Cannonball Read 18

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“I googled ‘monkey brothel’, had an existential crisis, and eventually found the details I wanted in a New Yorker article titled ‘Monkey Business’.”

Sex Power Money by Sara Pascoe

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Frequently, I find myself disagreeing with Sara Pascoe- but it’s not a problem! She’s funny, curious, and well-researched, and she makes no claims about being objective. She leans right into the fact that she her opinions are colored by her past experiences, and she remains open to other ideas and beliefs even if they do not mesh with hers. She is open and honest about her past experiences- especially those that pertain to sex, power, and money. Some are truly harrowing, yet she is a […]

Men Suck

Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino

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In one of those “I wish I had all the time in the world” fits I occasionally throw, I wish I could learn Japanese. My aptitude for languages is terrible; I’ve never tried learning anything remotely far east Asian. But I want to do it just to read Natsuo Kirino’s amazing books in their original form. Like her stellar work Out, which was one of the best things I read last year and would have been the best thing I read most other years, Natsuo Kirino […]

Hustlers, Baby

Uptown Thief by Aya de León

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Aya de León is having kind of a mini-moment within mystery/crime circles. When the movie Hustlers came out back in September, influencers in the crime fiction world recommended de León’s work as it has thematic similarities to the popular film: underpaid women stuck at dead end sex worker jobs (with the resulting cultural stigma) who develop a side hustle in order to make ends meet. Both side hustles involve soaking rich white men and both the film and de León’s book portray the women as some sort […]

A gender-swapped Pretty Woman featuring a South Asian neuro-atypical heroine who works in STEM. Also – Cannonball!

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Stella Lane loves mathematics and equations and is extremely good at her job, which involves creating algorithms to predict customer purchases, It makes her highly valued by her employer and she makes more money than she has any idea what to do with. Stella has Asperger’s, which means she’s on the Autism Spectrum, and has not had a lot of success when dating in the past. She believes this is her fault (it’s not, she’s clearly dated some total loser creeps). So when her mother declares […]



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