Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

THIS is what representation is all about! 10/10 :D

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen

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What an excellent book, picked up on a whim based on a recommendation from who knows where! I’ll get one part out of the way first: this is how you do representation, people, take note. Irene Abraham is both desi (I think half) and Catholic (which is a thing!) and has a line where she shares that her grandparents are Keralites which explains both–if you’re desi, it’s a confirmation of what you guessed as soon as you saw her last name, if you’re not/not aware […]

Please read this book.

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

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CBR Bingo: They/She/He (author and one of the main characters are trans) A book like this makes me thankful for CBR because I get to talk about something that made me so happy. Cemetery Boys is a delight. Yadriel is a teenager in a family of brujx. They want him to follow in their footsteps, but the problem is they’re having some trouble accepting that Yadriel is a boy who wants to become a brujo (rather than a girl who should become a bruja). Determined to prove […]

How to balance social justice, politics, lost love, and maybe more

Soulstar by C. L. Polk

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Bingo 23: They She He I have to admit, I think I saw C.L. Polk saying on social media she/they (both pronouns are noted in the bio at the back of the book) was either non-binary or bisexual, or maybe both? Thing is, I’m not sure, but it turns out it didn’t matter and I can use Soulstar for this square anyways, as one of the main new characters is most certainly non-binary. Soulstar is the final of the Kingston Cycle trilogy, each of which […]

So not written for me, but that’s maybe the point

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

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Bingo 22: Uncannon Reason 1 Black Water Sister should be taught: It’s based entirely in the author’s personal background, Malaysian with some Western influence. The story follows Jessamyn/Jess whose legal name is something a lot more culturally specific (it’s only mentioned once and I couldn’t find the bit where Jess mentions it), is a queer woman in her early 20s moving from the US back to Malaysia with her parents because her dad got a job there. I wouldn’t have known this if I hadn’t […]

A more than sufficient ending.

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

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“I understand that you’ve lost something— a lot of things— but you’re still the same person. I know, because I loved you then, and I love you now, and I know that’s not enough to make you happy— to make anyone happy— but you’re the same person, Simon. You’re still you.” ”It’s enough,” he finally grumbles. ”What is,” I whisper. ”The fact that you love me. It does make me happy.” The group is back from their wild adventure in America and they are all […]

“The things we fear the most are often the things we should fear the least. It’s irrational, but it’s what makes us human. And if we’re able to conquer those fears, then there is nothing we’re not capable of.”

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

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In One Word: Joyful Cannonball Read Bingo Square : Home A good friend of mine was reading this book for a friend book club and I nosed my way in with a jolt, “Um, ‘scuse me? Book Club did you say? What book??” That gathering of people has yet to materialize but I am filled with utter glee that this book came into my life. What. A. Delight. If you are looking for something uplifting, fun, and funny, look no further than this charming tale […]



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