Anita Kelly – Cannonball Read 17

“Life is all about feeling too many different things at the same time. But you don’t have to figure it out right now.“

Donut Summer by Anita Kelly

July 24, 2025 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Anita Kelly’s YA debut, Donut Summer, has murdered me with adorable and relatable. It is funny and sweet, and deals with some serious topics in ways that feel realistic and manageable. Penny Dexter is ready to be a little bit different this summer, working at Delicious Donuts instead of an environmental science internship, and Mateo della Penna is going to screw it all up for her by working at Delicious Donuts too. The two have a history of not being friends, but Penny has cataloged […]

Love and Grief on the Oregon Coast

Heartwaves by Anita Kelly

July 20, 2024 by jessisreading Leave a Comment

Every Anita Kelly book I read is my new favorite, and this is the one currently holding the trophy. When we meet Mae, they have just spread their best friend’s ashes at the beach in a small Oregon town. Almost on a whim, she decides to move to this town—in part because she wants to be closer to Jesus (the friend, not the Lord), and in part because there’s a storefront for sale on Main Street. What better way to honor Jesus’s legacy than to […]

She was pretty sure she wasn’t experiencing cardiac arrest.

How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly

February 20, 2024 by Emmalita 3 Comments

I would read Anita Kelly’s grocery list. I loved How You Get the Girl. It’s just…perfect. Julie Parker is coaching a girls high school basketball team, which is fun and rewarding, but she feels adrift and left behind everywhere else in her life. Her twin sibling, London, from Love & Other Disasters, is in a committed relationship and is doing work they love. Her best friend, Ben, from Something Wild & Wonderful, is getting ready to move from Nashville to the Pacific Northwest to live with his love, […]

It’s not a bad decision to be happy.

Something Wild & Wonderful by Anita Kelly

February 19, 2023 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Anita Kelly has very quickly become one of my favorite writers. They are on my very short auto-buy list. If you haven’t picked up Kelly’s Moonlighter’s series, you should do that. They are short, sweet, and very queer. Something Wild & Wonderful is in the world of Love & Other Disasters, London and Delilah even make an appearance, but it is a stand alone in terms of plot. After being disowned by his parents and laid off from his job, Alexei is hiking the Pacific Crest […]

Food and smooching.

Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

November 2, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

Oh, dang, this book has fallen out of my brain since July. I remember that I was really charmed by it upon finishing, but it hasn’t really stuck with me. I’m sure if I picked it up again, the reasons why I liked it so much would come back to me, but it does justify for me not giving this five stars on the first go-round, because a five-star read really should be “sticky”. Our two main characters in this here romance are Delia, newly […]

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

Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

May 27, 2022 by wicherwill 2 Comments

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 […]

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