Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“I don’t sulk; I brood. Like Batman.”

Work For It (Just For Him, #4) by Talia Hibbert

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Perfect book at the perfect time. This is only my second book read out of Talia’s backlist (we are on a first-name basis apparently) and it was just as good as I’d hoped it would be. I haven’t read any of the other books in this series, but I probably will now that I’ve met some of the other characters and liked them, and vibe going on here. I don’t know if they will live up to this one, though. I was thisclose to giving this […]

Trying to Chef to Hard

Crave: Recipes Arranged by Flavour to Suit Your Mood by Ed Smith

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I appreciate the concept of Crave: Recipes Arranged by Flavour to Suit Your Mood in organizing itself by flavor combination profiles like “fresh and fragrant”, “tart and sour”, chilli and heat”, “spiced and curried”, “rich and savoury”, and “cheesy and creamy”. I like the focus on the idea that not all comfort food is mac and cheese; nothing against that, but sometimes you just want something like “honeyed halloumi with apricot fregola” or “orange blossom melon with frozen raspberries”. I also appreciate that in spite […]

“That’s the thing with putting yourself out of your comfort zone: once you get there, you’re like, Now I’m uncomfortable, what am I supposed to be doing?” #CBRBINGO – Libations

Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (Winner Bakes All, #1) by Alexis Hall

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 5/30 I had a really good time with this. But also fuck Alain. So this is a romance set in a famous British reality baking show, very much like The Great British Bake Off. Our heroine is Rosaline, a twenty-seven year old bisexual single mother of an eight year old daughter. Rosaline meant to become a doctor, but an unplanned pregnancy derailed that career choice and now she works in a shop, and bakes in her free time. The […]

“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, #2) by C.S. Lewis

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 1/30 I don’t know why I decided that in June* I would read essentially a book a day, but I decided I wanted to see if I could do it. I have, of course, stacked the deck a little with shorter novels, romances, audiobooks, etc, but I have given myself space to read some chonkers as well. Let’s see if I can do it! *So behind in reviews :(((( My re-visitation of the Chronicles of Narnia opens this challenge. […]

“The sun is up, the skies are blue, and murder is in the air.”

The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1) by Richard Osman

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This really hit the spot, and it had a lot more emotional depth than I was expecting from it! I think I was expecting something more on the cozy mystery side of things, something lightweight, and it did have a bit of that feel to it as well. But this also had a larger scope than a cozy mystery, way more characters, and a lot more focus on uncozy things, sad and emotional things—like accepting death and dying, the realities of getting older, dealing with […]

I am sad to report that ‘Tasting Captain America’, the fanfic Eve mentions reading on AO3, is not real.

Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3) by Talia Hibbert

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What a fun time. I’m going to be three for three on this series for writing inadequate reviews for how much I enjoyed them. I have not yet been satisfied by anything I have written about Talia Hibbert’s books. It escapes me how to write about them. I will say, for the first half of this book (an excellent example of the hate to love trope), this was shaping up to be my favorite of the three books. The enmity between Jacob and Eve was […]



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