Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Fantastic YA Centering Queer History & Adventure

Lion’s Legacy by LC Rosen

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Gosh, gosh, gosh! This book, LC’s writing reminds me how reading a queer book by a queer author really does hit differently, in the best ways. Tennessee Russo is a teen who’s been going on adventures with his dad to find ancient artifacts for his dad’s tv show since his bar mitzvah, but at fifteen he starts to see the way his dad sells the artifacts as unethical, which results in a fight where his dad abandons him in Japan. Two years later, Ten has […]

Roger Zelazny

Trumps of Doom by Roger Zelazny

Blood of Amber by Roger Zelazny

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Trumps of Doom “He started out walking, into the Labyrinth. There seemed to be a faint tune in the air…” I don’t know if I can fully explain why, but within the first few pages of this book, I knew that my biggest complaint about the original series was at least being addressed. Whether or not it’s fixed, we’ll see. This is the follow up series to the Nine Princes of Amber which were published from 1970-1978. This series was first published in 1985 and […]

“Why do these colonizers always claim what isn’t theirs?”

A Master of Djinn by P. Djéli Clark

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I read the previous novella in this series, A Dead Djinn in Cairo,  and really enjoyed the world that P. Djeli Clark created in it. I have a few friends that, whenever we get together, we compare “what we’ve been reading” lists, and in one of those conversations a friend brought up A Master of Djinn, and based on her recommendation and my previous experience with the author’s work I immediately added the book to my Libby queue.  Picking up a bit after the initial […]

“If there’s a bright center to the universe, you’re on the planet that it’s farthest from.” Luke Skywalker

Star Wars: Exploring Tatooine - An Illustrated Guide by Riley Silverman

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When the first Star Wars movie came out in May 1977, I was 8 years old. I don’t know why I went to see it. I was horrifying my parents with my love of Charlie’s Angels (I remember nothing about the plots, only the hair and the costumes). I was entirely earthbound. But somehow I saw the movie and fell in love. My friends and I went from playing Charlie’s Angels to playing Charlie’s Angels in Star Wars (still horrifying my parents with that) because […]

The Whirling Desert Queen of Rajasthan

Desert Queen by Jyoti Rajan Gopal

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Well HOT DARN!  (Only I was not saying darn!) Desert Queen has probably been written for several reasons. The first, to give representation to the people of India. But also, to show how one middle class boy would grow up and show the world how to bend perceptions. Queen Harish was the alter ego of a boy from a small community, who became an orphan young, and left with two sisters to raise. His love of dance and his talents would make him dare to […]

A Summer Cordial

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

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I did it! I completed reading the book that had been on my Goodreads “Want to Read” list longest. I don’t really remember adding Dandelion Wine on June 14, 2010. I added that along with 32 other books in a liking frenzy. (See my full list from that day at the bottom.) I probably was reading a list of books to make sure you’ve read by the time you were 45. I’ve only read 4 of them, but I’ve read Good Omens twice. Let’s call […]



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