Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I've been lurking on Pajiba since 2006, and loved Alabama Pink. Anything we can do in her memory is A-Ok by me. I'm an avid reader, love cooking, comedy, snarky humor, travel, and learning new things. I listen to many of my books while doing boring things around the house to keep up with a job and 3 little ones.

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The Downside of Genius

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

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Well if this book wasn’t a kick in the teeth….. Evelyn Caldwell is a brilliant geneticist with a specialty in adult human cloning.  She is married to Nathan, a rather mediocre scientist, and utter shit husband.  At the pinnacle of her scientific career, Nathan leaves Evelyn and marries another woman.  A woman who unsettles Evelyn to her core. It would be a shame to give away any of the plot details more than that, as this was really an incredible book to go into cold. […]

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year INDEED, Rebecca Gulka!

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Hooray for amazing book exchanges, and incredibly wonderful virtual friends sending incredible books.  I cannot WAIT to dig into these two books!  Rebecca Gulka, you lovely tropical fish, I cannot thank you enough!  And, as always, many thanks to the remarkable FaintingViolet for her generosity of spirit setting this all up (and dealing with my annoying questions).  Hugs to you all! 

Run with the Wolves, or Wait for the Bears?

The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan

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I picked this book out from an Audible 2-for-1 sale, and went into it a bit colder than perhaps I should have been.  The basic premise is thus: Catherine the Great brought over a large community of Germans to farm Russia, now known as Ukraine.  The communities were hard working and generationally insular, and though they spoke Russian, they considered themselves to be essentially German.  More importantly, both the Russians and the Nazis considered them to be Germans.  As WWII heated up, many of these […]

The Miracle of Julie Yip-Williams

The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After by Julie Yip-Williams

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            I am not one for memoirs most of the time; they’re just not my genre of choice. This one, however, hit me right between the eyes. It begins at the end of Julie’s life, with thoughts, hopes and love for her family, which had me in tears from the jump. Not that this book is morose or overwrought, but it is an earnest account of the author’s journey from feeling unwell through diagnosis, treatment, and all the decisions along […]

Don’t Judge THIS Book by the Cover (seriously)

Beach Read by Emily Henry

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Disclaimer: I picked up this title based upon an NPR Books discussion, and upon seeing the cover, really had no idea what I was getting myself into, as evidenced by the fact that I offered it up to my MIL’s book club, which includes her sisters and 82-year old, very Catholic mother.  Heavens to Betsy.  There are very few beaches in this book, that’s what I’m telling you. January Andrews, authoress and former girlfriend to a handsome doctor, is broke.  At the funeral of her […]

Spoiler Alert: This Book is Nothing but Fun & Sexy Times

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

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Ooh, boy.  Buckle up, Buttercup, it’s about to get steamy in here. April Whittier, geologist, is a competent, brilliant, funny, lovely woman who has a serious job in Sacramento with a burning secret: she writes FanFic for her favorite show “Gods of the Gates,” a mainstream and wildly popular adaptation of Greek/Roman mythology.  April has gone to great lengths to compartmentalize her real life and online life, but decides to make a change, moving her to the more open and accepting (?) area of Oakland/Berkeley, […]



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