Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Short Stories Unbound by Gravity or Gender

Trans-Galactic Bike Ride by Lydia Rogue

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The full name of this anthology is Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventures, which is a title almost long enough to be a short story of its own. It’s the seventh volume of the Bikes In Space series. As editor Lydia Rogue says in their introduction, this book is meant for the trans and nonbinary community. Characters in each story are trans or nonbinary, as are their authors. You might think that the feminist sci-fi short stories featuring […]

AKA Carol

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

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Aspiring set designer Therese Belivet is working in the toy section at a New York department store until her boyfriend’s friend comes through with the theater job he’s promised he can get her. She finds waiting on the pushy, demanding mothers unfulfilling and doesn’t seem to fit in with the other ladies who work at the store.  Then right before Christmas a woman comes in to buy her daughter a doll and for reasons she doesn’t fully understand Therese is captivated. Before she can change […]

Starting the year with a sure-fire hit

A Very Beery New Year by Jackie Lau

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Encouraged by his mother to socialise more, introverted software developer Gerald Nakamura goes to his local craft beer bar to sit by the bar, reading a book, not really interacting with anyone except the serving staff. He especially likes exchanging a few words with the pretty and vivacious bartender Kelsey.   Kelsey lives with her rather exasperating grandmother (who just discovered Tik Tok and is determined to become a viral sensation) and works at the bar until she can find something more suitable to her […]

Ten Thousand Escapes

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

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I am going to start this review by thanking John Green for giving me a quote I can use to describe my feelings for this book: “I fell in love like you fall asleep: slowly then all at once.” I haven’t even read that book but it’s a pretty good quote and fits here so well. If I was more critical or reviewed and rated based on quality over the feelings that a book makes me feel I might lower this rating. It is far […]

Saving Grace

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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I’ve read all of Andy Weir’s books. He’s written three so that’s not exactly a major achievement, but it does give me the opportunity to compare and contrast them. Like most people I enjoyed The Martian but did not care very much for Artemis (which, well-intentioned though it may be, is a textbook example of how not to write a strong female character). I loved Project Hail Mary, though with a couple of caveats. But hey, that’s what reviews are for.  First up: it’s really […]

What If Your Imagined Self Actually became Real?

Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo

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Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo My rating: 4 of 5 stars I stumbled across this book after searching online for novels in verse recommendations for my classroom. Then, I was at my local bookstore and found it on the shelf. I decided to take a chance and see whether I’d like it or not. I’m still new to novel in verse world but I was very absorbed into this volume. The verse in this is very poetic in the sense that it […]



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