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Being a teenager is hard enough without the threat of total annihilation looming on the horizon.

I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

April 27, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 3 Comments

Jesse, Cate, and Adeem are all just trying to survive- even before they catch wind of an alien planet’s message to earth: you will all be destroyed in seven days. Our main trio holds a treasure trove of teen torments between them: absent parents, the desire to be loved, the inability to accept care, the need to be anywhere other than where they are. Everyone is attempting to find someone who does not necessarily want to be found, and I was worried that we’d being […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, Aliens, coming-of-age, debut novel, end of the world, family drama, Farah Naz Rishi, hafez, Islam, LGBTQ, mental illness, radio, road trip, rumi, teens, The Future is Queer, YA

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:39 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, Aliens, coming-of-age, debut novel, end of the world, family drama, Farah Naz Rishi, hafez, Islam, LGBTQ, mental illness, radio, road trip, rumi, teens, The Future is Queer, YA ·
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Reminder! The Future is Queer #CannonBookClub is Coming Soon!

April 14, 2020 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

We’re a little more than two months out from our next book club on June 19th and 20th. For our June book club  we’ll be celebrating Pride Month the Cannonball way with a The Future is Queer book club focusing on speculative and science fiction written by queer authors and/or featuring queer characters.  Since the world has gone into a more protective mode in response to our current pandemic, books might be a little harder to come by, or you may have found your reading […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Becky Chambers, book club, Cannon Book Club, faintingviolet, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, M.K. England, Rivers Solomon, Speculative Fiction, the disasters, The Future is Queer, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Becky Chambers, book club, Cannon Book Club, faintingviolet, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, M.K. England, Rivers Solomon, Speculative Fiction, the disasters, The Future is Queer, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet ·
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Announcing 2020 #CannonBookClub Topics and Dates!

February 6, 2020 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

For CBR12 we’re planning three book clubs that we hope will inspire you to pick up a new to you book or reread something and consider it again. On March 20th and 21st we’ll celebrate five years of #CannonBookClub and revisit our first book – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. We have lots of new faces, as well as plenty of us who have been around since Cannonball Read 7 so it seemed the perfect time to revisit one of my favorite books […]

Filed Under: Book Club, News from MsWas Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Book Announcement, Emily St. John Mandel, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, LGBTQ, M.K. England, Rivers Solomon, Station Eleven, the disasters, The Future is Queer, The Glass Hotel, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

Genres: Book Club, News from MsWas · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Book Announcement, Emily St. John Mandel, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, LGBTQ, M.K. England, Rivers Solomon, Station Eleven, the disasters, The Future is Queer, The Glass Hotel, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet ·
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