Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Reading got Jess through her own cancer treatment. She's excited to be able to support her peers with something she loves to do anyway!

jessisreading's Reviews:

Can you DNF a Five Star Read? I did.

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

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Picture it. Sicily, 1922. Wait, no. That’s not right. Picture it. April 2, 2024. I’m preparing for international travel, and I have this vague desire to read On Theme. But I have no idea what to read, and have way too many books to slog through. I know I want to read digitally, because taking print books on a two-week trip to another country is a terrible idea when you own a kindle. But what do I want to read? I ask around online, because […]

Lucky Times Two

You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

Lucky Bounce by Cait Nary

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A couple of weeks ago, I was on my way to see Cat Sebastian. (Okay, I was heading to Unbound Book Festival to speak on a panel, but a great deal of my excitement was the ability to spend a little bit of time with Cat, who I had met before, and who I know to be a delightful person. Also, she was one of two people I would know at this thing, and I intended to latch on in the most awkward way possible.) […]

Well, I’ve got some thinking to do…

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price, PhD

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When my therapist asked if I had read Unmasking Autism a few weeks ago, I knew my whole mentality towards a lot of things was about to change. So I put it on hold at the library…but then I couldn’t wait so I downloaded the audiobook on Libro.FM and bought a print copy the next time I was at B&N. From the start, I had a whole new way of looking at what my life had looked like for nearly four decades, and what that might […]

Black AF History: Boring…AF? (Or Maybe Just Hard To Read)

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot

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I will come right out of the gate and say I approached this book the wrong way. I thought it was going to be more of a straight-through read, and it’s definitely something to read in chunks instead. Otherwise everything gets overwhelming and your brain just…shuts down. So perhaps for someone who didn’t try to power through it in a few weeks, or maybe even for someone who listened to the audiobook in its entirety, this book wasn’t…Boring AF. But I definitely found myself wandering […]

When you’re surprisingly okay with the Big Deception

The Marquess Makes His Move by Diana Quincy

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I bounced off the first book in this series HARD. I hated to do it, because I was enjoying myself, but the conflict was too much for me: A man and a woman have an intense connection at a roadside inn. The next day they discover that he is courting her stepdaughter. I’m sure everything turned out fine, but I couldn’t get over the hurdle of that kind of conflict. Would he continue to court her? Would the truth out in some horrendous way? I […]

Um. Okay. Wow.

Pucking Around by Emily Rath

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This book has been big in the zeitgeist, and I wasn’t sure if I’d ever pick it up because it is so…freaking…long. But I was looking for a new audiobook on Libby and there it was, available for my listening pleasure, and I gotta tell you: 25 hours never went by so fast. (Okay, that’s in part because I listened to it first in 1.75 and then in 2.0 when that was still too slow, so it was more like 13 or 14 hours.) The […]



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