Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Lives in Austin, Texas. She/her. Loves reading books, writing about books and talking about books. On the CBR Board. May send you an email. Thinking about new challenges. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Emmalita's Quick Questions interview.)

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But how do I get from learning his name to getting a kiss so I can possibly break this time-loop curse?

Time Loops and Meet Cutes by Jackie Lau

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I started reading Jackie Lau in 2019. While that may not seem like much, but it’s been a long 6 years, and Lau’s books consistently bring me joy. Time Loops and Meet Cutes might be the best book Jackie Lau has written yet. It has classic Jackie Lau elements: an FMC who is all in her head and trying to figure out this curveball life has thrown, complicated family, the glorious food of Toronto, and Lau’s own unique author voice. This is the first book […]

A Nymph, An Immortal Pirate, And the God of Love and all Growing Things go do Diplomacy

Daughter of Tides by Kit Rocha

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Kit Rocha is near the top of my list when I need books that will distract me and feed my soul some hope and joy so that I can go back out into the world. Seriously, if you want to read about community building and mutual aid with a generous helping of queer normativity and sex positivity, Kit Rocha has several different series that will give you that. I pretty much always have a Kit Rocha book open. Daughter of Tides starts a new duology […]

Not even our patron saint, Juan Luis Guerra of the bachata hits, could encapsulate the conundrum that erupted whenever Orlando and I were on our own.

Ms V’s Hot Girl Summer by A.H. Cunningham

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You know when a character at the beginning of a romance is about to commit to someone who is “the mature, responsible” choice, but clearly the wrong choice, that their life is about to be flipped on its head. Trinidad Velasquez’s mature and stable casual situationship has announced he is considering courting her and perhaps ending his other casual situationships. Even before he comes clean about his motivations (a couples only business retreat), I was shaking my head. Trinidad considers bringing her toys along to […]

The flavor of cabernet sauvignon had only ever been just okay until Ethan tasted it on Taylor Frost’s lips.

Once Upon You and Me by Timothy Janovsky

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Timothy Janovsky has become one of my most anticipated authors. His book The Merriest Misters is one of my favorite romances. Once Upon You and Me is not quite at that level, but I enjoyed it. It has Janovsky’s charm and excellent storytelling. Ethan is a divorced dad managing Storybook Endings Resort, the fairytale themed family resort in the Catskills that he used to own with his ex-wife, Amy. Taylor is Amy’s personal assistant, who has come to the resort to get it ready for […]

She had come to save this world and it was already dead.

The Blighted Stars by Megan E. O’Keefe

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I wasn’t really looking for something dark and twisty, but I fell into listening to Ciaran Saward narrate Megan E. O’Keefe’s The Blighted Stars and it was exactly what I wanted. I knew nothing going in, so I’m going to try to say as little as possible while also getting you interested enough to go listen. Tarquin Mercator is a space Prince, the only son of one of the universe’s ruling families. He is an academic, a geologist, who has mostly not been involved in […]

Chess was almost like getting to know a lover. It felt that intimate and, at times, that brutal.

Bold Moves by Emma Barry

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  I have loved Emma Barry’s writing since I first read the Fly Me to the Moon series she wrote with Genevieve Turner starting back in 2015. I just vibe with her writing. All of her characters are complex, fabulously messy and complicated, but her female characters have tended to be a little more emotionally mature than their love interest. With Bold Moves she has given us Scarlett, who is unapologetically and strategically difficult. I love Scarlett so much. So. Much! And so does Jaime, […]



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