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Who Can Truly Know Her When There Are No Others Of Her Kind?

The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathon Snipes

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Rivers Solomon’s The Deep is a beautiful and gut wrenching novella. At this current time, I don’t think I could have read it if I hadn’t listened to Daveed Diggs’ narration. Diggs and his fellow clppng’s William Hutson and Jonathon Snipes, hold author credits because the novella is based a song they wrote, commissioned by NPR’s This American Life for “We Are in the Future” an episode about Afrofuturism. Clppng’s song was an homage to Detroit’s Drexciya who imagined an underwater utopia created by the […]

Big time catch up post

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell

The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

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I am WAY behind. I have a stand-alone review planned for my favorite book of the year and another group review for a series on the way but I needed to knock these out and get my count down a bit. How the gracious did I get so backlogged. Let’s take these one-by-one because they really don’t have a whole lot in common. Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert Reading Red, White & Royal Blue earlier this year turned me around a bit on […]

They say this is the first lunar eclipse in ten years….

Alienation by Ines Estrada

Red Snow by Susumu Katsumata

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Our Cats are More Famous than Us by Yuko Ota; Ananth Hirsh

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This is another of my posts of randomly selected graphic novels, comics, novellas, comic strip collections, and other books of that sort from the local library. Alienation – 3/5 Stars This graphic novel takes places in the future of the world in about 35 or so years. We are situated geographically in Alaska, overlooking oil and gas production lines, but we are situated thematically and emotionally in the mental and emotional state of a human woman living near the oil fields, and living her life […]

Announcing 2020 #CannonBookClub Topics and Dates!

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For CBR12 we’re planning three book clubs that we hope will inspire you to pick up a new to you book or reread something and consider it again. On March 20th and 21st we’ll celebrate five years of #CannonBookClub and revisit our first book – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. We have lots of new faces, as well as plenty of us who have been around since Cannonball Read 7 so it seemed the perfect time to revisit one of my favorite books […]

I taught you better than to open doors you can’t close

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

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Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts is yet another great example of the kind of book I would have missed had I not started reading more speculative fiction and diversifying the voices in my library. That would have been a pity, because this complex, powerful novel may very well end up at the top of my 2019 favorites list. After Earth suffered an unnamed cataclysm 300 years ago, the remnants of humanity were crowded onto the spaceship Matilda and launched toward some long-forgotten destination. Humanity […]



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