Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“There’s beauty in the menial. Life is nothing but a series of quiet tasks with people we love. Isn’t it?”

Tea You At the Altar (Tomes & Tea Book Three) by Rebecca Thorne

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Somewhere in the world, there is someone who will bake you cookies and buy you swords and fight your dragons. Never give up. This continues to be an enjoyable series; I’m sorry it has only one more book to go. It starts out with Kianthe and Reyna deciding to multitask; if they’re getting married, why not add overthrowing Queen Tiliane, Reyna’s former boss, into the mix? Sure, their baby dragons are hatched and causing chaos in Tawney, Kianthe’s uptight parents who she hasn’t spoken to […]

“In my place will grow a feral rose, soft red petals hiding sharp white teeth”

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab

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Bingo Square: B – Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil V.E. Schwab has created another enjoyable stand alone novel with Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil.  It’s about hunger, love, and rage.  Starting in 1532 Spain and concluding in 2019 Boston, Massachusetts.  Three women, across time become inextricably linked and, in Schwab’s words, this is their “toxic, lesbian vampire story”. Bury my bones in the midnight soil,   plant them shallow and water them deep,   and in my place will grow a feral rose,   soft red […]

“When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own.”

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

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No woman should be made to fear that she was not enough. This book is described as “Saint George and the Dragon but make it lesbian”;  I can somewhat see that. It does have basically the myth of Saint George and the Dragon at the heart of it; the Kingdom of Inys, one of the two main locales for the action, is basically founded on a variation of it, and it does certainly have lesbians in it. The basic story is that in the Kingdom […]

“To the people who gave me one-star reviews because the first book “had lesbians.” I doubled the lesbians in this one. Just for you.”

A Pirate’s Life For Tea by Rebecca Thorne

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You have to love any book where the main plot boils down to “four lesbians, with help from varied cast of characters aggravate obnoxious local politician while navigating their relationships”. Leaving their cozy bookshop/home for any plant Kianthe can reasonably (or not so reasonably) cram into its confines behind on their quest to recover the stolen dragon eggs, Kianthe and Reyna crash the garden party of Diarn Arlon, the powerful lord of the Nacean River. With the firm belief that what he wants he gets, […]

Just a couple of moms and their talking cats

Urban Tails by Ilana Zeffren

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I first found Urban Tails by Ilana Zeffren as an online reader copy, though the book has been available since May 2022. I was having trouble reading it online due to the illustrations. The text bled into the images. The colors were dull and this made things feel unfinished overall. The story wasn’t engaging me. But there was something about it that made me want to read it. I knew there was something there. Perhaps it was because it was about Israel. Or because there […]

Celebrating

Queer Heroes: Meet 53 LGBTQ Heroes From Past and Present! by Arabelle Sicardi

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Over 50 famous and maybe not as famous people of the GLBTQ+ community are in the pages of the book Queer Heroes: Meet 53 LGBTQ Heroes From Past and Present!  While I did not count, I would guess at least half or more of the people mentioned are not mainstream (but known in certain circles) or might be the first time the reader (and most) have heard of/about them. Of course there were several more well known (Freddie Mercury, Ellen DeGeneres, David Bowie (who never […]



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