Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

In a Hopeless Place

Woodworking by Emily St. James

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Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: citizen. One of the major subplots involves the characters in this book using their rights as citizens to rally around a longshot candidate they want to try and elect. There has never been an easy time for trans people. That wasn’t true in the 1990s. That wasn’t true before Trump I or Trump II. That’s not true today. Depending on where people live, there have been times that are less bad. But never a time that has been “good.” […]

Not all men, but certainly a lot of them. Especially rich, white ones.

The Change by Kirsten Miller

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4.5 stars Buzzwords Cover Challenge 25: Pattern CBR17 Bingo: Red (A book with a red cover) Official plot summary: In the Long Island oceanfront community of Mattauk, three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment… After Nessa James’s husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she’s left all alone in a trim white house not far from the ocean. In the quiet of her late forties, the former nurse begins to hear voices. It doesn’t take long […]

“My passengers. I decide, then and there, to love them. I’ve never loved before. Love is not a standard component of my programming. ” CBRBINGO – ‘O’

Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove

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Thanks to NetGalley, Dreamscape Media & Dreamscape Lore, Bindery Books, and Ezeekat Press for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. I had a great time with this weird little genre-bender. I love books where the author was like, should I do mystery? Romance? Paranormal? Horror? Sci-fi? Why not all?? Indeed. Why not all. Our two main characters are ship’s AI’s, the navigator, and the ship’s doctor. Demeter is the ship’s name, and when the book starts she’s just a normal ship, […]

Locked Down

The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan

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Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: black cover Greenwich Village is perhaps the most beautiful neighborhood in the world’s greatest city. I love walking through it: the winding streets, the townhomes, the cafes and bars, the rich history. It feels like the best the city has to offer. I remember passing by the spot where the Women’s House of Detention was and thinking how beautiful the new building looked. I was curious to see where Mae West had been locked up and assumed when I […]

And the Rose Goes Oh No

Here For the Wrong Reasons by Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang

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Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: review. I read this based on the review here.  My journey into sapphic romance continues with this fun little number. Also, before I begin, the women who co-wrote this apparently fell in love each other while writing it, which is the most adorable thing ever. And in the last romance I read, the writers were a wife-wife team. So maybe I have a thing? Or maybe it’s just coincidence. Either way, I don’t follow The Bachelor or shows like […]

When You See the TV Glow

Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

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Read as part of CBR17 bingo: TBR The trans experience is messy. It’s muddled. It has no straight (heh) line. There is little synthesis of other persons trans experiences. To paraphrase a famous saying about autistic folk: if you’ve met one person that’s trans, that means you’ve encountered only one trans experience. And I think that’s what Hazel Jane Plante is going for with this one. A beautiful, painful capturing of a friendship that meant more, it’s a reminder that trans people tell these stories […]



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