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.)

Nart's Reviews:

“Man, this is the world’s worst workout program. The Drag Your Own Butter.”

Whiteout by Adriana Anders

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Despite this book being a romance, thus guaranteeing a happy ending, it had me on the edge of my seat. Not a small feat. Plot: Angel loves to cook. After her boyfriend cheats on her and causes her restaurant to go bankrupt, she does what every sensible person might do and accepts a posting cooking for a crew of scientists in an outpost in Antarctica. Non-science types are only welcome in the summer though, because winter in Antarctica is simply beyond the capacity of anyone […]

The Two Towers: Pippin is just a stand-in for Tolkien’s son right?

The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien

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I’m back from my second visit to OG Middle Earth and I have thoughts. Remember, you brought this on yourselves. I remember noticing a difference in Star Trek once Roddenberry was no longer involved. He was really hung up on the idea that there can’t ever be conflict among the crew, because in his perfect future, we’ve literally grown out of interpersonal conflict. And it was *boring* because it didn’t make sense. Even in a perfect world, it is impossible for there never to be […]

“A sensible longing is easily put aside, but a childish, irrational one is not.”

A Scandalous Kind of Duke by Mia Vincy

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A second third chance romance in the regency world. Plot: Leo and Juno met when they were awkward teens, he the heir to a dukedom, and she the abandoned child of a pair of artists, when she was taken in by her much better to do cousins. They fell head over heels with each other, but the class difference were impossible to overcome, so Juno ran off to be an artist on the continent. Leo followed her, but that went very poorly, and Leo came home with […]

Ending junk science about your junk

The Vagina Bible by Dr Jen Gunther

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Long, long overdue review of essential reading for anyone with a vagina or anyone who loves a person with a vagina. Dr. Gunther is waging a war on sexist, ignorant misinformation that prevents women from (1) loving their very normal bodies, (2) understanding their bodies, (3) and getting the care they need when their bodies are in trouble. This books cuts through the bullshit to tell you what medicine knows today, what it doesn’t know, and to beg you to stop steaming your vagina. It does this without […]

“All the shiny surfaces reflected the other shiny surfaces, as though the house was in love with itself and couldn’t stop winking and preening”

I'm Only Wicked With You by Julie Anne Long

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Third in the Palace of Rogues series. Plot: Hugh is an *shudder* American, who has been holed up growing increasingly restless at the Grand Palace on the Thames. He’s been tasked with finding a woman who took off with hardly a clue, and he’s hoping, maybe marry the gal once he finds her? The inn has new guests however, in the Vaughn family – an earl with his wife, two daughters and son, on account of a small misadventure involving a snake and gunfire that led […]

“If you’re our age and single, dating kind of has to be an act of reckless optimism”

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

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This book explores the journey of learning that long engrained habits are no longer serving us, and that despite this knowledge it still requires immense fortitude to let them go. And then you have to go and do it again and again until you die. Plot: Sally is a writer for the copy-right safe SNL called the Night Owls, and she’s kind of bitter. She had let a lot of her youth be dictated by what she was supposed to want, and when she finally […]



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