Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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READ. THIS. BOOK. (Johnny Appleseed)

Johnny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

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I’m using this as my “They/She/He” square in CBR13Bingo. The thesis of this review is: read this book! I’m going to do my best to describe it to you, but Joshua Whitehead’s words are so much more beautiful than anything I can come up with.  This novel is gorgeous!  Johnny is a young, Two-Spirit teenager living on the “rez” near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. And throughout the novel, Johnny tells of his experiences with becoming. With his supportive mother and his beloved kokum (grandmother), he explores […]

“That is the significant part of telling our own stories: by doing so, we demonstrate our cultural continuance.”

Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection Volumes 1-3 by Hope Nicholson, Elizabeth LaPensee, and Michael Sheyahshe, editors

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Cbr13bingo rep That quote in the title of these reviews comes from Michael Sheyahshe’s introduction to Moonshot: Volume 1 and it serves as a rallying cry for all three volumes. The Moonshot series, published in 2015, 2017 and 2019, is, as the title says, a collection of comics written and drawn by Indigenous writers and artists. These volumes were also published and distributed by Avani and Inhabit Education Books, which are Inuit owned. The reason for the volumes is pretty obvious — Indigenous people have […]

Deadly! (It’s a good thing)

Top End Girl by Miranda Tapsell

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Miranda Tapsell is a proud Larrakia and Tiwi woman from Australia’s Northern Territory, growing up in Darwin and the small town of Jabiru in the Kakadu National Park.  Her memoir is fairly light and breezy, but doesn’t shy away from the complexities of being a biracial Indigenous woman in a country and industry with a lot to learn about treating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures with the respect they deserve. Miranda always loved to perform, but it wasn’t until Arrerente and Arabana […]



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