Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Politics are Politics

Never Satisfied by Taylor Robin

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I had not heard of the web comic Never Satisfied by Taylor Robin until I saw it in an book form  I never felt the need to read. That was until I found a physical book. Robin’s book had been published in February 2023, therefore it only felt fitting that I read it a year later. This book is a traditional webcomic style of art and story. There feels to be some bumps and some missing information. Hopefully this can be filled-in by later issues […]

Giving love to a banned/challenged book

ABC-Deconstructing Gender  by Ashley Molesso

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I think I have reviewed ABC-Deconstructing Gender by Ashley Molesso and Chess Needham before. However, since I did not remember that I had read it to start with, or at least not until I got a bit into this alphabet book, I decided to write a fresh review. With current events of banning and challenging books, especially in the GLBTQ+ genre, it is alway good to remind yourself of why that book is good in the first place, or not good, as the case might be. Honestly, […]

And What Comes After Bans?

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

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Read as part of CBR15bingo: gender and banned. Maia Kobabe is a non-binary writer whose book Gender Queer has been banned at many schools and libraries across the country.  It almost made perfect sense that when I saw I had to read a banned book on gender for this challenge, I’d get to Maia Kobabe’s work. Maia’s book seems to have been the spark that ignited the fires of book banning in Florida. I will not argue that most Americans have a complex understanding of gender. […]

What’s this book about? (whisper) seeexxx

At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender: Life Lessons From a 50-Year-Old After Two Decades of Self-Discovery by  Shou Arai

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cbr15bingo sex: how sex and gender are two things, but also how that plays a role in relationships, especially as we age and learn more about ourselves.  An intense, mature subject matter exploration of one person’s journey into what it means to be intersexed and transgender is shown on the pages of At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender: Life Lessons From a 50-Year-Old After Two Decades of Self-Discovery. Shou Arai gives us the ins and outs of sex, presentation and so much more. It can […]

How many ways are there to be tacky?

The Tacky South by Katherine A. Burnett, Monica C. Miller

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Popular scholarship seems to be kind of a newer genre; by this I mean essays by trained scholars that are scaled back a bit in terms of scope and depth, and done in styles that people without academic inclinations might find readable. Often, these kinds of works also tend to be on subject of interest to the general public that have something to do with popular culture. The Tacky South is one such collection. The authors of the various essays use sometimes rather different definitions […]

What’s in a name?

Spear by Nicola Griffith

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The last few years I try to read at least one or two things that I would not normally read. I have done horror graphic novels, manga, and adult novels. I did not do great (but not horrible) this year (that horror manga comic alone would have been enough), but I figured Spear by Nicola Griffith might work. It was adult, and science-fiction/fantasy (heavier on the fantasy). And it was short. I find that if you are tackling a subject/genre you do not normally, short […]



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