Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Levi is a whole damn mood, y’all

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

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This is has got to be my third re-read of Fangirl and it just never gets old. This is one of the sweetest g-d books out there, I will never stop recommending or adoring it. Rainbow Rowell just writes these wonderful warm blanket books that are perfect for so many situations up to and including when you’re spending Valentine’s Day cooped up in a hotel room a thousand miles from your husband. This book is a hug. I know this is the umpteenth Rowell/Fangirl review here on […]

Comprehensive, confusing world-building

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

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In what has been a bit of a theme for me so far this year, The City in the Middle of the Night took me a pretty long time to get into. I was more than a third through this book before it hooked but but once it got me, oh man, I was IN. It’s one of those books that seems to straddle science fiction and fantasy, with all the intensely new world that requires. Once that barrier is overcome, it’s a wild ride. Two […]

I was not the intended audience for these

The Need by Helen Phillips

Heartburn by Nora Ephron

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One of these books is about a pregnant woman discovering and dealing with her husband’s infidelity and the other is about a mother dealing with a terrifying home invasion so you wouldn’t necessarily think they would be grouped together but no, I’m going for it. And let me explain why. The biggest and most truthful reason is that I didn’t much care for either and by lumping them together I can spend fewer words on both. The second and more tenuous reason is that both […]

A little bit of everything

The Other Americans by Laila Lalami

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The Amazon review (right before it tries to pitch me American Dirt, I mean, really?!) calls this a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, and yeah, that all tracks. The Other Americans starts with and centers on the hit-and-run death of Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant living in California, but the real story is that of his daughter Nora and how it impacts her but there are also chapters from his wife, from Nora’s former classmate-turned-policeman-turned-love-interest, from the detective on the case, from a […]

A satisfying-ish ending to a too-long series

The Sword and Pen by Rachel Caine

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That title makes me sound way more down on this book than I actually was. I genuinely really enjoy this series and there wasn’t a book I hated, or even disliked, it just began to feel like the whole thing went on for too long. That coupled with the fact that just about everything else I’ve read this month has been stellar beyond words meant that well, The Sword and Pen was good, but not groundbreaking. Somewhere in the lack couple dozen reviews I did is […]

Vanished from the edge of the world

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

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Have you ever misidentified the Korean peninsula on a map, then double checked and realized you had your finger on Russia? That’s the Kamchatka Peninsula and it’s very nearly what Sarah Palin could see from her house. The skinny neck of land connecting it to the continent renders it one of the most isolated places on earth, and this book really fills in that picture. It is lonely, it is cold, and it is beautiful. Against this landscape, two sisters ages 8 and 11 are […]



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