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Waiting for the end of the world

I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

September 7, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

Official book description: Seven days. Seven days. The Earth might end in seven days.   When news stations start reporting that Earth has been contacted by a planet named Alma, the world is abuzz with rumors that the alien entity is giving mankind only few days to live before they hit the kill switch on civilization.   For high school truant Jesse Hewitt, though, nothing has ever felt permanent. Not the guys he hooks up with. Not the jobs his underpaid mom works so hard […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Aliens, CBR Book Club, cbr12, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, LGBTQIA, Malin, The Future is Queer, Young Adult

Malin's CBR12 Review No:56 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #Science Fiction, Aliens, CBR Book Club, cbr12, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, LGBTQIA, Malin, The Future is Queer, Young Adult ·
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“I don’t want you to keep downplaying the hurt you feel like you’re not even human. You keep it up – all these lies to yourself, to other people, and soon you’re not going to know who you are.” (CBR12 Bingo)

I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

July 5, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

My Cannonball Bingo tradition is to sit down with the square descriptions and game plan out options for what books to read for each category. I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi could qualify for several squares (this is her debut published October 2019, we read it for CBR Book Club) but I’m using it for UnCannon. The ‘Canon’ is often made up of books written by old, white men and the goal of this square is to read as far from […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: CannonBookClub, cbr12bingo, faintingviolet, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, The Future is Queer, UnCannon, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR12 Review No:34 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: CannonBookClub, cbr12bingo, faintingviolet, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, The Future is Queer, UnCannon, we need diverse books ·
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Book Club Discussion: The Future is Queer!

June 19, 2020 by faintingviolet 19 Comments

The time has arrived, I’ve been looking forward to The Future is Queer book club since we hatched the idea late last year. What better way to celebrate Pride than to focus on some speculative fiction by and about LGBTQ folks. Whether you read one or all four of our options, I hope you find something below that sparks your interest so we can continue to enjoy talking about books together. On to the boilerplate: ground rules remain the same as they always have. For […]

Filed Under: Book Club Tagged With: Becky Chambers, book club, Cannon Book Club, CannonBookClub, Farah Naz Rishi, M.K. England, Rivers Solomon, The Future is Queer

Genres: Book Club · Tags: Becky Chambers, book club, Cannon Book Club, CannonBookClub, Farah Naz Rishi, M.K. England, Rivers Solomon, The Future is Queer ·
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The Aliens are Just a Catalyst for These Deeply Human Journeys

I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

June 7, 2020 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

Number 2 of my reads for the #CannonBookClub this June, and it’s a bit of a different tone from my previous read of The Disasters, but I have really enjoyed both so far! I Hope You Get This Message begins after earth unscrambles a message from an alien planet, stating that they will be deliberating whether or not to terminate earth within 1 week. While most of the world scrambles to bunker down or descends into chaos, this novel focuses on  three teenagers each with […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: CannonBookClub, Farah Naz Rishi, The Future is Queer

Lisa Bee's CBR12 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: CannonBookClub, Farah Naz Rishi, The Future is Queer ·
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Being a teenager is hard enough without the threat of total annihilation looming on the horizon.

I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

April 27, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 3 Comments

Jesse, Cate, and Adeem are all just trying to survive- even before they catch wind of an alien planet’s message to earth: you will all be destroyed in seven days. Our main trio holds a treasure trove of teen torments between them: absent parents, the desire to be loved, the inability to accept care, the need to be anywhere other than where they are. Everyone is attempting to find someone who does not necessarily want to be found, and I was worried that we’d being […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, Aliens, coming-of-age, debut novel, end of the world, family drama, Farah Naz Rishi, hafez, Islam, LGBTQ, mental illness, radio, road trip, rumi, teens, The Future is Queer, YA

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:39 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, Aliens, coming-of-age, debut novel, end of the world, family drama, Farah Naz Rishi, hafez, Islam, LGBTQ, mental illness, radio, road trip, rumi, teens, The Future is Queer, YA ·
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