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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Sometimes you have to really f*ck something up before you can fully appreciate it.

The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen

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Twyla and Frank are both 53 years old. They are solidly middle aged protagonists who look and act like people in their mid 50s. As a mid 50’s person myself, I loved this. Love, love, loved it! There were also other things I loved, but I really need you to know that a 53 year old woman is wooed by two men, befriends dragons and saves the day. Life for the Tanrian Marshals has quieted down since Hart Ralston solved the drudge problem in The […]

Cleo couldn’t believe that she was about to spend her last moments being insulted by a dead woman in a computer

The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton

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Emily Hamilton’s The Stars Too Fondly is a fun sapphic scifi debut with some flaws. It started strong. I enjoyed the story and the characters. However, I found myself putting it down when we got to the unknown narrator interstitials. The bits of communication between the crew members who disappeared didn’t bother me, but the unknown, omniscient narrator who popped in annoyed me and broke my reading flow. That’s very much a me issue, and my frustration is as much with myself as with the […]

She had even vaguely felt that it reflected ill upon her to have attracted an assassin of such incompetence, however grateful for that lack of skill she might be.

The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh by Claudia Gray

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Having been thrown together by happenstance to investigate murder in the first two books, Mr. Jonathan Darcy and Miss Juliet Tilney are instead commanded to attend to Lady Catherine de Bourgh and stop the murder attempts being made upon her life. Young Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney are pleased to be able to see each other again and determined to catch the culprit before they are successful in their attempts. Their fathers are far less enthusiastic, though the do agree to travel to Rosings Park […]

All I’ve wanted these past few days is to get as close to you as you’ve somehow gotten to me.

Take Me Home by Melanie Sweeney

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Melanie Sweeney’s Take Me Home is a wonderfully assured debut romance. There’s frenemies to lovers, a road trip, only one bed, a promise to not catch feelings if they just mess around over the holidays, and that emotional growth spurt that happens in your mid twenties. Hazel and Ash are such lovely characters to spend time with – funny, smart, generous, and doing their best to be good people. They are both adults, doing adult things, taking care of their adult lives, but kind of still […]

Ask yourself, “what do I want to do with my one wild and precious life?”

Hers for the Weekend by Helena Greer

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I have been waiting for Tara Sloane Chadwick to gracelessly fall on her ass in love since meeting her in Season of Love. She is an ice queen lawyer, determined to always do the right things, to fit in perfectly with Charleston’s old money society so she can take it down from the inside. She’s looking for a lesbian marriage of convenience while she politely dismantles the carceral system. Tara wants to use her wealth and privilege to make the world better while keeping her […]

There’s no predicting when a heart will open up

Change of Heart by Kate Canterbary

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In Change of Heart, Drs Whitney Aldritch and Meri Mercer hold themselves to the highest standards of behavior except for the two weeks a year when they dress up, crash weddings, and shed their very adult, important responsibilities. They make up names, never crash a small wedding, always bring a gift, and never sleep with someone in the wedding party. Whit breaks that rule at the last crashed wedding of the summer when she locks eyes with the Best Man at a very large, fancy […]



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