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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“Okay, ovary up. Fallopian forward. Vulva with a vengeance.”

How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams

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Finding yourself and love after abuse. Plot: Dr. Turner is on the cusp of tenure after years of working to rebuild her professional reputation from a smear campaign by an abusive ex when she finds out that her department is getting evaluated by consultants. You know what that means. It’s job cuts time! Her friends suggest this may be an opportune time to start challenging herself by stepping out of her comfort zone. You know what that means. Sex with a stranger. It always means […]

“The key to this phase is to trust your inner bitch and the messages she’s whispering to you.”

Period Power by Maisie Hill

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This is a very difficult book to review. This is, at its core, a pop science book. So for me, a review of it necessarily has to explore how much of the book is pop and how much of it is actual science. Pop science books have a long history of being significantly more of the former and very little of the latter. The problem is that the topic is women’s health, which results in very little useful discussion online to guide the reader in […]

“Is it the Harrison Ford kind of boss or the Tommy Lee Jones kind of boss? They’re both your dad, but which is the best spanker?”

Shit, Actually by Lindy West

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This book is an example of how even though you can have the same sense of humour and interests as someone, that doesn’t mean you’ll enjoy the same things the same way. I don’t get this book. At all. I don’t get the fanfare around it. I don’t get the raving reviews. It’s basically a series of modestly amusing if ancient jokes interspersed with just descriptions of what is happening in a movie, which you need to have seen to find any of the jokes […]

In defense of Pippin, the actual best hobbit

The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien

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I did not care for the Lord of the Rings when I was younger. It took my then-boyfriend three attempts at making me watch through the series before I could stay awake past Boromir dying. It just that Boromir takes too damn long to die. But he persisted and fed me tasty things to keep me awake and I discovered LOTR (or the LORT we call it at home) meme groups online and suddenly I was in baby. I mean, I needed to understand the underlying […]

“Not really caring about the names of other people was never one of her best qualities, but it was one of her most defining features and she clings to it.”

Children of Ruin (Book 2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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If you’ve read the first in the series, Children of Time, you’re in for a ride that is both familiar and brand spanking new. If you haven’t, don’t start here. Go back, and do it right. It’s so worth it. Disclaimer: do not even read this review if you haven’t read the first book. I will avoid spoilers for this book, but not the first one. Plot: We pick up with explorers from the Old Earth, Kern’s contemporaries are trying to terraform a world for […]

“She’s like everything I wanted to be as a child before I grew up and realized I was an incurable cow and it might be genetic.”

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

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If you love Talia Hibbert and you love YA novels, you’re going to love this book. If you love fun YA novels,  you are going to be obsessed with this. If you love Talia Hibbert and you hate YA novels with a fiery passion, you are going to be okay anyway. I fall into the latter category, just so my biases are front and centre for ya. Plot: Celine is an overachieving nerd with a goal of becoming a kickass corporate lawyer so she could […]



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