Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

We’re not separated from the world by our own edges.

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

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CBR15 PASSPORT (Stamp #7: New to me author) CBR15 BINGO (Adulthood square: four sisters figuring out their shit) This book has been touted as a re-telling of Little Women. If you squint a little, I guess it works. It is a book about complicated relationships between four sisters with a domineering mother and a mostly absent father (although not physically absent). Napolitano does even reference Little Women as the sisters try to figure out which Alcott sister they represent. Unlike the classic sisters though, Napolitano’s characters […]

I cannot live this way. I have nowhere to go. I have nobody to turn to. I am a nonsense.

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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CBR15PASSPORT (Stamp #6: Books recommended by friends. Namely ALL of you.) CBR15 BINGO: (Queer Lives square: queer author and queer characters.) What did I just read? I’m not mad about it. I’m glad that I read it but I have so many thoughts. So many thoughts that I’m not sure I can articulate them properly. So many thoughts that are DEFINITELY spoilery. For the 2 or 3 of you that haven’t read these books yet…please do. Don’t however, read this review because I think it […]

CBR15 Passport Challenge Mid Year Check-in

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Welcome to the mid year check-in for the CBR15 Passport challenge! You can see the challenges and rules here. This is a self directed, year-long challenge, so I’m noting the Cannonballers who have posted at least one Passport review, but not how many reviews. BlackRaven booktrovert carmelpie Debcapsfan ElCicco elderberrywine Jake jomidi kittenkong42 Leedock LittlePlat Malin Mobius_Walker narfna persnickity chick Pooja reginadelmar The Chancellor I hope the challenge is fun and motivating. If you have questions or suggestions for improvement, please tell me in the […]

An easy summer sampler of delightful and improbable scenarios

Best Women's Erotica of the Year (Best Women's Erotica Series Book 7) by Rachel Kramer Bussel

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CBR15Bingo: Bodies Bodies CBR15Passport: Recommended to me I have Emmalita and her review of Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 8 to thank for turning me onto this collection. Volume 7 did not disappoint. I keep trying to come up with a good metaphor using chocolate but I’m at a loss. After reading the first three short stories in linear fashion, I quickly learned that skipping around a bit was more suited to my reading style. Each story is self-contained, therefore it is easy […]

I was wholly unprepared for such tenderness and humor

For Real by Alexis Hall

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CBR15Bingo: Europe square CBR15Passport: Books from different countries (England) “A soft pulse of desire went through me, not for sex or pain or humiliation or some other release, but for this, this quiet closeness. Someone to hold in the dark.” ― Alexis Hall, For Real “What could I do with a boy who had brought me to my knees twice, yet still held my hand in the dark? What could I give in return for such kindness? Such faith? I would so gladly bear all […]

A porn star and a virgin walk into a bakery

Make You Mine (Running in Circles #1) by E.M. Lindsey

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CBR15Bingo: Edibles square CBR15Passport: New to me author Noah is a reluctant baker trying to keep his deceased bubbe’s beloved family bakery afloat. After leaving school to be the sole guardian and provider for his fourteen-year-old brother Adam, Noah believes he cannot survive losing another family member. As a young child, he and his family left Tel Aviv after the death of his father. Devastated, his mother never recovered and met her own tragic end. After losing his grandmother, twenty-year-old Noah makes a promise to […]



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