Cannonball Read 17

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Even More Hillbilly Fantasy!

Fae Lords of Oklahoma by Ferrett Steinmetz

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Daisy and Wild-Eye are back and getting into trouble once more! Now a few months after the events of Dragon Kings of Oklahoma, baby dragon Ace is tired of being hidden away and is clamoring to live in town. Which is a bad idea, because Ace isn’t even supposed to be in Oklahoma, but rather back in Germany where she’s a protected species. Meanwhile, Daisy’s Druid mother has swept back into town and is demanding that Daisy come with her to fully train as a Druid. Fae […]

Maybe You Shouldn’t Start a Series With the Penultimate Novel

X by Sue Grafton

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Despite enjoying plenty of grocery store detective novels in my younger years (James Patterson, Michael Connolly, etc.) I had somehow never read anything by Sue Grafton. I knew of her, of course, and her alphabet-themed series of detective novels, but for whatever reason had never picked one up. Well, for the 2024 PopSugar reading challenge, I had to read a book starting with the letter X. I had started reading a different book, and was struggling with maintaining interest, and decided to switch it up. […]

Like Good Luck Chuck, But Not Dumb

Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

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Justin has a curse. Every girl he dates and breaks up with goes on to meet the man of her dreams. This hasn’t just happened once or twice, but for every relationship he’s had for years. Now, thanks to a Reddit post that went viral, his curse has become public knowledge and women are messaging him constantly trying to date him and leave him so they can find Mr. Right. Emma has the same curse. At least four of her exes have gone on to […]

Kind of a Miserable Home, Actually

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

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Alison Bechdel is perhaps best known for the Bechdel Test, a measure of representation of women in media. (For those who don’t know, the test asks whether a particular work features more than one woman, whether those women have a conversation with one another, and whether that conversation centers around a topic other than a man.) But Alison Bechdel is also a cartoonist who created a long-running cartoon strip and two graphic novel memoirs. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic was her first graphic memoir, and […]

A Dystopian Alternate History of WW2

Widowland: A Novel by C.J. Carey

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In this alternate version of history, Great Britain and Nazi Germany forged an alliance in 1939, preventing World War II and creating a “Protectorate” in England in which women are divided into castes, Jewish people are mostly barred from public life, and reading for pleasure is discouraged, though not yet outright banned. It is now 1953. Our protagonist Rose is a “Geli”, the highest rank a woman can achieve, and works for the Ministry of Culture where she rewrites classics of English literature to better […]

I’d Rather Be an Other Bird

Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

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“There are birds, and then there are other birds. Maybe they don’t sing. Maybe they don’t fly. Maybe they don’t fit in. I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather be an other bird rather than just the same old thing.” On Sweet Mallow Island, off the coast of Charleston, there’s a small condominium called The Dellawisp, named for the ubiquitous turquoise birds that call the courtyard their home. There are only four residents of The Dellawisp – Charlotte, a henna artist running from […]



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