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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There is a universal truth: we all panic when the toilet overflows.

Safe and Sound, a renter-friendly guide to home repair by Mercury Stardust

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This is a Mercury Stardust, the Trans Handy Ma’am, fan account. With her bright blue hair, great big laugh, and down to earth tips, she has helped me work through a number of home repairs. I know how to use a toilet plunger now! I’m pretty sure any scene of my dad teaching me how to do a home repair looked a lot like Moira teaching David how to fold in the cheese, but with a lot more crying (me)and throwing things (my dad, who […]

A queer retelling of Pretty Woman

Boyfriend Subscription by Steven Salvatore

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Steven Salvatore described his adult romance debut, Boyfriend Subscription, as a queer retelling of Pretty Woman. I love a queer retelling, but Pretty Woman was never one of my favorite movies. I never believed that Richard Gere’s character was going to value Julia Robert’s character beyond the end of the movie. Once the glow of the new relationship wore off, I was pretty sure he was going to hold having been a sex worker against her. Salvatore takes care of that issue by making Cole, the […]

Lightning Strike

What is Love by Jen Comfort

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Jen Comfort became an autobuy author for me when I read Midnight Duet, her utterly bananas and brilliant gender-flipped retelling of The Phantom of the Opera. Her banter is top notch. Her characters are substantial. Teddy Ferguson falls in love with Maxine Hart after she steals his lucky donut, takes one bite, corrects his trivia factoid, and then throws the rest of the donut away like a beautiful agent of chaos. I also fell in love with Maxine at that moment. There is, I think, […]

Never in her thirty-five years of being Black did Helen Beck expect to be in the middle of a forest with Enya playing on battery powered speakers.

I’ll Come Back for You by Charish Reid

I’ll Conjure for You by Charish Reid

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With The Beck Sister Hauntings series, Charish Reid has entered a new phase, and I love it. I’ll Come Back for You and I’ll Conjure for You are creepy, atmospheric, funny, heartfelt, and spicy. Horror isn’t my preferred genre, but I’ll follow an author I trust out of my comfort zone. Mix in romance and it’s expectation of a Happily Ever After, and I’m willing to test my anxiety tolerance. Whitney and Helen Beck have inherited their late grandmother’s bed and breakfast in upstate New York. […]

“My name’s Willa, and I believe I have your dog.”

Do Me a Favor by Cathy Yardley

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Do Me a Favor begins as all great books do, with a dog. Okay, that’s probably not true of all great books, but this one does begin with Willa finding a dog in her garage during a thunderstorm. The dog, named Noodle, belongs to Hudson’s semi-adult son. Hudson comes to get him (a couple of times because Noodle loves a garage adventure) and Hudson and Willa start to connect. I really enjoyed Cathy Yardley’s Ponto Beach series, but I am loving her books with older […]

It’s going on the comfort read menu with 5 chili peppers next to it for spice level

Meegan: A Holidate for Hire by Rebekah Weatherspoon

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I started this review 6 weeks ago while I was experiencing a bout of seasonal depression that was more serious than I realized. I thought I was going to be able to write a review, because I’ve always been able to get a review of an arc written. While the thoughts and feelings were there, the words wouldn’t move from my brain to the screen in a coherent order. I had received an advance reader copy from the author and have been feeling a lot […]



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