Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“You can’t add to the list!” I’m aghast. “It’s laminated.”

Promise Me Sunshine by Cara Bastone

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Lenny is drowning in grief. She can function just enough to take short term babysitting gigs, but not more. Miles is trying to connect with his sister and niece and failing. The two make a deal, Miles will keep Lenny from drowning and Lenny will teach Miles how to befriend his niece, Ainsley. The result is a tender, slow burn romance, that explores so many facets of love. When Lenny and Miles have their first kiss, it feels epic, and earned. And then, in true […]

Thank you for letting someone else remember this moment, treasure it with a hand against my belly.

Ready or Not by Cara Bastone

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Well this was lovely and exactly what I needed in this moment. Fellow Cannonballer LB was asking in another group we share what to call a surprise pregnancy trope. I realized that I also had an arc of the book they were asking about, and that I desperately wanted to read a surprise pregnancy book. For reasons, I had been thinking a lot about two recent deaths that I hadn’t allowed myself to mourn because my relationships with both people were so complicated and thorny. […]

I seldom find what I’m looking for in romance novels, but I keep trying them anyway

Just A Heartbeat Away by Cara Bastone

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My wife first read Cara Bastone three years ago, and convinced me to give Call Me Maybe a shot. I loved it. We then downloaded this book from Audible and started listening to the audiobook on a trip we took. I got into it, but she didn’t. So we turned the book off, and I never really went back to it. Well, I just wrapped up a pretty heavy book last week, and took a vacation in Georgia this week, so I needed something to […]

Some Audible Originals

Sweet Talk by Cara Bastone

What the Hex by Alexis Daria

The Magic Flower Shop by Gina Mayer

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Sweet Talk By Cara Bastone   This story was absolutely adorable and I loved it!     The main premise is that Elliot sends a voice message text at 2 a.m. to a wrong number.  JD (not her real name, but what she’s referred to for most of the story) is already awake to receive said voice text.  She responds, and they go back and forth before Elliot realizes that he hasn’t been talking to his sister.  JD knows who Elliot is immediately – she had […]

Modern Day Epistolary Romances

Call Me Maybe by Cara Bastone

Sweet Talk by Cara Bastone

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I’m struggling right now with three reviews. Two of them are fantastic books that give me a lot of feelings I’m trying to translate into words. One of them is for a book that has disappointed me and I’m trying to find 250 words to say “White feminism is bad.” When I get stuck like this, the best thing for me to do is to write low stakes reviews about books I enjoyed. I listened to Cara Bastone’s Love Lines series while engaged in a […]

Realizing that I need to review some of these books so that I remember I actually read them this year.

The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams

Call Me Maybe by Cara Bastone

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Every year I keep a long list of the books that I read during CBR that I didn’t have a chance to review. Looking at the very long list for 2020 made me realize that if I don’t write down my thoughts (as I have for the past 11 years), I will never remember that I read any of these. Ergo, here are some smaller reviews, wrapped up in a larger review. I hope to spit a few of these out before CBR13 starts! The […]



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