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:

Freaky Friday without the magic

The Switch by Beth O'Leary

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Do you need a gentle, low stakes story with zero surprises to get you through a brain fog? Have I got the book for you. Plot: Leena’s sister died last year after a protracted battle with cancer and she has not handled it well. In fact, she’s handling it poorly enough that her work, some consulting company, insists on her taking a paid 2 month sabbatical to get her head on straight. Her grandmother Eileen is also reeling from her husband of 50 years leaving […]

“We are not your ornaments, we are your backbone.”

How to Catch a Queen by Alyssa Cole

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Do you love the Big Dumb Sadboy Fixed By Perfect Woman trope? Have you read and liked every retelling of Beauty and the Beast you’ve ever encountered? You’re going to love this book. Plot: Ever since she was a little girl, and saw the powerful, wise queen of Thabiso, commoner Shanti has had only one goal in life – to be a queen, but that is much easier said than done. Still, having unbendable determination and the support of her parents helps. Neighbouring country Njaza […]

“Like justice, it existed in theory.”

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

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The Nickel Boys has been well loved by cannonballers and for good reason. It is an unflinching, unsentimental fictionalized account of the Arthur G. Dozier School, a very real “school” where “delinquent” children as young as five would be, in effect, enslaved by the men who ran the school. Some of the survivors are currently pursuing a class action lawsuit against the State of Florida. Plot: Elwood is a gentle, intelligent Black boy aspiring to attend college and become a meaningful member of the civil […]

How to walk away from a writer

How to Walk Away by Katherine Center

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I generally try to give an author a couple of books before I put them on my Never Buy list. This makes 2 books from Katherine Center and she is officially on that list forever. I saw hints of problematic white feminism centring on a selfish Beckie who thinks she’s a gift to the world simply by existing in Happiness for Beginners. Those elements are that much more present in this novel. Plot: Becky (her actual name is Margaret) has never had an independent thought […]

“Well, astronomers did spend most of their time being wrong. What mattered was what they did when they realized the truth.”

The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

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This book is well loved by cannonballers and for good reason. It is a love story between two women fighting to find happiness in a world set up to withhold it from them in every arena, and somehow it manages to do this while being gentle, sweet, and fairly low on angst. Plot: Lucy is an astronomer, not that anyone knows it, since everything she’s ever done she’s published under her father’s name. When her long time girlfriend marries a man for the financial security […]

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf minus the self awareness

You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle

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Your tolerance for Big Misunderstandings peppered with a million small misunderstandings based on poor communication skills will determine whether you enjoy this or not. This book is about the ways in which couples often fail to talk to one another and allow resentment to build until there is nothing left but resentment, and that it is possible to still find their way back to each other. Plot: Naomi and Nicholas have been together for two years and their wedding is a few short months away. […]



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