Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Unfortunately, I am too firmly on Team Charles to really enjoy this…

Younger by Pamela Redmond Satran

Older by Pamela Redmond

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“How are you going to be come a brand-new person if you keep acting like your same old self?”   “That was an aspect of youth I didn’t think, no matter how good my makeup or my acting skills, I’d be able to reclaim: the belief that if you were smart or ambitious enough, you could make your life turn out exactly as you wanted.” Fresh from her divorce—40 Something Alice needs to rejoin the workforce. Twenty years of being a stay at home mom […]

A few slow moments but overall worth pushing through

The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk

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BINGO – Free (picked up from my local library) Beatrice Clayborn must get married. She must. Getting married is the only way to save her family from financial ruin. But to get married means that she will have to give up her passion and goals: to become a great mage and the first female mage. Complicating her situation further is Ianthe Lavan, an extremely wealthy, handsome, compassionate man determined to win her hand in marriage, and his sister Ysbeta who wants the same things as […]

Remembering

Rememberings: Scenes From My Complicated Life by Sinead O’Connor

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Cbr13bingo Pandemic This book got a lot of attention when it was released a few months ago, largely because of a story O’Connor tells about Prince which puts him in a none-too-flattering light. As far as I’m concerned though this memoir is more impressive for the honesty and soul-bearing of its author. Full disclosure: I have been a fan of Sinead O’Connor since I first heard the single “Mandinka” in 1987/88. She is one of those female artists who have been kicked around over the […]

Mention it all

The Housewives: The Real Story Behind the Real Housewives by Brian Moylan

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Bingo: People Some people consider being a Real Housewives fan a character flaw, but I don’t need that kind of negativity in my life. I don’t consider watching them a guilty pleasure, because I feel no guilt about it (although I refuse to watch the truly heinous women of The Real Housewives of Orange County). The Housewives was meant to be a behind the scenes look at the series, with interviews with current and former cast members, by Brian Moylan, who has been recapping episodes for years, and […]

But she can’t help it. It’s too much reality for an almost-eight-year-old.

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman

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cbr13bingo Book Club I wanted to do a pure Bingo. Unfortunately, I could not get myself to read the book I picked, Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau (a choice of a book group that purchases their books via the bookstore I work at). Therefore, I went hunting for an “easy book club recommend” and found lots of books that just sounded hard. (I am not sure what they considered easy, but one list had several over 300 paged books on it.)  But, as we […]

Nick and Charlie Omnibus :)

Solitaire by Alice Oseman

This Winter by Alice Oseman

Heartstopper vol. 1 by Alice Oseman

Heartstopper vol. 2 by Alice Oseman

Heartstopper vol. 3 by Alice Oseman

Heartstopper vol. 4 by Alice Oseman

Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman

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After falling in love with Alice Oseman’s latest novel Loveless back at the start of the year, I decided to dive into her backlist and start reading everything she ever wrote. This didn’t quite go as planned with her debut Solitaire, but after that I found her graphic novels and now I am in love with Nick and Charlie. So here’s a bulk review of 1 novel, 4 graphic novels and 2 novellas. Solitaire *** Alice Oseman’s debut novel tells the story of Tori Spring, […]



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