Cannonball Read 18

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There were also nuns in the book

Danger to Others by Crites, Martha

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Bingo row 4 – red (Why did I splay out the book like this? To show how red it is.) I recently read and partially read a few books that should have been enjoyable, but they weren’t. Maybe I was in the wrong place for books I would have enjoyed at another time. Maybe those books just weren’t for me. But whatever it was, what I needed was murder mysteries. Danger to Others by Martha Crites is a standalone sequel to her first book. If […]

Citation and murder

All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby

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bingo row 5 – citizen S.A. Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed takes place in Flannery O’Connor’s south. The protagonist – even cites her because he is so very well read. The book is set c. 2017 and was published in 2023. Normally several years doesn’t make a big difference, but considering that topics included confederate statues being taken down, Black lives mattering, and racist cops, I think setting it pre-2020 makes a big difference. But I’m not Black and I’ve never been to Virginia so […]

A mirror of the reviewer’s life

Cat + Gamer, vols. 1-7 by Nadatani, Wataru

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Guess I’m trying out bingo. Row 2 – Play. Usually when I relate to a fictional character it’s because of something unpleasant. Like that shitty thing that happened to them also happened to me. But with Cat + Gamer I now have a character I can say I’m like without making awkward ice breaker questions even more awkward. Cat + Gamer is a manga series by Wataru Nadatani. Seven volumes have been released in English; the eighth and final translated volume is expected later this […]

Diverse disabled exepriences

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

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Why did I read Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century from Alice Wong and dozens others? I urgently needed to borrow a book from a friend for specific and convoluted reasons. And the Storygraph’s Genre Challenge includes “an essay collection by a disabled author.” Finally, as a person who digs fashion and human rights, I was (and am) a fan of well dressed activist Alice Wong. Essentially, I had no reason not to read it.   The book is split into four groups […]

Checking in with the X-Men

Uncanny X-Men, vol. 1 by Simone, Gail

X-Men, vol. 1 by Makay, Jed

Exceptional X-Men, vol. 1 by Ewing, Eve

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Several years ago, I decided I wanted to make an effort to get back into the X-Men (being 20ish years behind). This happened to be around the start of the Krakoa era in the franchise, so it was a good time to rejoin I was told. It’s a reboot, the guy at the comic store said. I didn’t like it and stopped reading. More recently, I heard the Krakoa era was ending and they’re starting over again, so I tentatively ordered the TPB (are they […]

Thinly veiled fascism warning could be thinly veiled something else in another year

The Memory Police by Ogawa, Yoko

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The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa is just sad. The evil dystopian memory police make people forget concepts under the guise of forgetting stuff. People accept it because forgetting stuff like music boxes and novels wouldn’t make you forget music or imagination. Except it totally does and people move on without whatever it was that they forgot about. Because what are they going to do? Remember? Pshaw. One day all the roses are gone. The response is, “Welp, roses were nice. Guess I’ll forget about […]



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