Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Nart is an avid romance reader who dabbles in other stuff when she has the spoons. When she’s not reading she’s a bureaucrat both professionally and as an activist because she’s a masochist. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Nart's Quick Questions interview.)

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“That’s not a father. That’s a sperm donor. Forget him. He’s a mess. Concentrate on me. I’m terrific.”

The Cinderella Deal by Jennifer Crusie

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I love reading Crusie novels to remind myself that not every romance novel pre-mid-2000’s is, in retrospect, unreadable trash. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore Loretta Chase, but her 90’s books, as lovely as they are, definitely still need to be read with the context that those books are 30 years old now. The real pain from reading this book almost 30 years later was that Daisy was paying, for a bachelor apartment, $300/month in rent. *cries in rent inflation and wage stagnation* Plot: […]

“Jesus. He was talking to a cloak.”

In Which Margo Halifax Earns Her Shocking Reputation by Alexandra Vasti

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Belligerent twin sisters who wreak havoc on the Ton for their amusement as their own form of protest against Society’s chokehold on women. Plot: Margo has carried the title of being one half of the Halifax Hellions for about 7 years now, since they were first introduced to society. Frankly, at this point it feels more like work than fun trying to keep thinking up new ways to outdo their previous shocking conduct. Just smoking a cheroot and tying cherry stems in knots won’t do […]

“It’s a library, Daphne. If you can’t be a human here, where can you?”

Funny Story by Emily Henry

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Take the plot of one early 2000’s B grade rom com, and add intense emotional stakes and sex, and you have yourself an Emily Henry novel. Plot: Daphne has a job she loves, just bought her first ever house, which she plans on sharing with her “tv handsome” fiancé who is also loaded, and she is about to recapture the magic of her youth by finally launching an overnight readathon where kids stay overnight at the library reading and raising money for the library she […]

“She gravely disliked the realization that she was human.”

I Kissed An Earl by Julie Anne Long

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Long takes the Woman Stows Away On a Ship trope in unexpected directions. Plot: Violent Redmond is fatally bored. Her entire life is balls and house parties and tedious Society and she has started taking drastic steps to feel alive, like literally threatening to kill herself over some minute argument with one of her many, many admirers. So it is perhaps not surprising that when she meets the new Earl of Ardmay, a British-born, American raised man of mixed heritage who might be trying to hunt down her […]

“He loathed being intrigued by puppets.”

Since the Surrender by Julie Anne Long

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Great fun to read and utterly forgettable afterwards. Plot: Captain Eversea has returned from war a huge bummer, so his family has tasked him with interviewing a potential new vicar for Pennyroyal Green and are hoping he is able to pry the stick out of his ass while he’s at it. But he’s an Eversea and so genetically incapable of following orders, so when a mysterious letter appears for him telling him to go across London to a weird museum no one goes to, he […]

“Sometimes the only way to find the route forward is to grumble about all the paths that have closed.”

After the Wedding by Courtney Milan

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The second novel in the Worth saga. Plot: Camille’s father and brother betrayed the British Crown and paid for it with their lives. She chose comfort over keeping what was left of her family, and paid for it by never being loved again. In fact, while they’ve had each other, she’s lost more and more and more of the life of her youth, until it felt more like a dream than a memory. She’s working for half-wages in the middle of nowhere, constantly on the […]



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