Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I’ve been reading a ton, but just don’t feel like writing, so here’s a review dump.

You'd Be Mine by Erin Hahn

Regretting You by Colleen Hoover

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

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Reader, I’ve been reading a bunch of random books, with absolutely no direction in my life. Sitting at home and just trying to get out of my own head by getting into someone else’s. These are three of them. I liked some better than others, but they all had interesting bits. Here they are, in order of least favorite to most beloved. You’d Be Mine was a random Kindle download I picked up when the whole RWA thing blew up, and I had seen Erin […]

An ode to punctuation, or erotica for grammar geeks

Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston

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Supporting players against a sea of commas, exclamation points, and other heroes of the written word, These quiet champions of our language get the spotlight thanks to Keith Huston’s Meticulous research and witty pen. Like gentle pilcrow, Who started as “kaput” Then changed to  “c” To mark the start of each new paragraph.     ‘Til rubricators came along to flourish her: thus, the backwards P was born. Live on, Pilcrow, in proofers’ marks and MS Word, though hidden as you are behind your secret […]

Many Americans right now are acting like Jeevan in the snowstorm. Life is imitating art.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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I didn’t really know what to expect going into this.  I knew that Cannonball peeps (and other people I know) had raved about it, so I assumed it was going to be good.  And it still wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. (I need to stop going into things with expectations.)    Station Eleven has a linear story that’s been cut up and rearranged with one character being the lynchpin that holds it all together.  We start with a Toronto production of […]

A debut romance that is MUCH better than its painfully pink cover would indicate

A Wicked Kind of Husband by Mia Vincy

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4.5 stars Official book description: Cassandra DeWitt has seen her husband only once—on their wedding day two years earlier—and this arrangement suits her perfectly. She has no interest in the rude, badly behaved man she married only to secure her inheritance. She certainly has no interest in his ban on her going to London. Why, he’ll never even know she is there. Until he shows up in London too, and Cassandra finds herself sharing a house with the most infuriating man in England. Joshua DeWitt […]

The dog on the cover doesn’t really feature much in the story

Trust Me on This by Jennifer Crusie

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3.5 stars Official book description: Dennie Banks is an investigative reporter chasing down the biggest story of her career. Alec Prentice is a government agent working undercover to catch an elusive grifter. When they meet by accident, it’s a case of mistaken identities at first sight. What they don’t mistake is the instant attraction they have for each other, an attraction they’ll do everything in their power to resist—because Dennie thinks that Alec is running interference for her interview subject, and Alec suspects that Dennie […]

Another regretfully rather forgettable Linden romance

Six Degrees of Scandal by Caroline Linden

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Official book description: Olivia Townsend is in trouble and out of options. Pursued by a dangerous man in search of a lost treasure she doesn’t possess, she’s got only two things in her favor: her late husband’s diary, which she was never meant to see… and the man who was her first—and only—love. Losing him broke her heart, though she’s been careful to hide it for the last ten years. But when he comes to her aid and vows to stand by her, no matter […]



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