Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I'm a mom of two and a voracious reader. I love happily-ever-afters and space ships. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: llamareadsbooks's Quick Questions interview.)

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How to teach your kids to build a “better, fairer, stronger world”

How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes by Melinda Wenner Moyer

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CBR13Bingo: Pandemic Because if there’s anything I learned during the pandemic, it’s parenting my little gremlins is hard work and I need all the help I can get! While I wouldn’t consider myself a stellar parent by any measure, I enjoy reading about parenting studies and generally try to do my best for my kids. So I picked this up not expecting to learn too much new information, only to be completely gobsmacked by how much of my general liberal parenting knowledge was completely wrong – […]

“Chaos seems to follow you around like a lap dog.”

How Sweet It Is by Dylan Newton

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CBR13Bingo: People This book is adorable and hilarious, full of over-the-top rom-com hijinx and basically cute as heck. It’s set during the fall in a small town in western NY and has a delightfully cozy (and a little bit spooky) vibe. Definitely perfect to go with a pumpkin spice candle and some warm apple cider! “Throwing parties is like blowing a soap bubble—fun, but quickly over and forgotten. But event planning is like crafting a sphere out of iridescent glass and gifting it to someone […]

Look, this book has space dinosaurs, enough said.

Wave Rider by Michelle Diener

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CBR13Bingo: The Wilds (I mean, it’s alien wilds, but seriously this entire book is mostly set outdoors) I’d read and enjoyed one book by this author before (the first in her Class 5 series) so I jumped on the chance to try out this one. A scientist and what sounds like a surfer dude running from bad guys? Sounds like my kind of thing! This is fifth in a series, but I read it as a standalone. First off, a little background. The small moon […]

Hallmark-style sweet tea

Sweet Tea by Piper Huguley

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CBR13Bingo: Home This book is exactly as sweet as the title suggests! It’s an interracial romance between an intellectual property lawyer and the filmmaker who’s trying to preserve old southern recipes. It does lean heavily on the “big city person returns to her small town roots” Hallmark premise, so be warned if that’s not your thing. After a tragic accident upended her life as a young teen, Althea left Milford and her remaining family behind her. Years of boarding school, college and hard work later, […]

Space horror, androids and a super creepy ship

We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen

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CBR13 Bingo: Landscape I am always here for space horror, especially ones that question the definition of human consciousness. And this book is creepily atmospheric, starring a fascinating main character who has her work cut out for her trying to be the therapist for the thirteen other human crew members on a mission to evaluate a planet for possible human colonization. It wasn’t supposed to be that way – Park’s mentor was supposed to be the primary therapist while Park was just supposed to be […]

“The women save themselves.”

What If You & Me by Roni Loren

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New Series: The first book in the series came out March 2021 Grumpy/sunshine is a favorite trope of mine, so I was very excited to read this newest book by Roni Loren, and I wasn’t disappointed. It’s also a fascinating take on that trope: while Andi is extroverted and optimistic, she’s not without her own troubles, and I loved how in some ways she’s less sunshine-y than her “grumpy werewolf” neighbor. This is the second in the series but can easily be read as a standalone. […]



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