Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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A Tale of Two Second Chances

Rewind it Back by Liz Tomforde

Left of Forever by Tarah DeWitt

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This year, two of my favourite romance authors were slated to release new books with the same central conceit: a second chance romance. Lucky for me, it’s one of my favourite tropes. Unluckily for me, I am very picky about it. Both books, Tarah DeWitt’s Left of Forever and Liz Tomforde’s Rewind it Back also happened to come out on the same day, so I was comparing the two even before I had either in my hands. Thankfully for me, I enjoyed both of them, […]

Revisiting favourites

Do You Want to Start a Scandal by Tessa Dare

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When I started reading historical romances, Tessa Dare was one of the first authors I picked up. I still think her writing is some of the most unique in the genre; its heartfelt, emotional, romantic, and deeply, deeply funny. Despite that, she has never been a writer whose books I can binge. So it had been about three years since I read my last Tessa Dare when I decided to pick up this book. I think because it had been so long I rewrote how […]

Now this is how I like my sports romance

In a Rush by Kate Canterbary

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I love sports, and I love romance. On paper, the boom in sports romances in recent years seems to have been tailor made for me, but they have not really worked as a whole. Other than Liz Tomforde’s Windy City books, none of the sports romances I’ve picked up in the past few years have worked for me. I generally find them to be painfully predictable and boring, and as someone tragically familiar with transfer sagas, the whole team-as-found-family thing reads really exhausting to me. […]

Project managers and analysts are the ones really living the good life

The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce

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There are very few books I can think of that have, in my opinion, the perfect first chapter. The Ex Vows opens in a flashback, but as a memory rather than dropping us into the exact time. The narrating character (Georgia) misremembers, corrects herself, and even rewrites history to be more in line with what eventually happens between her and her love interest (Eli). It leaves you with a need to know more, to find out what happens to these people after their incredibly charming […]

Maybe genres are just colonial hangover

Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener

From Waris to Heer by Haroon Khalid

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I first picked up Gabriela Wiener’s Undiscovered under the impression that it was a memoir. Following the author as she deals with her father’s death, the book is both a remembrance of that loss, as well as a personal look at the legacy of colonialism in Peru. As her last name suggests, the author is a descendant of Charles Wiener, the white man who almost rediscovered Machu Picchu (an important failure). Wiener seamlessly weaves a recounting of her personal journey with grief and recovery with […]

Do I like short books?

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Boulder by Eva Baltasar

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I find it a lot harder to explain why I liked a book than word vomiting about why it did not work for me. It becomes worse when it’s something I wouldn’t be inclined to like but something about the particular execution worked for me. So bear with me while I betray my academic roots and partake in an exercise of praise-writing. These books deserve that. On paper, Eva Baltasar’s Boulder (incredibly translated by Julia Sanches from the original Catalan) should not have worked for […]



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