Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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not what I thought, but I enjoyed it nonetheless!

When We Cease To Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

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This book varied wildly from story to story, and there were parts I liked a lot more than others. On the whole since the parts I liked were so very much a bullseye for “Things I Will Read 100% Of the Time,” I can forgive the parts between which were “Things I Will Roll My Eyes At And Abandon Books For.” Despite disliking non-fiction, historical non-fiction stories of science (or math) is my kryptonite. And as such, this novel–with its lightly (to heavily) embellished stories […]

Lauren Groff does it again in a totally different way

Matrix by Lauren Groff

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I did not know how much I needed a revisionist history of a 12th century nun crafted from the sparse known writings of a woman that some have identified as being Mary, abbess of Shaftesbury. Side note all British names are hilarious. In any case, from the barest outlines of a personal history Groff weaves a truly spectacular, somewhat Mary (ha) Sue-like fable of how ambition, queer longing (meh), and determination can turn a muddy, impoverished, cold abbey into a little feminist utopia. Groff apparently […]

Be (So) Over Him

I'm So (Not) Over You by Kosoko Jackson

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While I like fake relationship, and I reallly like “we broke up but have worked on our issues and are not back together because there was never another for us,” there’s something about the way it all came together which fell a bit short of the mark. I did the thing which I know I shouldn’t do and tried to skim some reviews to see if someone managed to nail the issue I had in their review, and of course there’s a brilliant reviewer who […]

in the same vein, but the opposite of a reality cooking tv show

Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

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I liked this book, and all the things it was and wasn’t. Was: a sapphic, small town, reunited after many years but not in a “we used to date and I have alwayssssssss loooooooooovvvedddddddd youuuuuuuuu I haveeee alwayssss loved you I have etc” type of way. Multiple female friends! Satisfying takedown you know is coming because this is fiction, not real life, and rich people haven’t stacked the deck everywhere. Wasn’t: a barrel of baggage (not a thing I want! ymmv!)–there’s a frisson of it, […]

I liked this more as an exercise in boundary pushing for me

Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

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Hmm unfortunately I think this novel is better as very enjoyable lesson in non-binary pronoun usage than a non-caveat-ed romance novel. But that is for me, because aside from queer rep (which we always love to see! More of it! Everywhere! All the time!) there’s a lot of tropes here that I don’t particularly enjoy. I also think I’m not very into the trope of cooking shows as backdrop to romance. Or cooking as a backdrop to romance, especially when both players are in the […]

And now, jump back hundreds and hundreds of years…

A Week to be Wicked by Tessa Dare

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I read this, along with what feels like every other Tessa Dare book that people (Malin!) recommended, in a short span of time when I was sitting in India, where I had ended up after a very confusing day when we all thought my grandmother was going to pass away (she wasn’t! she is all fine! it was a hilarious expensive miscommunication!). What better way to spend an unexpected week away slash impromptu family reunion other than with a series of historical romances? The conceit […]



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