Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I am a born and bred southerner and transplant to the Midwest. I read because I NEED to (as a former English major, it's in the DNA) and because I'm possibly ignoring frigid temperatures. Until summer, and then I'll just be reading outside. I also enjoy cooking, witty banter, and cheese. All the cheese. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: ardaigle's Quick Questions interview.)

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The reality I would gladly trade in for our own.

Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

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On the book itself (or at least the Amazon page itself) this book is labeled as “pure love, pure joy, a pure escapist read.” YES. YES AND YEEEEEES. I received this gem of a book from my CBR Book Exchange buddy this year (thanks Bonnie!!) and was delighted. It is a GREAT book to be gifted. It was vaguely on my radar, but I didn’t have a real intention of reading it as I’m newer to romance but I read it in two freaking days […]

Satisfying conclusion to a fun romp.

Chasing Cassandra (The Ravenels #6) by Lisa Kleypas

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All right. Let’s just get this out the way: I’m not going to be completing my Cannonball this year. I’ve got a few reviews still up my sleeve, but mid 40s is as good as I’m going to get. But in any year, that’s okay, and in this year ESPECIALLY it is okay. I went from a 2 1/2 hours in the car each workday to, well, zero, which cut into my audiobook time. Plus ya know, the crippling pandemic and whatnot put a severe […]

Dying for Brain Candy? A cozy fine mystery series.

Dying for Chocolate (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #2) by Diane Mott Davidson

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I really don’t want to write 250 pages about this, but I’ll give it a whirl. This book was fine and the series is fine and I’ll probably keep reading them but they aren’t setting the world on fire, just a cozy mystery series. Goldy Bear is a caterer in somewhere Colorado raising her son, tangling with her abusive ass of an ex-husband, and of course, being also tangled up with people who die under mysterious circumstances. Tangled is a good word for this book […]

Rachel Bloom is the Rachel Bloom-iest and I lurv her

I Want To Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom

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If you do not know who Rachel Bloom is, she is the creator/star of the CW TV Show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.” If you don’t know what that TV show is, buckle up. It is a 45 minute musical comedy show wherein the titled “crazy ex-girlfriend” uproots her life and moves from New York to West Covina California NOT because she runs into her camp ex-boyfriend but because she wants a change of pace. (Except it’s totally because of Josh but also because she is on the […]

Book Exchange – Thanks bonnie!!!

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Sooo I ordered my Book Exchange gifts from Bookshop, shipped to me, so I could write a note in them to package. Yesterday when a box arrived from Bookshop I set it aside, today, I opened it to assemble my package to ship out and LO, BUT THE GIFT WAS FOR MEEEEEE! What a fun surprise! Also, I am pumped that I have read neither, and own neither, AND “Red White and Royal Blue” was on my to read list. Homegoing wasn’t on my radar, […]

Devil in a Black Dress (Belated Bingo – Money)

Devil's Daughter (The Ravenels, #5) by Lisa Kleypas

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I am relatively new to the genre of romance novel. And by that I mean I’m a newborn baby, because this is only the second one that I’ve ever read. Luckily a good friend of mine is an avid romance reader and she has been my romance sherpa making suggestions. The first book I read was also by Lisa Kleypas so I figured if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. This for me fit the Money bingo square in a number of ways. I mean, […]



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