Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Because when you’re in a room, you’re the only thing I want to look at.

Freedom in Falling by J. Emery

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Freedom in Falling has a trope I don’t see often enough – prickly meets a different kind of prickly. West is the more traditionally prickly – grumpy and tightly wound. He keeps people at bay with frowns and coldness. Noah is prickly sunshine. He keeps people at a distance with bright colors, a performance of arrogance, and being kind of an asshole. Both of them are really soft disaster anxiety babies. I liked the way J. Emery unfolded their relationship – from the meet-disaster to […]

“Fine,” Caleb said, annoyed to discover that his complacency could be purchased with coffee and pie.

Peter Cabot Gets Lost by Cat Sebastian

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Cat Sebastian is always good, but Peter Cabot Gets Lost is a whole other level of Cat Sebastian goodness. She says in her author’s note that she wrote it in March 2020, just after the US went into lockdown. So she wrote about a cross country road trip.  It makes perfect sense. For all that Peter and Caleb are on the open road, there is a sense of isolation. They interact with very few people apart from each other. For as many miles as the […]

“No mistakes…” “just happy accidents”

With You Forever by Chloe Liese

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There’s a special feeling when you pick up a book by an author you’ve been reading for a while and you just know that they have relaxed into writing. In With You Forever, the fourth in the Bergman Brothers series, Chloe Liese feels like she’s hit her stride. The book is relaxed and confident. There were no moments when I felt like she had added something to the story because she thought it was required. It made reading this book like sinking into the most […]

You help me slay my dragons and I’ll help you slay yours.

The Dating Playbook by Farrah Rochon

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One of the things my favorite authors have in common is that they love their characters for who they are at any given minute of the story and not because they represent an idea, an architype, or a wish fulfilled. In The Dating Playbook, the second in the Boyfriend Project series, Farrah Rochon loves her characters.  She loves her three friends – Samiah, Taylor, and London. She loves Jamar. She lets them feel all their feelings, be indecisive, be sexy, be messy and always worthy […]

Titus smiled, “I met the woman I’m going to marry.”

Witch Please by Ann Aguirre

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I have been looking forward to Witch Please for months. I love Ann Aguirre’s books. She has gotten me through the last two years with some parts of my soul and sanity intact. On top of that already solid reason, Courtney Milan said she read Witch Please months ago and, well, the blurb is right there on the cover: “Sheer happiness in a book…”  How can you argue with that? You can’t. Fortunately, I got my hands on an arc and I have read it […]

I am a little obsessed with this loaf of bread

Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty, Simple by Dorie Greenspan

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I have been playing with Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty, Simple for a few months. I collect baking books and I have high expectations for Dorie Greenspan. Overall, I quite liked this book and there are four recipes in here that have become a part of my regular repertoire, which is a lot for an individual cookbook. My very very very very favorite recipe is the first recipe in the book – “The Daily Bread: White Bread Edition.” I first made it 4 months ago, […]



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