Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


What if first contact didn’t involve any actual contacting?

Rosewater by Tade Thompson

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This was an interesting story with an interesting protagonist. My favorite part was that the main character kept insisting he wasn’t a hero, and acting accordingly. Very much chaotic neutral, with a little bit of a good guy slant. My least favorite part was the time jumping. I got a little confused … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:4 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

The lifelong physical and mental effects of trauma

What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo

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I am on a roll with the books from NPR's Best Books List. My latest is What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma (2022) by Stephanie Foo. With my job, we inevitably run into a number of people who have suffered significant trauma. Sometimes they tell us, and sometimes we don't know … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: ·

I do love the cover of this book, especially paired with the title. It makes me laugh.

The Feeling of Falling in Love by Mason Deaver

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This was a cute story and well written, but I didn't connect to it emotionally as much as I did with Deaver's first book, I Wish You All the Best. Deaver still plays with themes of gender nonconformity and coming of age while queer and discovering your sexuality and gender identity, but their main … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

Gender Roles Are Bullshit

Down Among The Sticks And Bones by Seanan McGuire

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Down Among the Sticks and Bones is the Second Book in Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children Series and I loved it even more than the first. This novella gives us the backstory of Jack and Jill (formally named Jacqueline and Jillian), twin sisters who were raised to have very specific gender roles, … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: , , ·

Poūkahangatus (pronounced “Pocahontas”)

Poukahangatus: Poems by Tayi Tibble

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CBR15Passport, other country Tayi Tibble is a young woman from New Zealand. They are pretty, smart, serious, funny and did I mention young? She was born in 1995 (I have shoes older than her). Therefore, what does a not yet thirty-year-old know about life? Well, if Poukahangatus: Poems is any … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:63 · Genres: Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion, Romance · Tags: , , , , ·

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (1)

Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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"The Anglo-Americans' settlers' violent break from Britain in the late eighteenth century paralleled their search-and-destroy annihilation of Delaware, Cherokee, Muskogee, Seneca, Mohawk, Shawnee, and Miami, during which they slaughtered families without distinction of age or gender, and expanded … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:45 · Genres: History · Tags: ·


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