It has been a couple of years since I read any poetry, and the last time was also at the behest of the fine folks over at Book Riot and their annual Read Harder Challenge. I don’t know if I’m going to manage to complete this year’s challenge by the end of December – I know what books I am going to read for the remaining challenges, but I don’t know that I’ll be able to fit them all in. But I wasn’t going to […]
Who Wants to Gift a Book? It is Holiday Book Exchange Time!
Note: The sign-up deadline is Tues Nov. 28. Bodhi Day. Krampusnacht. Longest Night. Twelve Days of Christmas. Hogswatch. Las Posadas. Pancha Ganapati. Feast of Winter Veil.Saturnalia. Hanukkah. Winter Solstice. Yule. Festivus. Watch Night. New Year’s Eve. Hogmanay. Soyal. We’re in the holiday time of year! My lovely Cannonballers, are you looking for an excuse to share a little of that holiday cheer and do some spending through the Cannonball Read Buy Hole? (Remember, funds generated through the Buy Hole go to the American Cancer Society to fight cancer). […]
At the End, It All Comes Down to Choice. Final Thoughts on Harry Potter
We have reached the end of the road. We have journeyed through truth, learned about the past, had boulders change our paths forever, embraced the drama of the teenage years, we’ve experienced losses and found ways to grow from them, and seen love as an action spurs our heroes on their paths. Now, we watch it all come together as the forces of good battle to resist the forces of fear and hate. Before even embarking on this review, I have written over 11,000 words […]
Necessary Trouble
I try to give myself a healthy reading diet, and part of that diet is books from the point of view of people who do not experience the world the same way my privilege as a cis white woman allows. When I picked up March: Book One it felt in many ways a basic history, an introduction to world that I was already relatively familiar with, even though it was not my own. If Book One is a primer then Book Two is a call […]