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A reader and caffeine addict who consumes all sorts of books, some just more frequently than others. Your CBR Book Club Maven with over a decade of Cannonballing experience I believe in the beauty that comes from a common goal of reading, reviewing, and discussing. Also, Fuck Cancer. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: faintingviolet's Quick Questions interview.)

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“Sometimes I feel like my brain is a machine built by someone who lost the instruction manual.”

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

October 4, 2023 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I haven’t often re-read books in the past decade as I’ve gone on my Cannonball journey. But sometimes I revisit an old favorite, or earlier books in a series before continuing with the newly published. Due to my personal commitment to reading banned and challenged books it has also meant that our Banned Book Week book clubs have included re-reads. I try to review the re-reads on their own merits – what was the reading experience this time. But in the case of Gender Queer my […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Book Club, Non-Fiction Tagged With: banned book club, banned book week, CannonBookClub, cbr15bingo, Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe, Queer Lives, read harder challenge, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:25 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Book Club, Non-Fiction · Tags: banned book club, banned book week, CannonBookClub, cbr15bingo, Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe, Queer Lives, read harder challenge, we need diverse books ·
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This one summer book cover

“Don’t worry about any of this stuff, okay? It’s all just adult junk that doesn’t mean anything.”

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki

September 29, 2023 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

This One Summer is a re-read for me. It is also the book I have read in the past few years specifically from the Banned Book List put out by the ALA that makes me scratch my head the most. It is because this is the book that hit #1 most challenged in 2016 and was why I read it in 2017. It then came back to the top ten in 2018. It did not make sense to me then, and it makes little sense […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult Tagged With: Banned and Challenged, banned book week, Banned Graphic Novels, CannonBookClub, cbr15bingo, children's fiction, Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki, sex, This One Summer, YA

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:24 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: Banned and Challenged, banned book week, Banned Graphic Novels, CannonBookClub, cbr15bingo, children's fiction, Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki, sex, This One Summer, YA ·
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“Big Pancake doesn’t want you to know this, but making pancakes is easier than you think.”

The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don’t Die by Zilla Novikov, Rachel A. Rosen, Marten Norr (Illustrator)

September 29, 2023 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

When my brain is cooperating, I enjoy cooking. But as a neurodivergent person who lives by herself and absolutely has no idea what is presently in my refrigerator at any time (yes, even immediately after going to the grocery store) keeping myself fed has always been an interesting challenge that I attempt to hide from the world around me. I also tend to get stuck in eating the same thing over and over as many autistic folks do. Add to that the problem that meal […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr15bingo, guide, low spoons cooking, Night Beats, read harder challenge, struggle meals, The Sad Bastards Cookbook, Zilla Novikov, Rachel A. Rosen, Marten Norr (Illustrator)

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:23 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr15bingo, guide, low spoons cooking, Night Beats, read harder challenge, struggle meals, The Sad Bastards Cookbook, Zilla Novikov, Rachel A. Rosen, Marten Norr (Illustrator) ·
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Fangs by Sarah Andersen featuring a red cover and a vampire dressed in black goth style bat wing dress

Relationship Between a Vampire and a Werewolf

Fangs by Sarah Andersen

September 29, 2023 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

One of the Read Harder tasks this year is to read a completed web-comic. Not having too much of an idea where to start I did some internet sleuthing and came up with Sarah Andersen’s Fangs. I have been a casual fan of Andersen’s work, particularly her Sarah’s Scribbles series that so often appear on my social media feeds. With the information at hand, this seemed like an excellent solution to finding just the right sort of book for me right now to fulfill this task. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Romance Tagged With: cbr15bingo, Fangs, in the wild, sarah andersen

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:22 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Romance · Tags: cbr15bingo, Fangs, in the wild, sarah andersen ·
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Reminder! The Banned Graphic Novels #CannonBookClub is Coming Soon – October 6 & 7!

September 29, 2023 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

Banned Graphic Novel Book Club Discussion Now Open – Join us today for the discussion! Hello my lovely fellow Cannonballers! We are a week away from this year’s Banned Graphic Novels Book Club! (Did September get away from anyone else? Just me?) We’ll be discussing Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe, Class Act by Jerry Craft, and This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki with topics ranging from  how the art in each book impacted the meaning-making, to how much ‘explicit’ content is really present […]

Filed Under: Book Club Tagged With: banned books week, Banned Graphic Novels, CannonBookClub, Class Act, Gender Queer, Reminder Post, This One Summer

Genres: Book Club · Tags: banned books week, Banned Graphic Novels, CannonBookClub, Class Act, Gender Queer, Reminder Post, This One Summer ·
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A Very Short Murderbot Story

Compulsory (Murderbot Diaries #0.5) by Martha Wells

August 31, 2023 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

In my attempts to conquer my bad reading year (both in quantity and experience) I’ve decided to just read whatever strikes my fancy and stop trying to solve it. At least for now I’m sticking to as many short works or graphic novels/comic books as I feel like reading. I’m also trying to revisit old standbys without re-reading. When I noticed that there was a Murderbot short story I wasn’t previously aware of, I leapt onto it. It is a short story, a very short […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: cbr15bingo, comfort read, Compulsory, Hold Steady, martha wells, murderbot

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:21 · Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: cbr15bingo, comfort read, Compulsory, Hold Steady, martha wells, murderbot ·
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