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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Hands-Down My Favorite TITLE of 2022

Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by Grace E. Lavery

April 6, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 5 Comments

Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis Let that title sink in. It’s so great! Also great: hearing Grace Lavery say it aloud herself. If you have any interest in diving into this piece (and holy moly, you should!) I HIGHLY recommend listening to the audio performance- and I do mean performance! Grace, Danny Lavery, and Marc Vietor do not skimp on the drama and pomp. Grace, in particular, has a lovely elastic and elegant lilt- cliché of clichés, but I do think I […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir Tagged With: daniel lavery, essays, Grace E. Lavery, identity, LGBTQIA, LGTBQIA author, Literature, Love, Marc Vietor, porn, queer, read by the author, sex, social commentary, trans

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:20 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir · Tags: daniel lavery, essays, Grace E. Lavery, identity, LGBTQIA, LGTBQIA author, Literature, Love, Marc Vietor, porn, queer, read by the author, sex, social commentary, trans ·
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A cray-sea life

You Brought Me The Ocean by Alex Sanchez

March 29, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

You Brought Me The Ocean. Seems simple enough of a title. The story that Alex Sanchez created is not as simple as that. This is a fun book about love and being true to yourself. Two characters quickly find love with each other, but their small community and local high school classmate will challenge that. Also, friends will come into question, what is family, and what are the markings on one of the young teen. Jake Hyde is drawn to the ocean, but his mother’s […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Romance, Sports, Young Adult Tagged With: Alex Sanchez, family, fathers and mothers, friendships, glbtq, identity, Julie Maroh, secrets, Social Theme, superheroes

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:130 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Romance, Sports, Young Adult · Tags: Alex Sanchez, family, fathers and mothers, friendships, glbtq, identity, Julie Maroh, secrets, Social Theme, superheroes ·
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“The ace world is not an obligation. Nobody needs to identify, nobody is trapped, nobody needs to stay forever and pledge allegiance. The words are gifts. If you know which terms to search, you know how to find others who might have something to teach.” (Bingo Blackout & Cannonball!)

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

October 30, 2021 by faintingviolet 9 Comments

Books have answers, and that is one of the reasons I love them. The past few years I’ve spent some time digging into me, and how I work, and how much of what I have presented to the outside world was authentic, and how much was what I had been expected to do. I had some knowledge of aces and asexuality before reading this particularly as one of my friends is ace and has been out for at least the decade I’ve known her, probably […]

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: ace, Angela Chen, asexuality, cbr13bingo, identity, investigative nonfiction, Own voices, pandemic, read harder challenge, read women, sexual identity, Social Justice, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:52 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: ace, Angela Chen, asexuality, cbr13bingo, identity, investigative nonfiction, Own voices, pandemic, read harder challenge, read women, sexual identity, Social Justice, we need diverse books ·
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Extra Reading

Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews

Players by Don DeLillo

A Stained White Radiance by James Lee Burke

Louise Hathcock: Queen of the State Line Mob by Robert Broughton

Lemons Never Lie by Richard Stark

June 7, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

I’m trying to document all of the books I read on here to better hit my cannonball numbers. These are ones I’ve been meaning to upload into combined reviews but haven’t. Some are good, some are eh, but most of them just didn’t merit a lot of words from me at the time I finished them for various reasons. Who Is Maud Dixon? *** For a similar identity-based thriller I read last year, a reviewer derisively pegged it as The Talented Mr. Rip-off. I didn’t […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: A Stained White Radiance, Alexandra Andrews, Dave Robicheaux, Don DeLillo, Donald Westlake, Faction, heist, identity, James Lee Burke, Lemons Never Lie, Louise Hathcock, Louisiana, mystery, New York City, players, postmodern, Richard Stark, Robert Broughton, Satire, thriller, true crime, Who Is Maud Dixon?

Jake's CBR13 Review No:84 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: A Stained White Radiance, Alexandra Andrews, Dave Robicheaux, Don DeLillo, Donald Westlake, Faction, heist, identity, James Lee Burke, Lemons Never Lie, Louise Hathcock, Louisiana, mystery, New York City, players, postmodern, Richard Stark, Robert Broughton, Satire, thriller, true crime, Who Is Maud Dixon? ·
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It Runs in the Family

Everything My Mother Taught Me by Alice Hoffman

Can You Feel This? by Julie Orringer

The Lion's Den by Anthony Marra

Zenith Man by Jennifer Haigh

The Weddings by Alexander Chee

January 13, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Another year, another onslaught of bits and bobs to keep me from sitting down and giving my undivided attention to a hefty book! Everything My Mother Taught Me 3/5 Dang it Alice Hoffman, misadventures at lighthouses are my catnip! Lighthouse Keeper was my dream job when I was younger- big thanks to Ahab’s Wife- it’s a  lonesome and perilous career but also pretty cool! I was a huge Hoffman fan in high school, but I drifted away over the last 15 years or so. I dipped […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Alexander Chee, Alice Hoffman, amazon original stories, Amazon Originals, amazon originals inheritance, Anthony Marra, family, identity, inheritance, Jennifer Haigh, Julie Orringer, Marriage, Motherhood, trauma

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Alexander Chee, Alice Hoffman, amazon original stories, Amazon Originals, amazon originals inheritance, Anthony Marra, family, identity, inheritance, Jennifer Haigh, Julie Orringer, Marriage, Motherhood, trauma ·
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Narfna, thank you for reviewing Ace, the book I didn’t know I needed.

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About, Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

January 4, 2021 by Dome'Loki 23 Comments

During Cannonball Bingo, I read The Sound of Stars in which a character identifies as ace or maybe demi-ace.  The use of ace as an identifier was unfamiliar to me and a google search later brought me to the definition of ‘ace’ being a shorthand for asexual.  My initial thought was that was interesting as I hadn’t been familiar with the term but then ‘ace’ got tucked away. Then I read Narfna’s review  and had the realization that asexuality was something I needed to look further […]

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: ace, Angela Chen, cbr12, Dome'Loki, identity, non fiction

Dome'Loki's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: ace, Angela Chen, cbr12, Dome'Loki, identity, non fiction ·
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