Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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I am a devourer of almost all things pop culture, but especially books. I already make it a goal to read around 150 books yearly, so I figured why not do some good for the world while I do it? I mostly read fiction, with some graphic novels and nonfiction mixed in there for good measure.

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Validating and Vital

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

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Chanel Miller is the name of the victim that convicted rapist Brock Turner raped. For years she was known only as Emily Doe, even after making a huge impact on survivors around the globe when her victim impact letter was shared on Buzzfeed. Now she’s reclaiming her name and her story, and she did an amazing job of it. I would have called this particular memoir vital and validating even if Miller hadn’t happened to be a good writer, but it turns out that not […]

Channeling Former Riot Grrls

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

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I knew I was being pandered to the entire time I was reading this and I loved it anyway. This is yet another in the new trend of “girls fight back against sexism/rape culture/patriarchy” young adult books that I’m always happy to see popping up on my library “new in YA” feed. Books I have previously loved along this genre can be found in my reviews and include “Girls on the Verge”, “Sadie”, “I Stop Somewhere”, “The Nowhere Girls”, and “Sawkill Girls”. And no I […]

Not Quite a Worthy Sequel, But Still Good

The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

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First, let me say that I devoured this book in one day. No matter it’s faults, and it does have them, this is obviously an extremely propulsive book. I couldn’t put it down. Despite it being a giant hardcover, I was carrying it with me everywhere around the house, even when it was inconvenient and even uncomfortable to do so. It’s been a long time since I spent hours doing nothing but just reading, but I spent basically a day reading this and the new […]

A Worthy Followup to Bird Box

Inspection: A Novel by Josh Malerman

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Before I start, I realize my title here may be slightly misleading: don’t get excited, this book is not a sequel to Bird Box. It’s just another book by the same writer. But if you liked Bird Box, I think you’ll like this. This is going to be really hard to describe without giving too much away, because part of what’s great about this book is the slow revelation of what’s really going on. I’m going to be very careful not to include major spoilers […]

The Handmaid’s Tale, but With Chili Peppers

The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo

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I’ve accepted that the theme of this review and my next one is just going to be “books that are extremely hard to describe without giving too much away, but that I really loved”. So. The Core of the Sun in set in a world in which women have been “evolved” with eugenics to belong to one of two classes. The eloi are feminine, submissive, and “wife material”. The morlocks are not feminine, think for themselves, and are doomed to physical labor or to die […]

This Straight Up Gave Me a Panic Attack

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

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Trigger warning for this entire review for discussion of rape, rape culture. It took me forever to be able to write about this one. I almost left work early the day I finished it because I was having a panic attack and didn’t understand why. A couple of hours later I realized it had triggered my PTSD, even though nothing written about in the book had happened to me…at least not exactly as described. But hasn’t the insidious harassment, objectification, and nullification of meaningful consent […]



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