Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I'm tired of cancer eating my friends and family. I'm not a scientist, but I'm stubborn and I love books - so I'll be fundraising the sad and powerless right outta my hair.

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Some Actually Recommended Romances

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

The Next Best Fling by Gabriella Gamez

Enemies With Benefits by Roxie Noir

Dear Grumpy Boss by Julia Wolf

Bananapants by Penny Reid

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I’m still reading romance novels on my kindle, and when people ask me what I recommend, it’s always Paul Murray or Ted Chiang or “Oh, I’ve just reread Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved.”  I have got to stop being ashamed of reading them, though, because some of the most fun I’ve had this year has been reading romances. This is by no means a comprehensive list of the top 4 romance novels I’ve read this year – it’s just the top 4 most recently read […]

2024 Was The Year Of The Hockey Novel

Slap Shot by Kat Mizera

Ice Breaker by Hanna Grace

The Boyfriend Goal by Lauren Blakely

Thoroughly Pucked by Lauren Blakely

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There are SO MANY hockey romances around, you guys!!  I read a random sampling of them over the course of the year.  Please, allow my sacrifice to guide you, as you choose more wisely than I did. Slap Shot was a fun if forgettable romance.  First in the series, but the subsequent novels were, according to my notes, “too expensive to be worth it.”  My thumbnails are occasionally rude like that. Juliet heads to a hockey match, and gets hit in the head by a […]

Are you reading Ben Stevenson yet?

Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret by Benjamin Stevenson

Fool Me Twice: Two Twisty Mysteries by Benjamin Stevenson

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I’ve reviewed a couple of Ben Stevenson’s books in the past, and I remain a shameless devotee of his writing.  These two represent the highs and the lows of it, but both remain part of my top twenty books for the year. Fool Me Twice took me back to my childhood.  It can be read from either side – flip the book and start a new story – and is comprised of two novella-length stories. The first story, Find Us, is a pretty creepy kidnapping […]

Disposable Crime Fiction for Christmas/New Year Holidays

The Valley by Chris Hammer

Endgame by Sarah Barrie

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Absolutely no offence intended for anyone who writes or reads crime fic – I love it, and read a bunch of it.  However, I already forgot how these ended, and I’ve read them in the last four weeks. The Valley is the latest in Chris Hammer’s series of books starring Ivan & Nell, two detectives based out of Dubbo, servicing a large swath of rural NSW. Hammer’s early Martin Scarsden books have recently been turned into direct-to-streaming movies, starting with Scrublands.  If you saw that, […]

I think I am a Joyce

Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman

The Last Devil To Die by Richard Osman

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The TL;DR version of this review is: these are some of the most charming books you will ever pick up.  Grab a cuppa and a blanket and give them a go. Set in an assisted living complex in England, the Thursday Murder Club meets weekly to review cold case files, and see if they can solve them.  As you would, if you could!  Coopers Chase caters to the sprightly as well as those needing full time care, for a price.  It’s quite idealised, but our […]

A Spoilery Review of the Bee Sting

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

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This book was nothing like Infinite Jest, but I’ve shelved them together, because I similarly can’t work out whether  I really liked this, or really didn’t.  So, strap in, as I overthink it. It’s going to be a spoiler-filled review – last chance to get off this train if you haven’t read The Bee Sting as yet.  I’m not going to lay out the basics of the plot and characters – the assumption is that you’re already across the who, what, where and when. I […]



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