While talking about books to celebrate Pride Month, andtheIToldYouSos brought up discovering Becky Chambers last year during Cannon Book Club's The Future is Queer event. "That was a huge game changer- as a reader, queer person, and a disillusioned Harry Potter fan. Rowling was at her worst, and CBR … [Read more]
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg John-Barker, Julia Scheele (illustration)
Widespread Panic by James Ellroy
Quarry's Cut by Max Allan Collins
Read a variety of books close to and over the weekend. Let's check it out... Bleeding Edge **** This is a 2021 reread and it's better than I remember. The ending disappoints but it's still an entertaining, prescient novel. Pynchon warned us about Too Online culture and yet, here we … [Read more]
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
Y'ALL. I'M DOING IT. AFTER I POST THIS I AM ALL CAUGHT UP IN MY REVIEWS!!! If anyone out there is behind in reviews, let me be your motivation. YOU CAN DO IT. Let's get me to the finish line! Voight's Tillerman Cycle follows the Tillerman siblings (Dicey, James, Maybeth, and Sammy) as they learn … [Read more]
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
I am finally getting around to read my second Cannonball Read book exchange gift book this year from Bonnie (thanks Bonnie!) I don't know what took me so dang long because I loved the first book she gave me, Red White and Royal Blue, and it wasn't even on my radar to read, and neither was Homegoing … [Read more]
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
For a long while, I've said that I was going to write a book. It has always been the thing I could do if I wanted to, but I didn't want to actually try because DUH then I would actually have to prove that I could do the thing I so nonchalantly knew I could do. Makes sense, right? See also "fear of … [Read more]
Never Say You Can't Survive by Charlie Jane Anders
I felt a little guilty when I was notified that I had been granted an advance reader copy of Charlie Jane Ander's essay collection, Never Say You Can't Survive. I am not a writer and I have no aspirations to be a writer. I have no qualifications for judging this book. However, I have never let a … [Read more]
