Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
I always keep a running list on my phone of authors and book titles that other Cannonballers have loved, just in case I find myself at a library or a book sale and have some free time on my hands. I recently picked up two books by Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand, and Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating. I enjoyed both – they were cute and fun and enjoyable. So I figured this book would be more of the same. But. Ugh. […]
Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
I started a new job on the 28th and it is changing the trajectory of my Cannonba11 Read already. Lunch is an incredibly social time unlike my old gig where lunch was always guaranteed 45 minutes of reading time. I also stare at a computer screen for most of the day, unlike before, so I keep delaying writing my reviews. But I love you guys and have missed this little community so I’m trying to get back into the swing of things! I have been […]
My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren
This was one of the books I received for Jolabokaflod this year from my sister, and it was just the type of novel that I needed to escape to last weekend—an interesting group of friends, an academic setting, and a rather silly plot involving an online dating site. Millie Morris is a professor of criminology, specializing in female serial killers, at UC-Santa Barbara; she has a tightknit but eccentric group of male friends, all academics in different departments and all single. Reid and Ed are […]
My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren
3.5 stars. This was a solid, super fun read. Light and fluffy, easy to get through so it was a great palate cleanser after having a book hangover from The Heart’s Invisible Furies. Millie and her friend group were the perfect cure. Millie and her group of guy friends all work at UC Santa Barbara as professors/researchers and they’re all single. When a fancy university event looms on the horizon, they make a pact to all get dates for it by joining an online dating […]
My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren
This was the last book I read in 2018, after a week and a half of sloth and gluttony and travel and ZERO READING because it turns out if I exhaust all of my introverted tendencies with an overabundance of alcohol and sugar and family and friend time (which I love!) because we’re only home a few times a year so we have to SQUEEZE IT ALL IN, I have no brainpower left to read. It’s quite sad, really. I still feel a bit like […]
A few years ago, there was a book called The Hating Game that featured two people in competition for the same job and even as they pretended to hate each other, sparks were flying and it turned out they actually liked each other very much. Everyone loved that book. I kind of thought it was just okay although I tried very hard to like it. This book has a VERY similar premise and I like it much more. Rather than the romantic comedy contrivance of […]
