Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

cbr12bingo – UnCannon

Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

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Jordy Rosenberg is a transgender writer and scholar. He teaches 18th century literature and queer/transgender theory. He is clever as all get out, well-researched, funny, and overflowing with empathy- all of these things brought into vivid color in his debut novel, Confessions of the Fox. I’ve selected “UnCannon” for this Bingo Square- but it was close call between UnCannon, Debut, Violet, and Pandemic (plague ships ahoy). I also almost gave it an “I Wish”, because good gravy, do I wish I could sit in on any […]

Snow Dice

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

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For my first CBR Bingo read, I choose the ‘UnCannon’ card (a book not written by an old white man) and eagerly started Suzanne Collin’s Hunger Games prequel: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The book follows the final teenage years of the future President Snow’s life. Remember him? The evil villain who taunted and terrorised young Katniss Everdeen in the original Hunger Games trilogy? This book attempts to answer the question that nobody asked: what was Coriolanus Snow like as a young man? Well, for […]

I fail to can (CBR12Bingo: Uncannon)

Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

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When I was a wee pretentious lass (as opposed to a pretentious woman who needs to lose ten pounds) I decided to see how much I could communicate by speaking in Simpsons quotes and Radiohead lyrics. It was precisely as awful as it sounds, and I want reach through the fabric of space time to smack teenage Octothorp upside the head. This reads QUITE a bit like that, but with lots of bible stuff in between, so it’s more or less the exact worst book […]

Sth, I know that woman.

Jazz by Toni Morrison

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CBR12 Bingo – UnCannon This is a reread so my review is going to wander at times and focus on singular parts of the story. I also listened this audiobook while the last time I read it, I read it straight. I also was strangely walking around Richmond as I listened and they’ve been taking down Confederate statues this week and they’ve be scrubbing and cleaning up spaces not Confederate (or linked) also tagged by graffiti, so there’s a funny contrast of what the city […]

What if you could have your entire appearance altered by magic, over and over again? – UnCannon

The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

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UnCannon: Dhonielle Clayton is a young (37 is younger than me so it counts!) black woman so she is pretty polar opposite of an old white man.  I had my eye on The Belles for a while now and when the Black Publishing Power Initiative came up, it seemed the perfect time to buy the book. Clayton created a world where beauty is the ultimate, ever changing goal, and access to beauty is controlled.  Cursed by the God of the Sky the people of Orleans are […]

“I don’t want you to keep downplaying the hurt you feel like you’re not even human. You keep it up – all these lies to yourself, to other people, and soon you’re not going to know who you are.” (CBR12 Bingo)

I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

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My Cannonball Bingo tradition is to sit down with the square descriptions and game plan out options for what books to read for each category. I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi could qualify for several squares (this is her debut published October 2019, we read it for CBR Book Club) but I’m using it for UnCannon. The ‘Canon’ is often made up of books written by old, white men and the goal of this square is to read as far from […]



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