Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I’d need a nap, but hey, you do you.

Best Served Hot by Amanda Elliot

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“I want to keep things anything but professional,” he said, voice low. It thrummed somewhere deep in my stomach. “I mean, unless you want to keep things professional.” I traced my own thumbs over his palms. They curled reflexively up into my hands. “I want you to stop saying the word professional. And thinking it.” I swallowed hard. Once I said this, there was no going back. But I didn’t want to go back. “I don’t want to keep things professional. At all.” “Then we’re […]

Loving you isn’t the right thing to do.

Luca (Gentlemen of the Emerald City Book 1) by L.A. Witt

Reluctant Rockstar: Reluctant Rockstar #1 by Francis Fox

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CBR16 Bingo: Scandal Luca (Gentlemen of the Emerald City Book 1) by L.A. Witt Three stars It’s the start of the off-season and Ethan is lonely. As a professional hockey player for the Seattle Breakers, dating is hard. However, being one of the few out players on his team, his dating life is closely watched. Since he’s on the road most of the time, he doesn’t have time to date, let alone meet someone he actually wants to date. Touch-starved and depressed, he opens up […]

Now I’m craving scones, tea, and a nap in a cozy railcar

The Mimicking of Known Successes: The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti #1 by Malka Older

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CBR16 Bingo: Earth Day A man vanishes off the platform on the edge of the planet. No one saw him leave but his sudden disappearance is noticed by the small community of people who call this sparsely populated platform home. Mossa, an official investigator, is sent to find out what happened to him. After her initial search turns up nothing but a small lead, she travels to Valdegeld and seeks out Pleiti, a classical Earth researcher and her ex-girlfriend. The story is told from Pleiti’s […]

My head is saying, “Fool, forget him.” My heart is saying, “Don’t let go.”

Sleep: London Love Book 4 by Sophia Soames

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Even though my stomach was churning, I felt in some kind of control, like I could still steer this situation home, dock it gently in a place where I could walk away unscathed. The problem was, I didn’t think I wanted to walk away unscathed. I wanted to hurt and bleed and heal and scream.” ― Sophia Soames, Sleep CBR16 Bingo: Dreams We met Mabel in Taste: London Love book 2. Mark and Mabel work as a team at The Clouds Westminster Hotel in central […]

What do we do about the terrible people in our lives? Mostly we keep loving them.

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

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I wished someone would invent an online calculator – the user would enter the name of an artist, whereupon the calculator would assess the heinousness of the crime versus the greatness of the art and spit out a verdict. A calculator is laughable, unthinkable. Yet our moral sense must be made to come into balance with our art-love. I wanted there to be a universal balance, a universal answer. ― Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma CBR16Bingo: Bananas We are living in an age where […]

When you reach the part where the heartaches come the hero would be me. But heroes often fail.

Partners in Crime by Alisha Rai

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CBR16Bingo: Fiasco We start in L.A. where Mira gets dumped by her boyfriend of six months. They were set up and started dating after their matchmaker, Hema Auntie, agreed to continue to work with Mira even though Mira had rejected the last twelve matches. Afterward, Mira is sitting in her car and attempting to breathe through yet another disappointment when she receives a call from an attorney’s office. This starts a series of events that has her reconnecting with one of her first matches, Naveen, […]



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