My Heart and Other Black Holes is the debut novel from Jasmine Warga from last year. It is a YA novel that deals with two depressed protagonists in some of the truest descriptions of being a teenager with depression that I have ever read. This is a good book, but probably not for everyone. I was alerted to this book’s existence by the five star review from Annie for Cannonball Read 7. While she and I agree on some points, I only rated this book […]
In Which I Name Drop My Fellow Cannonballers
We have ellepkay to thank for bringing Act Like It to our attention at the beginning of the new year. I am somewhere near the seventh (maybe more?) person to review this one, and we’re all pretty universally in love with this debut author’s contemporary work. Nailing good contemporary romance is not easy. There are so many ways for it all to go wrong, to feel unnatural, or cliché, or any number of other possible problems. What I find myself most struck with (because trying […]
Storycraft 101
Last year’s Book Riot Read Harder challenge has been the gift that keeps on giving for me. I’ve cruised through over a dozen audiobooks after having struggled to enjoy them in the past, and I’ve broken past my own weird hang-ups about graphic novels, narratives, and memoirs. It still isn’t a seamless process for me to read these works, which probably affects my rating of them, so do take my three-and-a-half-star rating with a grain of salt. Yesknopemaybe rated this book at five stars and […]
“I had to do something,” she said. “I couldn’t just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.”
I devoured this book in one sitting. There’s really not much else you need to know about it. It isn’t my favorite Bridgerton book (book #1 so far would be An Offer From a Gentleman), but it is quite good. Eloise Bridgerton is the fifth child of Bridgerton brood and 1824 finds her firmly on the shelf after turning down many marriage proposals, and newly alone following the marriage of her best friend and fellow spinster Penelope. At loose ends, Eloise decides to accept an […]
Show, Don’t Hide
Well, it wasn’t the best of books. It wasn’t the worst of books (but in the end, the one I selected as the worst of 2016 for me). It is definitely somewhere in the middle. I am not going to do an in depth review of The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev since we are going to be having a group discussion on March 1 for the Cannonball Book Club Reads Romance and I want to save topics to talk about then. But let’s do […]
Cannonball Book Club Reads Romance Discussion Topics
Book Club discussion has begun! Join us on the discussion post. We’re just over 10 days away from our March 1st Book Club conversation about The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev. I’ve just finished up reading it myself, and I definitely have some mixed feelings about the novel (I’ve posted mine already, but feel free to wait if you prefer). Below I’ve gathered a few possible discussion topics for March 1st, if you have more ideas for topics of discussion, please just leave them below […]
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