Cannonball Read 17

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Taking “What If?” A Bit Too Far

Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley

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Up until meeting her now-fiancé Maxwell (affectionally called Boots), Lola was the definition of a serial monogamist. Unlucky in love – or maybe too lucky but with the wrong people – Lola has a storied past full of men who did her wrong, men she did wrong, and men she simply grew apart from. But all that’s over, now that she and Boots are engaged. Except Lola isn’t quite sure she wants to be engaged. The ring is kind of ugly, she doesn’t really like […]

Do All Podcasts Transform to True Crime? Or Does That Only Happen In the Books I Read?

None of This is True by Lisa Jewell

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Call me basic, but I love me a good psychological thriller. Trying to guess what’s going to happen, the truth behind the misdirection, the twists, figuring out whether a narrator is reliable or not… They’re just fun. Lisa Jewell is a prolific writer, with over 20 published works. I’ve read a few of her books and enjoyed every one, including this latest. None of This Is True is fun, a gripping story about a podcaster who finds herself in the middle of her own true-crime […]

A Frothy Venture into the Fashion Media World

The Knockoff by Lucy Sykes & Jo Piazza

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What if Miranda Priestly was nice, but also had to deal with a changing media landscape and an upstart editor who thinks she’s future of fashion media? That’s the general premise of The Knockoff. Imogen Tate is the Editor in Chief of Glossy magazine, a fashion mag that’s supposed to be similar in status to Vogue. Imogen is returning to work after a 6-month sabbatical during which she underwent cancer treatment. She comes back expecting the status quo, but is surprised to find her former […]

A Road Trip With the Stupidest Girl Alive

Survive the Night by Riley Sager

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Ok, I’m starting to get the complaints about Riley Sager. When I read Final Girls and The Last Time I Lied I enjoyed them and didn’t really understand the negativity around Sager as an author. But with Survive the Night I think I get it. I thought I’d really like it, but honestly it was just meh. I’m beginning to see why people whose opinions I trust don’t think highly of Sager’s work. Let’s start with the premise. Charlie is dropping out of college after […]

Dipping My Toe Into Sanderson’s Oeuvre

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

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Tress is a lower-class girl on Diggen’s Point, a tiny rock that barely qualifies as an island, but whose industry – salt mining – is too vitally important to the kingdom’s safety to allow anyone to immigrate elsewhere. Salt, in fact, is one of the few things (alongside silver) that keep people safe from the spores that fall from the moons and make up the seas that cover the world. Tress is a window washer, a collector of cups from faraway places, an adept bargainer, […]

A World You Want To Wear Like a Blanket

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

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Becky Chambers’ first Monk & Robot book, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, struck a chord in me in a way that few other books have. Chambers built a world so beautiful, so full of hope, that I just wanted to curl up in it like a blanket. She continues that glorious world-building in the second book, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy. Picking up right after book 1, we join Sibling Dex and Mosscap as they re-enter human territory and plan to introduce Mosscap to the […]



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