Voting for this book club is now closed. Check out our Book Announcement and join us for Book Club on March 8, 2017! Last summer Book Club tackled Science Fiction, and as promised back then, we are going to take on Fantasy this year. Right now, in fact. Fantasy will be our first genre of the year (with Non-Fiction, Non-Western Literary Fiction, and Plays rounding out the year). I have pulled together five possible choices, and since part of the overarching goal of the Book […]
“Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”
I try to read a little bit of many different genres throughout the course of any given year. However, like most people, I lean more heavily on some genres than others. Fantasy, while one of our most read genres (over 150 pages of reviews!), has been a slowly growing genre for me. It took some in depth discussions with Ale for me to nail down my problems: I have a very difficult time getting my brain around non-Earth settings, and the tropes, particularly the Quest, […]
Be Who You Are, Marry Who You Want – Historical Romance Edition
Here we are again lovelies. It’s the beginning of another Cannonball Read and I am telling you about a romance novel that I enjoyed and picked up based on the suggestions of other cannonballers. It’s the system at its finest, really. We almost read this one for Book Club last year, and part of me wishes we had, and another part of me thinks this one would have been a little too tropey as well. And I say that knowing full well that it ended up on Mrs. Julien’s best […]
A Christmas Romance
It should be known that I am a completist. I love to complete a series, it’s like the book version of checking the last thing off of a to do list. (I also like to do lists.) To cap off the Wallflowers series Lisa Kleypas wrote A Wallflower Christmas, and I was in because I also like to finish the year with a Christmassy read when I can, and I’ve already reread and reviewed A Kiss for Midwinter once this Cannonball. As I summarized in my review of Scandal in Spring, Kleypas set herself up with four […]
“But the only way to get lucky is to be prepared for luck to find you.”
When I found out that Bryan Cranston would be publishing a book in 2016, I was on the lookout. I am a late in the game Cranston fan, but there’s something about the roles he’s chosen, and the way he conducts himself in public that spoke to me, and I thought, I’d really like to know what he has to say. Since I had particularly enjoyed his reading of The Things They Carried I decided to go with the audio version. Here’s the thing about […]
“She’s my little sister. Mine to torture and mine to protect.”
The end of 2016 finds me reading and reviewing quite a few Romance novels. This is my third in recent weeks. I decided to read the second four books in Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series this year, which meant it was time to make sure I hit that goal and finally get to Gregory’s book, On the Way to the Wedding. When I started the Bridgerton series in 2015, I knew from the romance readers around Cannonball Read that these were peak Quinn books, and I […]
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