Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Star Wars: Doctor Aphra Vol. 1 - Aphra by Kieron Gillen

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When I think of Star Wars, I think of space, lightsabers, and Darth Vader. I know some of the various versions of the Star Wars universe have dealt with the history of said universe, but I think of Star Wars as the future (even if it was in a galaxy a long time ago). This is why it was fun to read about Doctor Aphra in the first volume (collecting issues #1-6) of the graphic novel series that bears her name. She is a Star […]

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“If there’s a bright center to the universe, you’re on the planet that it’s farthest from.” Luke Skywalker

Star Wars: Exploring Tatooine - An Illustrated Guide by Riley Silverman

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When the first Star Wars movie came out in May 1977, I was 8 years old. I don’t know why I went to see it. I was horrifying my parents with my love of Charlie’s Angels (I remember nothing about the plots, only the hair and the costumes). I was entirely earthbound. But somehow I saw the movie and fell in love. My friends and I went from playing Charlie’s Angels to playing Charlie’s Angels in Star Wars (still horrifying my parents with that) because […]

Found Family is Just My Favorite Trope, Forever

It's Called A Flush by Deniigiq

Flush: Chatlog by Deniigiq

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My brother is an OG-we-had-the-Darth-Vadar-Cases-for-our-action-figures Star Wars fan. One of the only things my brother says he will never forgive my mom for is falling asleep in the theater when she watched A New Hope for the first time: In her defense, she was 16, and leaving the house childless for the first time since my brother was born, so she was pretty tired. She remembers the words crawling up the screen, a ship, and that’s all folks. New moms everywhere can understand. I know […]

Who wants to get drunk together and talk about the Bricklayer?

The Fall of Babel by Josiah Bancroft

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  In my previous review of Josiah Bancroft’s The Hod King,   the third instalment in the Books of Babel series, I mentioned that due to its darker tone and shocker of a cliffhanger, the third book appeared to be ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ of Thomas Senlin’s story.  So now that I’ve read that The Fall of Babel, the final instalment in the series, can I say that this is Bancroft’s ‘Return of the Jedi?’ Not, really, no. I have to confess that with this last […]

finally felt like getting back into some fanfic!

A path to broken stars by stellardarlings

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Hmm I didn’t even realize it until I started writing reviews but this is, actually, the third Beauty and the Beast retelling I read in a row. What can I say? It is clearly my favorite type of fairy tale, imprinted upon me due to my youthful love of the Disney classic. When your other choices are “sleeps for the best parts (x2),” “wears a shoe,” “gives up her entire world for the dude,” it’s not surprising that Belle “I read and yell back and […]

“The Resistance was the kiss of death, to friends and allies alike.”

Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse

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The reading experience of Resistance Reborn is a story of two halves for me. I enjoyed Rebecca Roanhorse’s writing, I find the way she uses a sparring amount of words to build a mood, and from a mood a setting to be incredibly effective, which I’ve enjoyed from her before. On the other hand, though, I wasn’t floored by the actual story covered within the pages of this book. Broadly, in this novel, Poe Dameron, General Leia Organa, Rey, and Finn struggle to rebuild the […]



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