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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“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”

Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

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I continue my foray back into the world of the Hitchhiker’s Guide with the second in the series. It’s good! But really isn’t as good as the first, which is not at all what I remember from when I read this in high school. The plot line with the impossible engine is straight up still one of the most original, creative things I’ve ever read. The concert they nearly died at was absolutely spectacular. The way they sacrificed Marvin without a second thought made me […]

A series about flawed, earnest people trying to make a life for themselves

Beginner's Luck (Chance of a Lifetime #1) by Kate Clayborn

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I’ve never read a series so unrelated to its main premise. This is the first book in a series following three women after they win the lottery. The win is surprisingly incidental to the actual stories. In essence, what this series attempts to ask is this – if your financial difficulties, your debt, your worries about saving for retirement, the financial needs of people you support, if it all went away, what choices would you make? How would you live differently than you do now? […]

A great story of instalove, if you like that

A Wedding One Christmas by Therese Beharrie

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Last year Emmalita reviewed the second book in this series, and it intrigued me. I’ll be honest, instalove is a huge pet peeve of mine, but I was curious by a self aware attempt to create a meaningful connection over a single day. Plot: Angie is going home, to Cape Town, for the holidays. This is really hard for her since she hasn’t been back home for three years, since a tragedy struck the family and she couldn’t face it. To delay the inevitable, she […]

A light, sweet, funny read about learning to be vulnerable and respecting boundaries

The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa

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The very first time I ever sat down and ended up writing a book, it was because of Castle. It was most of the way through season 3, and I was very invested. The characters felt fresh and fleshed out and interesting and the story of Castle and Beckett coming together was one that the audience got taken on in a way I feel is rarely captured on TV. And then they hooked them up, and as so often happens, possibly because TV writers are […]

A book that does not have either what it portends in the title or in the description

Doukakis's Apprentice by Sarah Morgan

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I still can’t past the name. I’ve read the entire book and I still chuckle like a teenager at Doukakis. I mean. Come on! Doukakis. Hehehehehehe. Anyway this book is terrible.   Plot: woman with neglectful father sacrifices every ambition she has to keep his business afloat because the people that work in the company are also, for the most part, kind of useless. Some of them are useless for understandable reasons, but instead of helping them properly solve it, she basically just does all […]

Finding hope by accepting responsibility for your mistakes

Luck of the Draw by Kate Clayborn

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Ya’ll. I can’t with this book. I literally can’t. This shit is why I read. Go read it.   Not enough? Right. Word minimums. I read FaintingViolet’s recommendation of this book a few weeks ago (I think? I don’t know how time works anymore). Both this book and the first in the series were waitlisted, so I put my name down and promptly forgot about it. So much so that I forgot that this is the second in the series and didn’t realize it until […]



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