Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Excellent world building that felt a little cut short

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Binti: Sacred Fire by Nnedi Okorafor

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BINGO - Star Binti runs away from her home, her family, her people, and even her planet to attend school. She is hesitant to leave even though she knows there are incredible opportunities waiting for her at Oomza University. With only a jar of otjize, a clay mixture from her community that she … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

Different Scandals in Different Places

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

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Bingo 11: Scandal A Strange and Stubborn Endurance opens with a scandal of sorts (or at least the inciting incident that gets the plot going does), and there’s a fear and use of gossip that gets brought up and/or used off and on throughout the story. There is a content warning at the beginning … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:63 · Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

Who-dunnit and who are these people?

The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison

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Bingo 10: Questions One main question of the Thara Celehar novellas is “who dunnit?’ as well as ‘why’, and that’s true of The Grief of Stones too, but also, there’s a bit of a twist about 2/3 of the way through which also adds “what will {x} do now?” Being a Witness for the Dead, someone who … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:62 · Genres: Fantasy, Mystery · Tags: , , , , , ·

Empathy and Diversity in Xenobiology

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

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Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series have been a real balm for the troubled soul. If anyone can serve up hopeful and joyous fiction in the manner of a good cuppa tea and scones, its Chambers. So it is slightly sad that find that The Galaxy, and the Ground Within  will be the last of the Wayfarers … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , ·

The urgent truth of our history is all around us if we choose to listen.

We’ve Got to Try by Beto O’Rourke

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When I saw the title of Beto O’Rourke’s new book, We’ve Got to Try, I thought, “yes, exactly! What are we trying?” We are trying to save democracy by rescuing voting rights from people who want to suppress it. That’s important, right? I think it’s important. I think it’s important to try and keep … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:90 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

“Which is more mysterious, more inexplicable, dying or/staying alive?”

Earthling: Poems by James Longenbach

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Me: "Oh, it's called Earthling, like what aliens called humans in 1950s sci-fi, lol!" James Logenbach: "Earthling is one of the oldest words in the English language, our original word for ploughman, a keeper of the earth. In poems simultaneously ordinary and otherworldly..." Logenbach's … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:29 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: , ·


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