Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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one of my favorite books of the year

The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

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There are many books that I am going to be speed-reviewing this year, but I need to write a proper review for this book because I’ve named it one of my best reads for 2024 (and added it to my books-i-recommend shelf, which hasn’t had an addition in quite a while). With this novel, Kate Quinn is back to what I think is fine form–group of women, something happened at time point 2, we are currently at time point 3, and will flip back and […]

something very satisfying about reading this as an actual book!

Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

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Hmm okay this can be a four star review, except that I do think that it dragged a bit in the middle and put it down (!!!) a handful of times, including once quite near the end to see whether I could get my hands on the next book in short order (as it turns out yes, I can) (thank you public libraries!). I noted this in my recent White Sands review, but this book has the turn towards the “okay, diplomacy and talking might […]

clare pooley is now on my to-read list, but also “break in case of emergency” list

How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

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Totally delightful book, read immediately, especially if you, like me, enjoyed Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting. But read that first, because if so there’s a little inside joke referencing Iona here! If I had to guess Pooley herself is likely working through some culturally imposed messaging around the worth of elderly (women) in a society that valorizes youth. She of course has explicit sources of inspiration for each novel–this one, in particular, came from reading about a (spoiler) by 60 year olds and wondering what it would […]

public libraries to the rescue

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

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Fun story: this book is massively backlogged at all my many libraries, but lo and behold it was just…sitting on the shelf at one of the local libraries that’s in consortium with my actual local (well, parent’s local) library. For some context, the library that had it is adjacent to another district that is much better funded with better schools, etc, which is a roundabout way of saying that I felt a bit like I should check there more often for books I’m searching for. […]

sex work can also be funny!

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

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UGH to recap my mid-book status update: what a FANTASTIC book-as-advertisement for the importance of comprehensive sex education in schools that focuses on both the benefits of long term reversible contraception as well as what healthy, mutually fulfilling sexual relationships look like! If Margo as a character wasn’t amusing and so forthright with her personal failings I’d have thrown this book at a wall. I’ll note that my review isn’t because I disliked the plot, even though I am explicitly on the record as disliking […]

breakups are funny

Good Material by Dolly Alderton

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What a hilarious, universal book (timely, too!) that deserves its spots on the NYT Best of 2024 list that I found it on. Turns out the only thing I needed to care about the inner musings of an emotionally circumscribed mid-30s mid dude was to have him be written by a mid-30s woman! This book reads like a fond, “hold my drink for a moment” cover of High Fidelity, with our main narrator Andy opening the book in the immediate aftermath of a breakup. After four and a […]



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