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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Witch Please by Ann Aguirre

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This book has insta-love and yet I don’t hate it. Miracles do happen. Plot: Danica is a tech witch. So is her cousin and best friend Clementine. They can mess with technology, so what better way to make their money than by opening an appliance repair shop in the small midwestern town their family settled in after centuries of persecution. Thanks to some intense family drama, Dani and Clem have sworn off relationships. On the other side of town, Titus has some intense family drama […]

“There is room on this land for all of us and there must also be, after centuries of struggle, room for justice for Indigenous peoples. That is all we ask. And we will settle for nothing less.”

Unsettling Canada by Arthur Manuel

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Much of the material written in the public sphere about Indigenous people in Canada, their struggle, and possible ways forward, are written with a very uninformed reader in mind. Those books are, of course, vital. These are extraordinarily difficult topics with complex roots and very few simple answers. It is critical that there is an on ramp for people who are trying to learn. This book, however, is not for folks new to the struggle. If you have been educating yourself for some time, already […]

“Imagine ‘Drunk Ikea’ nights. You show your ID at the door, and then they get you plastered in the kitchen section, blindfold and spin you around a few times, and you have to find your way out.”

Even Odds by Elia Winters

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I have no idea how this thing ended up on my TBR, which means it probably came from Reddit, so it has happened. Reddit recommended a book I liked! Plot: Isabel Suarez has been burned. At her last job as a programmer for a video game company, she started dating a colleague, and the rest of the fuck boys decided that meant open season for the rest of the them. After she left, she decided not to take any chances – best her colleagues think […]

“Expiration dates are for the weak.”

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazlewood

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Think the Hating Game with fake dating in academia. Plot: Olive is a PhD student trying to unlock the secret of early pancreatic cancer detection. She’s also a deeply, deeply lonely person despite her two best friends. So when one of those best friends develops a crush on a guy Olive was very briefly, very casually dating, Olive is determined to figure out a way to make those crazy kids get together. What better way than to show them she’s moved on? Only she’s not […]

“You’re partially impaled. This is no time to be stoic.”

The Leopard King by Ann Aguirre

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It happened! A paranormal romance I liked! Prepare yourselves for news of flying pigs. Plot: For a hundred years, after a war with the humans bisected the continent into supernatural creatures and human, a peace treaty has stood, however uneasily, between the Animari, the Golgoth and the Eldritch. This unity  has been, as many consider, the most significant protection from human aggression to the south. At the end of a century, it is however time to renegotiate terms, and the conflict and ambitions that have […]

“The things we do to avoid difficult things are often worse than the difficult thing.”

Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane

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An emotional read about grief, friendship, and learning to move on from pain. Emily Henry reviewed it as a book she wished she’d have written herself, only then she wouldn’t have been able to enjoy reading it, if that gives you a sense of the pacing and narrative structure of the book. Plot: Eve has a close knit friend group – her best friend Susie, her mate Justin, and Ed, the guy she’s been in love with since she was 17, who has been dating […]



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