Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Gruff Irish farmer > Jealous hockey players

C*ck Blocked (Blockers Book 1) by K.C. Kassidy

Teamwork (Hot Ice # 4) by Lily Harlem

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CBR15Bingo – Picture This block In one book, the main character is a famous actor. In the other book, two main characters are professional athletes. CBR15 Passport: The book is set in Ireland. C*ck Blocked (Blockers Book 1) by K.C. Kassidy Gray, an American actor living in London, is wrapping up his final season as the straight heartthrob of a period television drama. He is happy in London and is mostly comfortable with his lot in life. However, as a next step, he wants to […]

Ancient spells and nonsense.

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

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CBR15 PASSPORT (Stamp #12: Different Genres, High Fantasy) Forging ahead with the Throne of Glass series. This is the second book and I’m still here for the world-building (I think). I can fly through these books pretty quickly and the plot is interesting enough to keep me going and yet…I’m finding them kind of fluffy and a wee bit repetitive. Not a great sign for book 2 in an 8 book series. I’m interested in how this world fits in with the other Maas book […]

…what terrified him even more was that he trusted her. And he didn’t know what that meant about himself.

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

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CBR15 PASSPORT (Stamp #11: Different Genres, High Fantasy)                                                                          CBR15 BINGO (Violence square: super violent gladiator situation/also the inner turmoil of a young woman trained to be violent from childhood) Not to get too spoilery, but it has become apparent that all three of Maas’ book series (Crown of Thorns […]

Here’s an interesting moment in any friendship. That time when one person has revealed something essential about themselves and the other must decide if they can accept it.

Lone Women by Victor Lavalle

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CBR15PASSPORT: (Stamp #10: Different Genres, Horror) CBR15BINGO: (Strange Worlds square: Lavalle specializes in infusing strange worlds into the real world.) I read Lavalle’s The Changeling a handful of years ago when it first came out. Like that novel, Lone Women is a story about something very essential wrapped up in a mixed genre blanket of fairy/folktale, horror, and in this case, western. While The Changeling was about postpartum depression and what it means to be a parent, Lone Women is, as the title implies, about […]

They had no idea what lay ahead, and maybe it was a good thing.

Where Coyotes Howl by Sandra Dallas

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CBR15PASSPORT (Stamp #9: New to me author) CBR15BINGO (North America square: about homesteading in Wyoming) When I saw a “highly recommend” quote on this book cover from Paulette Jiles that was all I needed to pull it from the library shelf. Note to self: I need to be a bit more wary of author endorsement quotes on book covers. It has taken me too long to learn that lesson the hard way. Looking for excitement and a challenge, a young woman moves from Iowa to the […]

A bee without a hive will die.

The Last Beekeeper by Julie Carrick Dalton

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CBR15 PASSPORT (Stamp #8: New to me author) CBR15 BINGO (Dwelling square: main character’s childhood home is an additional “character” in the novel) I gravitate toward interesting book covers and environmental fiction. This ticked both of those boxes. I’m a gardener and spending time poking around in my yard over some 20-odd years makes me hyper-aware of climate change. Annuals becoming perennials. Spring ephemerals showing up earlier and earlier. Late-season bloomers popping up in July instead of September. It’s hard to miss the changes. I’m in […]



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