Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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A reader and caffeine addict who consumes all sorts of books, some just more frequently than others. Your CBR Book Club Maven with over a decade of Cannonballing experience I believe in the beauty that comes from a common goal of reading, reviewing, and discussing. Also, Fuck Cancer. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: faintingviolet's Quick Questions interview.)

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“There’s some cursing. A lot. It’s kind of impressive.”

Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis

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To begin at the end, when I finished this novella, I immediately put in requests at the library for the second and third books in the Chaotic Orbits series because I enjoyed it that much and was very interested to see where the story would go next.   If I were to start at the beginning, I would tell you that following my enjoyment of Olivia Waite’s Murder by Memory I went on the hunt for books with a similar space mystery vibe because I […]

Magical Realism Dumplings

Time Loops & Meet Cutes by Jackie Lau

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Time loop stories are not my favorite genre so when Jackie Lau announced last year that Time Loops & Meet Cutes would be the title of her next book published by Atria Books, I took note but hadn’t planned on prioritizing it in my reading. Then I was sent an ARC and my curiosity and trust in Lau pushed me to accept it and get reading.   When we meet Noelle Tom, she is an overworked, underpaid, chronically in her own head person who doesn’t have […]

“You never have to do that with me. Show me the messy parts, okay? God knows, I’ve shown you mine.”

Next of Kin by Hannah Bonam-Young

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I had been flirting with reading a different Hannah Bonam-Young book and just couldn’t seem to commit to requesting it from my library. But then as I was scrolling Goodreads two weeks ago, I saw a review of Next of Kin and found myself immediately heading over to my library website and putting in a request which arrived within a couple days. Then I proceeded to read it in one long sitting on a Saturday. When I finished, I knew I was rating it 3.5 […]

“If he thought he could make her doubt her decision with a staring contest, he’d never been in a middle school classroom.”

Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb

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One of the things I love most in good romance writing is when authors let themselves really play in the arena of observations about the ways in which we all cope with our varied emotions. When things are really clicking Romance books become case studies in the human condition – just like all my other favorite writings across various genres. Birding with Benefits walks the line between doing that well, and being great at it – which is why I landed on a 3.5 rounded […]

Goodreads Didn’t Even Have Quotes for Me To Choose a Title From.

Bride of New France by Suzanne Desrochers

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This book was a bummer to read, and not just because the characters experienced nothing short of a litany of suffering and woe. Bride of New France was one of the books that I pulled from previous years TBRs and pulled forward, and I think I’m done with that endeavor for the year because I’ve already had three 2-star books this year, and two of them are from this group!  I don’t remember why Bride of New France made my reading list but it likely […]

“It’s okay to love your darkness and still love yourself. It doesn’t make you a bad person. It makes you a whole one.”

Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver

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About a year ago The Ruinous Love books by Brynne Weaver entered my world, and now I’ve read the final one and it was just what I wanted it to be without me having known what I wanted it to be when I went in. Scythe & Sparrow tells the story of Fionn and Rose that has been teased since Sloane and Rowan show up on Fionn’s doorstep in Butcher & Blackbird. Fionn is the youngest Kane sibling, a doctor who walked away from a promising surgical […]



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