Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I fell in love with you the day that I met you, and then I fell in love with the person you remembered you are. I got to fall in love with you twice.”

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

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CBR13 Bingo: they/he/she (the author is non-binary and bisexual (and uses any pronouns) and the book features pretty much all iterations of the queer spectrum, I’m not sure there is a straight character of any significance in the whole book) Official book description: Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn’t believe in much. She doesn’t believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. And she certainly doesn’t believe her ragtag band of new roommates, her night shifts at […]

Steamy and Cute

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

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Faintingviolet turned me into a Rainbow Rowell superfan a few years ago, so I was very excited to get a beautiful special edition hardcopy of Any Way the Wind Blows for my birthday this year. The third and final chapter of the Simon Snow trilogy (which apparently wasn’t ever supposed to be a trilogy), follows our favorite cast of characters back to England where a whole bunch of new “Chosen Ones” are cropping up. Baz finds out his step-mother’s joined one of the Chosen One […]

Funny but a little bit dated in LGBTQ+ depiction

Practical Demonkeeping: Pine Cove Series, 1 by Christopher Moore

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CBR 13 Bingo: Self Care and Bingo #3!- I listened to this book while taking my daily health stomps to take care of myself. Rarely do my book reviews elicit any reactions or comments on my Facebook page but my review of Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal had multiple friends commenting how much they love Christopher Moore and the next book I need to read is Practical Demonkeeping. So once I completed listening to the Dresden Files short stories, I used the […]

“We can’t expect one person – or even two – to take on the entire burden of resisting on their shoulders. We all have to stand up and say NO.”

The Everlasting Rose by Dhonielle Clayton

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CBR 13 Bingo: Flora The Everlasting Rose is the sequel to Dhonielle Clayton’s  The Belles.  To quote myself regarding The Belles, “This was fantasy the likes of which I haven’t read before, full of decadence and frippery, a magic system based on beauty, and I was entranced.”  The Everlasting Rose is a different beast of a book compared to its predecessor as it is a fugitive and resistance story. The soon to be new Queen of Orleans, Sophia, is setting the pieces in place for a […]

a #cannonbookclub favorite RETURNS!

It All Comes Back to You by Farah Naz Rishi

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Last year, during our The Future is Queer book club event, we were introduced to the sweet and complicated world of Farah Naz Rishi with her debut novel, I Hope You Get This Message. She returns next week with a decidedly different but still warmly familiar follow up: It All Comes Back to You. IHYGTM sits firmly on the edge of an apocalypse; aliens have made contact with Earth and time is quickly slipping away. It All Comes Back to You is firmly planted in another […]

It’s not you, it’s me. I think?

Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

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Bingo: Travel. (This novel takes place in my home country, the Netherlands. I moved away 14 years ago and haven’t been back in four years – I miss it so much! It was interesting reading an outsider’s perspective of the Netherlands, though the country largely functions as a backdrop.) An unnamed, young woman moves from New York to The Hague, after the death of her father. She has taken on a new job as interpreter at the International Court, where she has to translate for […]



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