Where did “Nannerbears” come from? Nannerbears came from years of morphing a nickname from one thing to another. When I was little, my sister called me Nana, which eventually got shortened to Nan. It was common for friends and family to call me Nan through high school and college, and that got lengthened to Nanners, and then Nannerpants, and then Nannerpuss (based on the Denny’s nannerpuss ad). When thinking of a CBR persona, I thought something more serious was needed and bears are serious, so […]
Don’t read this, no matter what your mom says! (spoilers and babbling ahead!)
Vox by Christina Dalcher
To be clear, I can’t think of any time I would have enjoyed reading this book. But right now, with so many dumpster fires working together to start a worldwide conflagration, it was especially maddening. When a family friend (backed up by my mother, who had also read it) passed this book on with an evilly gleeful “you’re going to hate this, but it will make a fun review!”, I knew I was in for some misogynistic nonsense. And I definitely got that, but it […]
Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: Jake
How do you decide what to read next on your TBR list? I wish I had an easy answer. In the summer, I participate in various library bingo games, which help me clear my shelves of books I would otherwise let sit there. I read only Black writers in February and I’m going to try to read only female/femme writers in March. I collect Hard Case Crime novels and make a point to read one a month. Otherwise, it’s wherever the wind (and my library […]
Classic book, award-winning movie…BAH.
Children of Men by P.D. James
I remember very little about the movie except a vague impression of not liking it, so I wasn’t real excited when this came up on my library book club list. I was justified in my crankiness; this book was uuuuunpleasant. The story could have been interesting, and the thought-experiment side of things was: how the world’s population would react if there were no more children, how the end of the world can come in with a whimper instead of an apocalyptic bang, how society would […]
Murder mystery in spaaaaaaaace!
Dead Space by Kali Wallace
I can’t remember why this was on my list (a quick CBR search tells me it wasn’t a rec from here), but I couldn’t find it anywhere. I requested my local library order a copy of it, and they DID. Now I am drunk with power, and want to flood my library with niche things only I will read. MWAHAHAHAHAAHAA! Anyway, I hope they’re glad they added it to their catalog, because it was really good. Hester Marley was on a spaceship with a bunch of […]
Really good, and I can see why Twitter and CBR love it, but not quite for me
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
I read Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy last year and loooooooved it, so when The City We Became showed up as the choice for a meetup group book club, I was excited enough to plan to attend and not just lurk. While I did like it, I didn’t enjoy it as much as I did Broken Earth. When a city has enough people, history, culture, and personality, it can come alive, with a person becoming the living avatar of that city. New York City has hit […]
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