Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I love books, and after completing graduate school, I want an excuse to think deeply about them again. Proud granddaughter of multiple cancer survivors and would love to read and write for a cause.

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You Are Not Alone: Let the women do the work!

You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

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This one was interesting! Like many novels of this type, the chapters alternate between different perspectives, letting the reader in on the underlying plot.  Shay Miller witnesses an apparent suicide in the subway in New York one day. She’s lost her job and is generally feeling lost, and one day she sees a woman jump in front of a train. She doesn’t know why. She doesn’t know anything about the woman, but there is something familiar about her…  This leads Shay to spend her days […]

The Wife Who Knew Too Much

The Wife Who Knew Too Much by Michele Campbell

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This is another run-of-the-mill domestic thriller, rags-to-riches category.  Tabitha is a server at a country club in the less glamorous part of the Hamptons. One day, she sees a familiar face from her past – Connor Ford – the grandson of a wealthy, local family who was her first love in her teen years. They met at the same country club when Connor was a member and Tabitha was, still, a server.  In the intervening years, Tabitha became a nurse, but was fired from her […]

Someone’s Listening…

Someone's Listening by Seraphina Nova Glass

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I read this in a flurry with several other “domestic suspense” novels, so, admittedly, I had to refresh my memory. When I read the synopsis, I remembered that this one has a slightly different angle than some others, but it doesn’t stand out in my memory that strongly.  This could be more due to the fact that I read SEVERAL domestic thrillers in the course of a few weeks, and it’s now becoming much easier to predict what’s going on. Or it could be that […]

Support Trans People

Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith

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This is the second time I’ve read this book. I’m a big fan of the Cormoran Strike novels, and the fifth one is just as enjoyable as the first. However, this is first JK Rowling novel I’ve read since she came out as TERF (Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminist), and I have mixed feelings. I think this is the last time I’ll read Rowling’s new works as I don’t believe in economically supporting people who do that much harm to vulnerable populations. However, I cannot deny that […]

Plural Marriage Made Interesting

The Wives by Tarryn Fisher

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Before I get into this review, I think it’s important that I tell you I was born and raised in Mormonism and spent a great deal of time in Utah. So the polygamy of it all is extra interesting to me. That’s right. The title of this novel refers to “plural marriage,” which is what fundamentalist Mormons call (and called) polygamy from the 19th century to today. Thursday is the second wife of a man who is married to three women. His first wife, Monday […]

The Masks We Wear

Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell

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The Hampstead neighborhood has been besieged by an increasing number of sexual assaults happening even in broad daylight. One of the families that lives near the assaults is the Fours family. The father, Roan, is a child psychologist; the wife and mother, Cate, is a physiotherapist; and they have a daughter and a son. Their across-the-street neighbor, Owen, is a thirty-year-old virgin who lives with his aunt. After being accused of inappropriate behavior with is students, he finds his way to the INCEL community online. […]



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