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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“Not caring was fucking exhausting.”

Deliliah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

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  Sometimes, you need to go a long way to get home. Plot: Delilah Green finally escaped her reluctant step mother and sister and their absolutely stifling small town. Despite the small apartment and mostly casual connections she has made as a struggling artist in New York, she feels like she can properly breath for the first time. Her step family isn’t done with her though, and she is cajoled into coming home for her step-sister’s wedding – as the photographer. Hey, what’s a bit […]

“I wanted to learn about endurance, because I was in a situation in which I could do nothing but endure.”

You Were Made to be Mine by Julie Anne Long

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Book 5 in the Grand Palace on the Thames series. Plot: Aurelie is a gently bred young lady raised in France. She has much of what she needs, but no real family to speak of. She is somewhat flighty and sheltered, but even she realizes that the guy who wants to marry her is a controlling monster, so she takes a lovely jeweled necklace he gifted her and took off in the night to England. Once she arrives, she lands in the Grand Place on […]

“Do you know what a group of teenagers is called? Hooligans.”

Next of Kin by Hannah Bonam Young

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A story of found family and acceptance. Plot: Chloe has had it pretty sweet, all things considered. Though her mother has struggled with addiction, Chloe was adopted into a family that gave her stability and choices. Also, she never had to wonder whether her mother cared about her, it was obvious she did. Still, that makes for a tough relationship, so they hadn’t spoken in a good long while when her mom calls her up from the hospital. The issue? Well, as it turns out, […]

Reconciliation with Canada’s colonial past and its legal systems

Braiding Legal Orders by John Borrows

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Braiding Legal Orders is a compilation of essays by legal professionals of various areas of expertise who offer a unique insight into the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and how to take it from a non-binding international instrument and into a legal principle fully integrated with domestic legal systems. The most obvious concept here is of course that to truly integrate Indigenous governance, they must actually carry legal weight, and have distinct jurisdictional authority. This is of course simpler said than […]

“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of”

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

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Let me just start by saying that I am not out here trying to take down one of the most celebrated female authors of all time. I also think its worthwhile to note that this was my first time reading a Jane Austin novel all the way through, after having consumed hundreds of romance novels that may not have existed without her. I would however also note that I’ve also read Georgette Heyer, whose I loved, despite the same being true of her (except being […]

“why meet only six rather predictable men, when you could meet six hundred surprises.”

Marry Me By Midnight by Felicia Grossman

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Plot: Isabella Lira is in a pickle. Her father has just died, and beyond being emotionally crippling also throws the family’s enormous business into disarray. Her father’s partners want to cut her out, and only a man in her corner will save the Lira name. Fortunately, this is easily solvable – she is young, beautiful, perfectly cultured, rich, and goddamn brilliant. So, she goes husband hunting. Her criteria is simple: he must be charming, professionally capable, and always, always take her side. That means the […]



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