Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I love to read, and I love to learn. I wish I were retired so I could spend more time on my random hobbies!

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A little luxurious wish fulfillment

The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

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CBR17Bingo: Green (for the green cover) By now I’ve read a number of books by Christina Lauren*, and they’ve been a little hit or miss for me. But it hasn’t stopped me from continuing to read their novels–always hoping for the best. The Paradise Problem (2024) wasn’t my absolute favorite book from them, but it’s up there and I had a good time. When Anna Green was pre-med in college, she was desperate for housing. A friend of hers hooked her up with Liam “West” […]

The screenwriters writing the rom-com are a rom-com

The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

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CBR17Bingo: Red (for the red in the cover) I can’t remember now how I found The Rom-Commers (2024) by Katherine Center, but I was probably just browsing my library’s catalog looking for an available Audiobook to listen to on my commute. This was an occasionally fun “rom-com” that played on some of the tropes of the genre for its own purposes. However, this wasn’t one of my favorites because the relationship wasn’t very memorable. Emma Wheeler is a talented writer who lives in the Northwest and is […]

This book hits a little too close to home

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

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CBR17Bingo: “O” for “Our” I’ve read a number of books by Celeste Ng, and I’ve even met her at a book reading. I’ve enjoyed all of her books, and I usually end up reading her new books when I see they are out. However, Our Missing Hearts (2022) came out a while ago, and I somehow missed it until now. I thought Our Missing Hearts was interesting, powerful, and memorable. Because it takes place in a world not exactly like our own (although eerily familiar), it is also […]

One day of space travel

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

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I stumbled upon Chris Hadfield’s Masterclass on space travel almost by accident. [Chris Hadfield is a Canadian test pilot and astronaut who has spent a considerable amount of time on the International Space Station.] I had a coworker who firmly believed the Earth was flat, and I firmly disagreed. But I also knew very little about space. So every time my coworker blurted out another random “fact” that he had picked up from the internet, I was baffled. Thus, Chris Hadfield’s Masterclass on space travel […]

We all know it’s bad for us

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

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I’m not sure when I first heard of The Anxious Generation (2024) by Jonathan Haidt, but it sounded interesting. So, I listened to it on audiobook from my library. This book discusses how much damage phones and social media have done to children as they grow up. It goes on to make recommendations for healthy ways for young people to engage with social media. Finally, Haidt points out that kids are watched over too closely. They need independence and free play in order to gain confidence and […]

Swimming, Stanford, and sex

Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

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Ali Hazelwood is churning out her feminist STEM romance novels so fast, that I’m barely keeping up. As soon as I discover another one is out, then I join the long waitlist at the library. Deep End (2025) did not disappoint. I loved that the book took place at Stanford with student athletes. I thought the story was interesting, and the chemistry between the leads was great. Was it a perfect book? No, but I enjoyed reading it and would give it four out of five stars. […]



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