Indu (the child) must deal with not just the stress of a move to a new home, […]



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